YZ KYB Conversion

[Hooligan]

Triples went off to the welder today. I suspect the bolts would hold the aluminum blocks in place no problem but some welds will ensure the blocks don't move.

The blocks were not difficult to made although fitting everything together took a bunch of tweaking and back and forth to the milling machine. But in the end it worked out very well.

[(F5)]

Good stuff, easy once its done you wonder why you worry before starting thing like this

[Hooligan]

LOL

I think the biggest thing is just deciding how it should get done. In this case there were two options but its so much easier when someone can say how it has been done. Then the way is known and it just comes down to execution.

The steering stem bearings were pretty simple but more expensive than I had expected. The bottom bearing is the same and doesn't need changing but the top bearing is not a common size so the only source was direct from All Balls, which killed me on shipping. Ended up being a $70 cdn part by the time it got here.

Now just need to sort out the fork internals. Unfortunately the forks we got were from a YZ (MX bike) but will be used on an enduro bike so a bit of work needs to be done to get the spring rates and valving sorted.

The nice thing is that the SSS forks are quite easy to work on with only a couple of special tools required. I always hated servicing damping rod forks.

[(F5)]

Really I thought it was common upper, just certain through bike shop for not much.

A mate is local KTech technician, they have a cross country valving setup and it's been hardly worth a click here or there, it just works for me in either choppy or tree roots or just giving my arms an easy time which was getting to be an issue for me.

[Zman]

When I put the yz450f front end on my 2000, I needed to change one bearing. As I recall it was a pretty common wheel bearing and I bought it at the auto parts store. I am sorry I do not recall the number.

[Hooligan]

Originally Posted by (F5)

Really I thought it was common upper, just certain through bike shop for not much.

A mate is local KTech technician, they have a cross country valving setup and it's been hardly worth a click here or there, it just works for me in either choppy or tree roots or just giving my arms an easy time which was getting to be an issue for me.

Maybe "not common" wasn't the right terminology but I couldn't find it on eBay, Amazon or Fortnine. The only source I could find was direct from All Balls.

Originally Posted by Zman

When I put the yz450f front end on my 2000, I needed to change one bearing. As I recall it was a pretty common wheel bearing and I bought it at the auto parts store. I am sorry I do not recall the number.

I was actually talking about the upper steering stem bearing.

Luckily the YZ front axle is smaller than the GasGas axle so the GasGas front wheel can be used on the YZ axle with only a new set of spacers.