Blue and white.
I've been collecting parts for ages. But nearly there now.
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My toys 85 KXT250A2, 85 ATC250R, 85 Tri-z 250, 06 LT-R450, 04 YFZ450S, 07 125 typhoon x 3, 06 FPV GT.
Haven’t been able to do much on this and enjoying one of those rare periods in my life when everything I own that’s powered by gas is running, so I continue to polish things that don’t need polishing while I wait on parts.
The swing arm bushings were ready today. Still haven’t got a clear design in my head. I’m going to have to decide if the shock is going to remain offset, of be moved to the centerline of the frame.
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Geez Mr. Suave, you are bored! Looking nice. It's a compulsion now, isn't it? Everything must be polished. You can't stop now.
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True statement. When polished, then anodized, the finished product will look like colored chrome. Do your homework though. When put through an identical anodizing process, different types or grades of aluminum, will result in different coloring results. Parts milled from billet aluminum will turn out the best, and cast aluminum will come out the worst.
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Picked up enough parts this week to start making sparks. Unfortunately some dummy ordered 10” diameter rims and 8” diameter tires, that’s not going to work.
This Banshee axle looks pretty wide. Any opinions on how wide is too wide in the dunes?
It looks like I might get real lucky on the sprocket alignment. As best as I can guess at the moment it’s going to be almost exactly in line with the KTM drive sprocket without offsetting the hub, or shimming the rear sprocket.
Last edited by El Camexican; 07-26-2018 at 07:03 PM.
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Not sure what a tri-z would feel like but I personally like around 48" or less on my Rs and tecate. Too wide makes it feel weird imo.
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If I use what I have now I'll end up close to 52". I may end up having to flip the rims around, that would get me down to 46", but would look odd. I could also use stock hubs, that would get me down to 49" with the rims on the proper way.
Anyone here running over 50" wide?
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You gonna cut up the ktm swinger or just built a new one?
Build from scratch.
The KTM bike swinger is aluminum and the KTM quads are steel, so no mixing and matching options there. Splicing cast aluminum of unknown grades is something I had no desire to experiment with and the only guy I know that I would trust to weld it up lives in Canada. Besides that the KTM bike uses an offset rear PDS shock with no link, so welding on a Yamaha or Honda ATV rear onto the aluminum KTM swinger would have required running a link in the center. The center location might still happen if I can figure out the air box, but the engineering needed to position a link shock set-up does not appeal to me.
The steel front pivots are shown in post #64. JJ and A supplied the rear pinch sleeve parts and carrier. I picked up some 3" X 1" .075" wall rec. tube the other day thinking I would split it and transition it from 3" to 2" from the rear to the front, but as I want to use the KTM chain slider that doesn't work for a number of reasons (For the record it would have looked really cool).
Today's mind wanderings are about a 1"sq tube trestle styled swinger that can act as a skid plate as well. Whatever I end up doing I want it to be one-off, strong and light in that order.
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Can't you rotate one 360 and it will look like the other side.