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Months back I had the opportunity to purchase a beautiful 79. It was a frame up restoration and was looking the way of a moto x fox bike. But other then some decals and a set of fox airs it was a mostly stock bike. Since the purchase I have been scowering the web and eBay trying to find parts and info on these bikes. A lot of info was found on here through old topics and so far I have found things very helpful...although the search function isn't all that user friendly.
Anyways I'm starting to make progress on the build. Here's a list of Parts that I have accumulated.
Fox Factory Forx. Working on making a stem and axle. The stock CR stem won't work because the lower tree hole is much larger in diameter...must have been run on a different bike.
A set of moto x fox bars...these are in rough shape and I will repaint and try to save the original sticker
NOS moto x fox seat cover
Fox Factory swingarm...i had to purchase an entire bike to get this but at a very fair price. I will swap the swingarm and then sell that bike. Shouldn't lose to much.
Also I am currently working on the fox motor mounts and chain guide.
Obviously the dg pipe and silencer need to go. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a correct pipe?
Any other suggestions are welcome as well.
Anyways I'm starting to make progress on the build. Here's a list of Parts that I have accumulated.
Fox Factory Forx. Working on making a stem and axle. The stock CR stem won't work because the lower tree hole is much larger in diameter...must have been run on a different bike.
A set of moto x fox bars...these are in rough shape and I will repaint and try to save the original sticker
NOS moto x fox seat cover
Fox Factory swingarm...i had to purchase an entire bike to get this but at a very fair price. I will swap the swingarm and then sell that bike. Shouldn't lose to much.
Also I am currently working on the fox motor mounts and chain guide.
Obviously the dg pipe and silencer need to go. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a correct pipe?
Any other suggestions are welcome as well.
The Shop
Today I worked on the Fox Motor mounts. I had already cut them both out then when I went to bed the smaller 1 it instantly broke. That particular alloy won't bend. I purchased the correct aluminum yesterday for the shock guard and to remake the motor mounts. After looking atbyhe Fox plans again. I realized that the larger mount only needed an 1/8 in offset while the smaller piece that I broke requires about a 1/2 offset. An 1/8 in isn't very much and since I already had that piece cut I decided screw the 2 bends I will just use an 1/8in spacer instead. I got the larger 1 completed but didn't mess with the smaller 1 yet.
Gary - I returned your email. Thanks.
Your bike is looking sweet chopperninja. Here is what I had to start with. Wasn't much. Took a few other bikes and parts to finish mine.
Make Sure You Check CLEARANCES!
on chain roller
chain
brake arm
upper shock mounts
on full suspension compress!
Thanks
Here are the tires. Currently my front wheel is on my Bill Bell with Simon's forks because I didn't have another 78/80 wheel. But the front is a Dunlop sports D739 and the rest is an IFC motocross M5B. These wheels Tires were put on my the previous owner and they are perfectly fine for me.
Would you be willing to share the drawing and specs for the shock guard you made?
I would be very happy to share with you and that goes for anyone else that has questions about this build. Please ask and I will provide as much info as possible. When I was researching this bike in particular there just wasn't a ton of good info out there. It was very hard to find what I was looking for. I'm recording all of this to help the next person performing 1 of these builds. Maybe I'm not doing everything 100% period correct but i am trying my best to keep it as authentic as possible. I wasn't alive when these bikes were in existence so if anyone can give me any info also feel free.
PK I'm not sure how exactly to get my template to scale online but I would like to. That way you could just print it out and make your own template just like i did with the chain guide and head stay. But for now I will post the pics how I made mine.
Pit Row
You have done a great job on your build and hope to post some pictures of mine in the coming months.
PK
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Another thing that I found is that the chain guide mount on the swingarm is slightly further then on my other bike. You can see that I will need to design another shock guard then the 1 that I made for the other bike. Not a big deal but unfortunately the template that I habe made won't work. I assume they made a change at some point.
Took the yellow fox bars off of the unrestored bike and had them blasted and powdercoated yellow. I'm going to put them on the restored bike and replace them with a set of gold fox bars that I have. The gold bars were in much better shape so I made sense to do this.
Today I got the NOS seat cover out on. I tried to get the creases out but I guess being folded for 35 years they proved that they were a bit stubborn. I also got my order into PDE and am looking forward to there parts. The unrestored bike is also coming along well. Unfortunately it will probably be a few days until I get back out In the shop.
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