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Canadian Daves JustKDX
Any alternative to expensive stock bolts?
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[QUOTE="Clutch, post: 104233, member: 16182"] Thanks for the link. But I don't know what I'm looking for when I go to a web site like that, or when I go to an auto supply or industrial supply place. Buykawasaki.com doesn't really help, I looked at their diagram before I went to the shop. It just has the part numbers, not their dimensions. Neither does the workshop manual. I hope people can learn from my dumbass experience and we can swap some info about how to solve these hassles, because I know everybody loses bolts. Where are you getting replacements? Personally, I like to replace them with bolts that look exactly like what I lost, because otherwise, the "fit and finish" of the bike decreases when you start to swap in bolts that don't really look right, know what I mean? Things don't fit as well, and your bike starts to look ratty with all these different kinds of bolts on it. Imagine trying to sell your bike and it has all these weird bolts on it and it looks homemade. Hahaha! I went to Ace Hardware, but all they have are the usual hex-head bolts. The sprocket bolts are Allen head bolts, and the head of the bolt is a weird shape. It tapers. So even if I did find the right size bolt and right thread pitch, the head of those bolts won't fit properly. It comes down to: do I want to spend an afternoon looking up phone numbers in the phone book, calling them, trying to give them an accurate description of the bolt, them saying "Sure, we have it, come on down", then when I get there, the bolts they have look nothing like mine. OR just saying the hell with it and going to Kawasaki and feeling like a huge jackass for paying that much for a bolt. I spent the money on it because I didn't want to keep riding with 5 out of 6 bolts on the sprocket, because more bolts will start to rattle loose, then the next thing I know, I land from a little jump and hear a terrible sound and my sprocket falls off and the rear wheel hub is warped or something, and I don't even want to THINK about what a hub costs. I have run into a similar problem looking for a crush washer for the brake hose. I smacked the rear caliper on a rock a few months back, snapping the stock plastic caliper guard directly in two, and also causing a leak at the hose right where the crush washer is. Well, I went all over the place, to Pep Boys, Ace Hardware, Supply Stores, etc, looking for this little 2-cent crush washer. The washers I found were either too thick, too wide, the hole was too big, or the brass was too hard and it didn't "crush" like a crush washer should. Again, I said screw it, and went to Kawasaki. The cost for one of those teeny little crush washers? $2.10! I know some people are laughing, but it really is hard to find an exact fit for these parts. :think [/QUOTE]
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