Bizarre KTM issue....

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Bruce372 3/24/2022 5:53am
3/24/2022 5:53am
sgrimmxdad wrote:
We just had a 22 KTM 250 SX we did a spring conversion on, it had the 19-20 lugs on it! Had to switch the hydro...
We just had a 22 KTM 250 SX we did a spring conversion on, it had the 19-20 lugs on it! Had to switch the hydro stops!
Holy crap, how can that be? I don't think the new cartridges and damper rod would even bolt up to the older lugs...legs.... I've got both and tried and it's totally different?
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Bruce372 3/24/2022 6:00am
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Mid valve with a fender washer replacing the trampoline...

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These were brand new, unmolested take off husky forks
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sgrimmxdad 3/24/2022 7:37am
3/24/2022 7:37am
sgrimmxdad wrote:
We just had a 22 KTM 250 SX we did a spring conversion on, it had the 19-20 lugs on it! Had to switch the hydro...
We just had a 22 KTM 250 SX we did a spring conversion on, it had the 19-20 lugs on it! Had to switch the hydro stops!
Bruce372 wrote:
Holy crap, how can that be? I don't think the new cartridges and damper rod would even bolt up to the older lugs...legs.... I've got both...
Holy crap, how can that be? I don't think the new cartridges and damper rod would even bolt up to the older lugs...legs.... I've got both and tried and it's totally different?
Here is a picture of the lug and the new style hydrostop. Totally different!

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Tracktor 3/24/2022 2:38pm
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Got a low hour 150 kit if you need one. My boys preferred the 125 with STIC...........
Ace Dudemeister 3/26/2022 7:38am
3/26/2022 7:38am
When I had a 300, I always wondered if it was really a 300.

I assume my Triumph was made with the best intentions. Others call it character, but it isn’t.
TheGetFresh 3/26/2022 12:11pm
3/26/2022 12:11pm
TheGetFresh wrote:
I have a 1290 Superduke that I bought new and I’ve found a handful of baffling factory errors. The most irritating was a fastener deeply cross-threaded...
I have a 1290 Superduke that I bought new and I’ve found a handful of baffling factory errors. The most irritating was a fastener deeply cross-threaded into the trellis steel frame. KTM has great designs but this bike has destroyed any faith I ever had in their production.
VE290 wrote:
The cross threaded bolt was likely done at your dealers workshop. I’ve been more baffled with what I’ve seen done by transporters and technicians. But I...
The cross threaded bolt was likely done at your dealers workshop. I’ve been more baffled with what I’ve seen done by transporters and technicians.

But I have seen some weird things similar to this with Ktm group. Saw an 350 make it through pdi and on to the showroom floor as a 250, everything turned out to be correct except the decals, so not a big deal but a little more obvious



That was my first assumption, but I went through all the service records (the bike had about 500 miles when I found it, so there was really just uncrating and set up) and there was no reason that this particular bolt would have ever been touched by anybody other than the assembler.

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