Recent content by nickklugs

My friends dad owns a custom-light-fixture-making shop and they have a small lathe. I bet it would be substantial enough to do aluminum and perhaps mild steel? I'll check it out. Also I know I have talked about this already but if I made a little frame jig out of square steep that would just...

:shootme: So it's been a while. I need a few spacers made and every machine shop that I contacted wants around $1000 for the spacers. So I don't know what to do. That's way to much for me. I need a weird bearing that is 28mm x 48mm x 13mm taper roller bearing and no one seams to sell one...

Just a little update. I ordered the wrong steering bearings and after checking they don't seam to have the right sizes, so I have decided to use the stock bearings and get the races machined a little. I can't do any machining or anything till my friend gets back in a few days :thumbsdown:.

Subframe gone and steering bearings ordered.

I will also be trying to use the stock xs wheels because I like the look of the drum brakes and besides, who needs brakes that work?

Here it is all mocked up. I raised the back of the tank and tilted the bike back a little bit in order for the shock to fit. I will be making a new subframe.

I think it's about time for me to start a dang build thread. I have a 76" XS 360-2d. I bought it for $40 off Craigslist about a year ago. The bike had sat in this persons drive way for 5 years without a cover or tarp or anything, to add to that apparently they found it in San Fransisco in an...

I'll try :thumbsup:

P.P.S. I figured out a way to use the stock shock by tilting the bike back a bit and raising the tank. I am also going to to fabricate my own new subframe. So it should be pretty cool. I also have the subframe that came with the KX frame so when all else fails I can bolt that one on.

P.S. Thank you a ton, those replies were very useful and made me not make any big stupid mistakes.

Well you are correct about me not having a frame jig, but my friends dad does have a machine shop so I think I will be doing some work to make the stock head tube and triple clamps fit together. Infact all I really need is a spacer and the stem to be modified a little bit and it would work...

Thank you a lot. That's a lot of useful info. I may have to do some more research :shootme: As for the front end I am using the stock inverted forks from the KX. I am gonna chop the head tube off the KX and weld it onto the xs maybe... I might try and get custom bearings, but I would need to...

Alright. Thank you. Yeah I am thinking of using an r6 shock possibly.

Hello, I have a 76' xs360 that I am making into a scrambler/dual sport machine. I have a swing arm from a 93' KX250 and the stock shock that came with it is about 18" long and that just doesn't fit... at all. So I need a shock that's about 15" or 380mm or something around that size, does anyone...