{"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 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