Hey Fellas,
Long story short:
Boy blew the motor on his KX85 which resulted in complete teardown of bike to powdercoat, repair, etc....
I have the lower linkage off of the rear shock and every needle bearing tossed its cookies! I basically stood there with the linkage as it puked out every needle out of every bearing in there? What the hell!! :yikes:
So the first question is - Do they just fall apart like that? No, that can't be it. They must have all been fubar'd and by disassembling the linkage, I let all the messed up bearings fall to pieces.
Once I get a new linkage bearing kit (holy crap this bike is starting to financially hurt now) Is it safe to chill the bearings, heat the aluminum linkage and tap them in or are they too fragile for that sort of exercise? I do not own a press and I really don't want to incur yet another expense to get this bike back up and running.
And finally, who makes these bearing kits? I found one on fleabay but they don't have one for a 2003 KX85.
TIA Folks,
Cheers
Bernie
Long story short:
Boy blew the motor on his KX85 which resulted in complete teardown of bike to powdercoat, repair, etc....
I have the lower linkage off of the rear shock and every needle bearing tossed its cookies! I basically stood there with the linkage as it puked out every needle out of every bearing in there? What the hell!! :yikes:
So the first question is - Do they just fall apart like that? No, that can't be it. They must have all been fubar'd and by disassembling the linkage, I let all the messed up bearings fall to pieces.
Once I get a new linkage bearing kit (holy crap this bike is starting to financially hurt now) Is it safe to chill the bearings, heat the aluminum linkage and tap them in or are they too fragile for that sort of exercise? I do not own a press and I really don't want to incur yet another expense to get this bike back up and running.
And finally, who makes these bearing kits? I found one on fleabay but they don't have one for a 2003 KX85.
TIA Folks,
Cheers
Bernie