{"id":4120,"date":"2011-03-03T12:40:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2012-09-02T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:30:00","slug":"xs-front-end-swap-for-cb350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2011\/03\/xs-front-end-swap-for-cb350\/","title":{"rendered":"XS Front End Swap for CB350"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey guys, thought I’d share some info on the front end swap I did over the winter on my ’72 CB350. I decided to go this route for a number of reasons, but it started out as just wanting to beef up my fork tube diameter from spaghetti noodle thin 33mm to a sturdy 35mm. In doing research I also found that road racers look for triple trees with four bolt pinch mounts on the bottom yoke as apposed to the CB’s two, giving more clamping surface area and a more secure attachment. This left me with a few options but I decided to try out a Yamaha XS front end because of the added benefit of aluminum shouldered rims and a simple dual disk conversion. Took a lot of time researching and sourcing parts but here’s the quick version:<\/p>\n

The assembled front end consisting of XS650 trees, wheels, and forks. \u00a0Brake calipers and dual lines are from a XS750 and the brake rotors are from a XS1100. \u00a0I used a super helpful Yamaha Part Finder<\/a> website to figure out which parts are interchangeable between the different years and models.<\/p>\n

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Tapered bearing kit for CB350 from All Balls Racing works perfect with the XS stem, no modifications needed. \u00a0I also bought a bearing kit for a XS650 thinking I would need to combine pieces of both but since I didn’t need it if anyone is looking to upgrade their XS bearings I’ll part with them for cheap.<\/p>\n

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Lower bearing in place and new upper bearing race installed. \u00a0The kit replaces both stock ball bearing races.<\/p>\n

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Final product:<\/p>\n

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Brake master cylinder and stainless lines I picked up from MikesXS.com<\/a><\/p>\n

All in all I’m happy to have a rock solid front end. \u00a0Being such a light bike dual disks are probably overkill… but it looks bad-ass and I’ll be able to stop using one finger. \u00a0Can’t wait to get it on the road and test it out. \u00a0I’m doing a shit-ton of other modifications to pretty much every aspect of this bike so I’ll share them as they get completed if you guys like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey guys, thought I’d share some info on the front end swap I did over the winter on my ’72 CB350. I decided to go this route for a number of reasons, but it started out as just wanting to beef up my fork tube diameter from spaghetti noodle thin 33mm to a sturdy 35mm. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}