I haven’t blogged about my project for a few weeks. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t do any work on it, just no time to sit down and blog about it. Plus this takes discipline and I am still working on mine.
I’ve spent some dollar also. I had to get a new front axle, which was not a problem. The axle holder bracket however was a challenge. The part is not manufactured any longer and the junk yards and the vintage gurus on the internet were no help. The picture of the part is below:
After ordering the part twice for different KZ models with no luck, I ended up modifying the bracket from a KZ450. By making the holder fit on the front fork I had to make sure that the axle will stay put, I drilled a hole through the end of the axle on the side of the bracket (left) and put a locking pin through it.
I traded the stock gas tank to a 2.2 liter small custom peanut shape tank and some other spare parts for a 14” handle bars and decided to do a mock up roller assembly. I started by making steering bearings using bearing grease and loose bearing balls, which I ordered on line. They were like $4 for a hundred of each size. I needed two sizes:
After that was complete I followed with the assembly of the front end and the wheel, rear shocks , rear wheel and the handle bars. Mocked up the tank and this is what turned out:
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