Hey Guys
I'm going to be rebuilding my KX500 again First time I rebuilt it the crank was w/ out of true.... quickly wiped the main bearings. So, sent the crank off to Arizona, got it trued / rebalanced. Excited to see how it will run with the rebalanced / trued crank!!
Anyways,
Who do you guys think makes the best crank bearings?
Also, there is a crank alignment / installation tool - the wedge shaped tool that slides between the crank counterweights, so you can press the crank into the righthand case w/o disturbing the crank alignment
Do you guys ever use that? I know that if you freeze the crank, and put the RH case in the oven (with the bearing installed of course), the two go together fairly easy, but I've got a press, and I thought about doing the freeze / heat process but still using the press to install the crank in the RH case... so I'd need that tool
Is it worth the extra hassle doing it that way? Seems to me that anything that can be done to ensure crank alignment would be a GOOD thing
thanks!!
IR