Kick starter gear and sprocket help

[Toki]

Hi,

First time poster and doing so from an iPhone, please forgive any ignorant questions and brevity.

I recently sheared my kickstarter gear ( approx 4 teeth ), I am wondering if others have had this problem, have any advice, or information where to get spares. If anyone has a spare I'd be happy to purchase or do a part swap.

Sprockets: are the front and rear sprocket on the 500 replaceable with any new, easily available, replacement? Are they direct swaps with any other Italian twins of their time, ( I assume this may have been done to cut cost at the time )?

Lastly I am located in Texas for anyone stateside, and have a number of parts available for part swapping ( mostly everything not directly attached to the engine ). I also have a spare starter motor and clutch, however only 2 of the 3 legs made it.

Thanks,
Duran

[Morizzi]

If you are in the U.S. then try Hermie at Herdan Corp.

http://www.herdan.com/

If no joy there then TLM in the UK. You can google them yourself easily.

You should get quite good at bump starting it in the meantime.

Cheers

Rod n Oz.

[Toki]

Ron,

Thanks for the help. Called Herdan and they had a spare, so I got that coming.

With regards to the sprockets, others may already know this, but the 501 will work as a replacement, but its thinner (I imagine ~ 520). The rear sprocket is interchangable with some ducati replacments, just working on finding out which ones.

Thanks again,
Duran

[EVguru]

The 'Blue Book' isn't all that clear on how to set up the kickstart assembly.

This might help;

http://youtu.be/QFKGXoyFtb4