Wheel Alignment Issues

Yep thats the wrong caliper 80s for sure. The rotor looks right soooo

You may need the 80s rotor.

Figured it out!

I bought an LTD wheel on ebay, complete with cush drive and disc.

Turns out, I hand LTD wheel, but the brake rotor and cush drive were from a spoke wheel model.

The LTD cush drive is taller, and the disc is flatter, thus moving the wheel to the right, which would put it in the middle of my swingarm.

-Dave

chance wrote:

That from what I can see doesn't look like a 77/78 caliper it looks 80s so the wrong year rear may be the incorrect one. I will look at the 77 and take some pics if the rear rim& caliper. A wrong caliper and disc will throw it off I'll get back to you tommorrow unless someome else can shed some light on this.

78 kz1000 used that style caliper

This is my 78 KZ1000 LTD Caliper

Glad you found out what was wrong. Do you still have your old wheel ? Roy Bs looking for one if you want to get off of it.

PLUMMEN wrote:

chance wrote:

That from what I can see doesn't look like a 77/78 caliper it looks 80s so the wrong year rear may be the incorrect one. I will look at the 77 and take some pics if the rear rim& caliper. A wrong caliper and disc will throw it off I'll get back to you tommorrow unless someome else can shed some light on this.

78 kz1000 used that style caliper

Correct thats a 78 spoke wheel rotor..Not used on the ltd 16in mag..

beefsquasher wrote:

My bike seems to have a wheel alignment issue. The brake caliper and brake stay line up. So do the sprockets and chain. The swingarm is stock and has new bearings/spindle.

The problem is that the whole wheel is offset to the left about 3/4". The chain actually lightly rubs on the left sidewall of the tire, and there is tons of space on the right where the caliper is. I can't move the caliper or sprocket around b/c they wouldn;t line up with the stay or the engine sprocket anymore.

I bought the bike like this. Is it possible that I have some mismatched parts somewhere?

Everything is tight and straight, and the bike goes straight, handles normally, stops and goes properly.

What is going on? Maybe some pictures are in order...

The tire is stock size for the cast wheels (MT90/130/90 - 16).

-Dave

do you have a side shot of the bike?

This is a 78 ltd

This is a 78 spoke

chance wrote:

This is a 78 ltd

This is a 78 spoke

those are both 78 kz A series bikes,top one just has mag wheels installed

Mines a b2

blue bike in your avatar is a B series,the purple bike and red bike you posted are both A series bikes