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« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2005, 08:28:39 AM »
Mine broke once a few years back,welded up the bracket and made my own rubber pipe mount.No more breakage yet,maybe because of the rubber mount I made,or could be your not alighneing the brackert to the pipe mount when you weld it?
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« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2005, 11:27:26 AM »
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Gowen;
I hate to say, you are right!
I checked mine tonight, just to see that it had broke "AGAIN!!!" :twisted:

I don't have time to fab up some thing cool yet.
So I'm going to have to come up with some thing simple.
And if it works, I'll let you guys know!


I was out at the track this past sunday and my d**n mount broke again too. I will fab it again too.  :roll: Tis' about what I've been doing for a few years.
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« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2005, 02:41:37 PM »
Man this sucks!
I do have a rubber mount @ .5 thick.
I'm using a cheap home mig welder.
I might take to my shop, and  use the good stuff... ?
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« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2005, 02:44:08 PM »
the last weld I did with my home mig. The one before I had done at a welding shop.
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« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2005, 03:38:23 AM »
Guy's,

I'll try to get a picture of the square mount I made this weekend or early next week. Right now I'm in KeyWest,FL working so I'm out of pocket. The guy at our shop had a problem using a mig welder to attach the new steel mount to the frame. But the stick worked great.
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« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2005, 04:26:59 AM »
That would be great Hughes!
Thanks man!!!
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« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2005, 05:29:54 AM »
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Do all KX5's have this problem or do you guys have similar years or maybe older models? Seems like if it was a big problem then Kawi wouldve caught on to it and maybe corrected it on later models... I'm just curious to know for my own personal knowledge.


They all seem to do it, one cure is to use the Zipty kit Tank/shrouds and expansion chamber combo shich doesn't even use the top pipe mount anyway :D

Expensive though :(
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« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2005, 03:51:40 PM »
I just welded it AGAIN!
I'm going riding the weekend, so that's what has to work for now.
Then I was thinking of making the bar that runs from the uper mount
to the pipe out of a thermo platic like Nylitron, Ryton, or Nylitron GS.
And keeping the rubber in there as well.
Might be wroth a try???
Don't have much to lose I guess???
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« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2005, 06:42:19 PM »
Ive heard the reference to "Zip Ty" alot around here but dont know much about it/them. Is there a web site I could check out?
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« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2005, 09:53:44 PM »
Zip-Ty is Ty Davis company (his dad owns Terry Cable) and Ty used to race Team Kawasaki,was real fast on any bike 125,250,500,desert,MX,hare hound you name it hes done it. www.ziptyracing.com
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« Reply #25 on: January 23, 2005, 03:31:28 AM »
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Ive heard the reference to "Zip Ty" alot around here but dont know much about it/them. Is there a web site I could check out?


The Zip Ty kit looks like this
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« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2005, 03:56:42 AM »
Is there really no need for the upper mount then????

I don't have the $$$ to go out and buy a new Ztp-Ty kit.
And my wife would kick my _$$ if I did......  :oops:
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« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2005, 04:35:45 AM »
Mine has broke a couple of times. I have 6 or so rides since the last repair and so far so good.
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« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2005, 04:50:54 AM »
How did you repair it???
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« Reply #29 on: January 23, 2005, 05:22:36 AM »
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Is there really no need for the upper mount then????

I don't have the $$$ to go out and buy a new Ztp-Ty kit.
And my wife would kick my _$$ if I did......  :oops:


I bought mine secondhand from another member and my girfriend was dead chilled about the deal :D

By the way the pics not of my bike I think it's Toddwunche's (sp?) I don't have recent photos of mine.
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