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I aint rattlin sheeit

If ya can't post without a whole sheeit load of jumbled up crap why bother

Oh yeah, I see that. I bet he's a total blast to hang out with though.

Still, grammar lessons would not be bad.

I will put together a big post from the perspective of owning a KDX and wnting to do a swap. Is there a size limit or picture limit per post?

halfta go to skool fer that, I din't lyke skool much, I wer always outbak smokin dat wacky-weed

ebeck wrote:I will put together a big post from the perspective of owning a KDX and wnting to do a swap. Is there a size limit or picture limit per post?

shee-it I guess the HIJACK is over eh?

Where are the pics hosted? No limit per se....

On Imageshack. Some sites give a pacture limit. I a guessing 20 or so pics and a page or maybe 2.

Best to break them up... some folks don't have broadband...

I'll author it in text, give it to you and you can organize it and sticky it. Will that work?

You can do a Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 etc... all being separate posts.

This is really cool, I've been considering using my 93 motor for a swap. I've been poking around looking for a rolling kx chasis with a blown motor.
I've heard of some other guys swaping a KDX motor into a CR frame saying that it was even easier than the KX swap. Don't know if that's true.
Keep it coming this is gonna be great!!!

In some ways yes it is true, but it depensa on the year CR. Pick the wrong year CR and the swingarmm will not clear the engine cases. The 02 CR250 works well, or so he said. I kow a guy who did it. I think that was the year.

Anyhow The posts are out thre now. I hope they get stickied as they are in a row.

Ebeck, this is awesome stuff. It's generous to share the pictures alone, now we have all the details . . .

Thanks a mil !!

I'll second that Ebeck, great walkthru!!!

Yes, Thanks a bunch! I don't think I will actually do this swap, but If i wanted to, I could!

Yeah no problem guys, I hope more do it. No sense in keeping the information to myself. It is pretty easy and I can offer help when needed.

Now someone else do the swap!

Most of you guys already have the forks, right? And Shocks aren't expensive, I've seen nice 125/250 shocks go for >$100 all day.

Yep, check out Part 1. I talk about that. it is actually econimical to do. Down time can be bad, but do it in the summer be up fior the fall/winter riding season.

As far as cost goes, read Part 1.

I've got a spare KDX and a KX125 and am really tempted to do this job. What is there to loose?

Why not keep the KDX swingarm with the KDX motor in the KX frame? It looks like the outside width is the same from KX to KDX.

Yes, it is you are right about that. Good observation. In terms of keeping the swing arm, the swing arm pin in the frame would then need to be shimmed. The KDX has 15mm vs KX 17mm swingarm pin. Additionally, the KDX swingarm may be shorter and the linkage mount points and geometry are likley different as well. If you are not carfull you can wind up with bound linkage or things along those lines.

The KX swibngarm is quite cheap, (used) and in general is is best to keep that. The bike will perform and handle like it is a factory bike. It is quite easy to bild a bilke that performs poorly. A bike is more than just parts together. They work as a system.

The posts seem long but that is becasue I covered alot of detail. Really it is quite simple. Knowing what I know now I could knock it out pronto. Since I documented it you should be able to do it as well. If you stray from what I did you could run into gotchas. what I did took alot of trial and error.

Just my thought on that. I'd stick with the KX swingarm.