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Oh well, if you have no intention of going back to a belt system the best favor you can do yourself is to cut that tab off the swing arm. If the chain is jumping sideways it's probably because it's catching on that tab.
You should be able to just put the bike on the center stand, chock the front wheel and loosen the rear wheel axle bolt and adjusters, slide the wheel ahead, drop the chain off the side of the sprocket, undo the swing arm bolt and drop it down to where you can easily get at it to cut that tab off. Then just reverse the process.
Not sure on the 440, I was never lucky enough to find one with a belt, but on the 750 the swing arm is completely different than all the others and won't accommodate the chain without modifications.
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.... the swing arm is exactly the same....
Not exactly. The '81, '82, '83 440 belt drive bikes all share the same swingarm, but the part number is different for the chain drive. It's possible the only difference is the bracket that the chain is hitting. If you can compare a chain drive swingarm to yours and verify that this is true, removing the bracket may solve the problem. Ed
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looking at the kawasaki parts diagrams it looks to me like the swing arms are the same part for the A3 chain and the D4 belt, #33001/A.I might be missing something and will investigate further. thanks.
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I looked at the parts diagram for a 1982 KZ440-D4 and got part number 33001-1112 for “Arm-Comp-Swing.†When I did a parts search at the top of the Kawasaki.com page it listed:
KZ440-D3 (LTD Belt) (1981)
KZ440-D4 (LTD Belt) (1982)
KZ440-D5 (LTD Belt) (1983)
Maybe I missed something? Ed
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...looked at the parts diagram for a 1982 KZ440-D4 and got part number 33001-1112 for “Arm-Comp-Swing.†..parts search...listed:
KZ440-D3 (LTD Belt) (1981)
KZ440-D4 (LTD Belt) (1982)
KZ440-D5 (LTD Belt) (1983)
....
I concur with Ed that kawasaki.com shows:
33001-1112
Model (3):
KZ440-D3 (LTD Belt) (1981)
KZ440-D4 (LTD Belt) (1982)
KZ440-D5 (LTD Belt) (1983)
The confusingly similar swing arm part number 33001-1121 is shown at kawasaki.com as:
33001-1121
Model (2):
KZ440-A3 (LTD) (1982)
KZ440-A4 (LTD) (1983)
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I see what you guys mean. Does it matter that the pictures are identical? And also, how did you do the search to come up with such specific parts numbers? Thanks.
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Ed/Patton-
I see what you guys mean. Does it matter that the pictures are identical? And also, how did you do the search to come up with such specific parts numbers? Thanks.
hyp
Click here > kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...w&catid=13&id=376734
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OFF TOPIC:I converted my 750LTD to chain drive with no problems whatsoever.
Really, what did you do about the belt guard? What did you do for an engine chain guard??
ON TOPIC:
If you don't want to modify the swing arm, you could get a flat chain guide that you could probably mount to that bracket on your swing arm, and keep from further damaging either the mount or your chain. Second row down far left on this page, should be available just about anywhere cheap.
www.scooterparts4less.com/dirt_bike_parts.htm
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