steering bearing replacement

martin_csr wrote: Just an FYI. The steel balls are probably still available. The list price is around a quarter. Partzilla has a photograph.

www.partzilla.com/parts/detail/kawasaki/KP-600A0800.html

ps: the 650-csr has 19 balls at the bottom & 20 at the top, so a guy might count the number of balls that fall out of the bottom & think one is missing.

RonKZ650 wrote: I put the tapered bearings in 3 KZ650s, and a KZ1000 and can't say I could tell any real improvement. They were before the Chinese all balls though, so maybe chinese bearings have a better feel . As to the swing arm bearings, why do you think virtually everything needs to be replaced? They used 4 good quality needle bearings in the 78. Those aren't bad I'll wager to bet. The 77 with the sleeve, yes, it's bad, but 78 the bearings most likely are fine.