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Hi i am after a bit of advice please, could anyone that knows about cranks please tell me how they clean out the small oil ways jet type thingys in the crank? do you drill out the jets and replace them or just poke and clean until happy? Sorry to ask but i am about to do this job and only...

Con rod lenght for different years? 650 2001? 650 2003? 650 2004? 628 2005?

hi guys, last week i heard a clicking noise coming out of the engine.. then i noticed that my left exhaust was unscrewed so what a relief i said and screwed it to make it stop :roll: it didnt stop so to prevent any further damage i split it to find out the problem. turns out that con rod...

It is with heavy heart I report Rod Bush of KTM SportMotorcycles USA has succumbed to Cancer. He was a good man and will be sorely missed. GodSpeed Rod. Dale Note: A man of integrity and true grit. Even during the darkest days of Husaberg Rod always stepped up to the plate. When Husaberg...

Hi All, I am toying with the idea of destroking my 650 back to a 550 but need to know if this is viable. I need to obtain the rod lengths, piston compression heights and case heights of the new generation vertically split engines in all their variants to ascertain if I can...

Does anybody know how thick the top end rod bushing is supposed to be on a 95 and later 600? I just took mine apart and there was no bushing but i am told that there is supposed to be. the piston seemed really loose on the rod and there was some bad wear on the wrist pin so maybe it was left out...

in my continued effort to extract more from my little FE400e i ask for the following info: what length centre to centre is the 400 rod i have. i know that the L/E is 18mm and that all the larger models have a 20mm L/E. have they made a rod (say for the earlier 501's) that is 1mm longer...

Hi, Question for all the motor gurus. I'm looking to get a squish clearance closer to ideal with an off the shelf piston, and assumed that I could go the route of using a 501 rod kit (Stated as being longer) to get to a zero deck height. But, appearently my bike already has a 501 rod in it...

Hello, i have a question about when i should replace the connection rod on my FE 501 -97. The servicebook says 200 h but some people say that i should replace it after 50 h :shock: and some says that i can use it for 400 h.

Hi, Does anyone have the casting number on the side of the rod for the 2001/2 550, and also the longer 2001/3 501-2003 550? thanks.