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Offline alward25

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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #45 on: March 05, 2013, 08:11:13 AM »
ditch them, i thought you wanted the inner cover, i have a spare outer like that one.
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #46 on: March 05, 2013, 08:12:46 AM »
the 89 kx250 clutch cover looks nice and round. but too bad its discontinued :(
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #47 on: March 05, 2013, 08:21:12 AM »
Quote from: Motorrad on March 05, 2013, 08:08:56 AM
Depends on if your making bread, or just slicing bread

For right now I'm making bread.
If I make the bread I think I would keep the profile but skip making the holes as you would not have the alignment pins anyway.
If I decide to slice the bread at some point in the future the holes and pins would already be there.
But I'm always open to suggestions when it comes to baking..
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #48 on: March 05, 2013, 08:29:53 AM »
Quote from: alward25 on March 05, 2013, 08:11:13 AM
ditch them, i thought you wanted the inner cover, i have a spare outer like that one.

I looked at using an inner cover from the 450 and just playing sliced bread with it to make it fit to the KX500 clutch cover.
But, the more I looked at it the more I think that making a simple adapter would be the best way top go.
At this point my goal is to make adapter rings that others could take to a local fab shop and say, cut the outside of this cover off to "X" height from the base, weld this on to finish at "X" height, make sure it doesn't leak, bolt the cover of choice on it (As long as it is from a 06 or newer KX450F) and go ride.
I think in the future I may try the sliced bread method but for now I want the easiest solution.
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #49 on: March 05, 2013, 08:32:35 AM »
my boyeson cover i bought for my klx 450 had me remove the alignment pins.  It seals fine without them.
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #50 on: March 05, 2013, 08:41:03 AM »
Quote from: alward25 on March 05, 2013, 08:32:35 AM
my boyeson cover i bought for my klx 450 had me remove the alignment pins.  It seals fine without them.

Good to know.
Thanks!
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #51 on: March 05, 2013, 09:16:10 AM »
In fact, what I'm thinking about would look a lot like these:



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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #52 on: March 05, 2013, 10:13:18 AM »
perfect!!!!!
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #53 on: March 05, 2013, 10:45:18 AM »
In the pictures it is at 1" thick.
It will be about 3/8" thinner then shown in an effort to keep the cover as close to the stock width as possible.
I have the preliminary blue prints at a machine shop to give me a quote on a production run of 10.
So at least we will have a rough idea...
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #54 on: March 05, 2013, 10:58:48 AM »
In the above pics the adapter is about 3/8" too thick.
Here is a better idea of how it will look.





I might be able to shave another 1/8" off the outer section but I need to do some checking first.
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #55 on: March 05, 2013, 01:58:47 PM »
Quote from: sandblaster on March 05, 2013, 10:45:18 AM
In the pictures it is at 1" thick.
It will be about 3/8" thinner then shown in an effort to keep the cover as close to the stock width as possible.
I have the preliminary blue prints at a machine shop to give me a quote on a production run of 10.
So at least we will have a rough idea...

only 10.... I call dibs...
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #56 on: March 05, 2013, 02:06:36 PM »
I got dibs on one of the 10!!  Whats a "Flying M" motor without some Team Green Bling Bling!!
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #57 on: March 05, 2013, 02:41:01 PM »
After I get one made and verify how awesome it is (or isn't) we can put together a list of how many we need and go from there.
I just had to give the shop a number to get started with.
If we need more, we'll get more.
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #58 on: March 05, 2013, 02:44:47 PM »
Quote from: sandblaster on March 05, 2013, 02:41:01 PM
After I get one made and verify how awesome it is (or isn't) we can put together a list of how many we need and go from there.
I just had to give the shop a number to get started with.
If we need more, we'll get more.

I want mine by next week.......is that gonna be a problem sandblaster? :-D
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Re: 2 piece clutch cover
« Reply #59 on: March 05, 2013, 02:54:59 PM »
Next week?
I thought you guys were in a hurry?  :-o
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