progressive lr springs and fork spacers - pvc pipe

[ron criswell]

I have been running PVC just about the life of the bike. Mine is a 99. never have checked them but sure I'd recognize a failure. Criswell

On Monday, May 23, 2005, at 09:39 PM, Eric L. Green wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2005, Darren Clark wrote: >> I wasn't too sure about using PVC with oil so I decided to cut down >> the >> original 5.5" tubes that came with the bike. Does PVC soften up when >> exposed to fork oil? Does it contaminate the oil? I've seen some > > Nope, the PVC spacers I took out of my forks look just as good as when > I put them in there. > >> Who's been running PVC inserts for a long time and checked them >> lately? >> Are they OK? > > Dunno about "a long time", but for a month or so I did, and they were > fine > when I took them out. > > PVC pipe is pretty much chemically inert. If you were running toluene > in > your forks you might have a problem, but dino juice? Nope. > > _E > > > Archive Quicksearch at: > http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/klr650_data_search.html > List sponsored by Dual Sport News at: www.dualsportnews.com > List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[alvalewis]

owner of a 1998 KLR. I need to know if KLX and KLR (being the same frame) plastics (fenders etc), tank, are interchangeable, if not if it is possible to transform the KLR A model to look more like a C model. I have been searching on the net without any answer. Thanks