Category: 990 Adventure S

More 4k Parti Speciali bits – footpeg extensions, functional and look great.

Once I removed the stock ones I discovered the mounting pins were very worn, so swapped them for some stainless ones I had left over from the CCM project plus stainless split pins and washers. I was also able to add a slim stainless washer to take out some of the play in the mount.

You have to drill 3 small holes in each footpeg, just pay attention to where the webs are on each peg. I used hose clamp pliers to fit the springs, as they’re a bastard to fit otherwise.

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Finally well enough to catch up on some of the jobs I’d bought parts for. First is to fit a side stand relocation kit and the side stand I bought from 4k Parti Speciali.

Side Stand relocation Kit

Main reason for this is the stock side stand is bolted to the engine case and if you do hit something of road there’s a chance of smashing the engine case. So I bought a kit from Charlie Nut and bolted it on, only thing I’m going to do is swap out the bolts for stainless ones as there at the bottom of the engine where all the muck from the road will corrode standard bolts.

Kit was easy to fit, just follow their instructions, obviously cleaning as you go 🙂 I’ll redo the photos when I swap the bolts as was feeling crap on the day I did the work.

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4K Parti Speciali Side Stand

This stand kit is great on many counts, first it is adjustable for long or short travel suspension, secondly its designed to tuck in closer to the frame and finally it looks great.

Once is unbolted the standard side stand it was apparent that the mounting bracket and bolt were both worn introducing lots of play and the springs had been bent and some stage so I had a quick trip to the local KTM dealers to pick up new parts.

The only mod I made to the 4k stand was to add longer bolts to the foot and dome nuts to ensure its safe from vibrations plus medium loctite.

I’m also going to investigate removing the side stand switch as it looks like a weak point if it gets broken off road, is ridiculously expensive to replace and unnecessary as bikes didn’t use to have them, just more shit to go wrong at the wrong time.

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There are two things I’ve always disliked about the Adventure and that’s the indicators and enormous rear light. Indicators were fixed with KTM EXC ones and the rear light has now been sorted with a kit from Twalcom in Italy. They do a great range of upgrade parts, unfortunately in the UK we get hit with import fees due to the Brexit fuckwits.

The kit consists of a modified led rear light, some aluminium brackets and a custom number plate holder that is quick release if you’re off roading.

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Fitting is easy, basically remove rear light and mount, swap some spacers over and fit new bracket etc. Only issue for the UK is the number plate holder isn’t the right shape for our number plates, so as a temp fix I just added a flexible plate at the top of the holder. When I get some free time I’ll design and 3D print one for UK plates.

The improvement is massive and highly recommended!

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Bought one of Z Adventure‘s QR glovebox brackets. Good value and dead easy to fit.

My only issue was the bottom moulding had previously been drilled for a 12v socket, so tried to buy a new one to find, after weeks of waiting, its no longer in production.

Months of eBay searches revealed a NOS one the other day which I now have.

Certainly will make air filter changes a lot easier in the future, whilst I was at it I added a K&N filter.

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I noticed when fitting the K&N that the secondary butterflies have been removed so guess some tuning has happened in the past, will checkout the engine mapping when I get a chance.

The bike came with a HID conversion but I didn’t like the buzzing noise from the HID controller and want to lose any weight I can, so I removed the HID wiring and bought some LED bulbs.

Only issue at the moment is I’m still looking for rubber cover that will fit the high beam bulb as the one I bought has a large heatsink.

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You can see the difference the lighting has gone from the blue tone to a much whiter one. IF the bulbs would have been standard the difference would be massive.

Highly recommended and cheap improvement. Bulbs are H7 dipped and H3 high beam, I bought 20Twenty bulbs, only issue was the dipped ones came as a pair but I guess a spare is always useful.

Catching up on items done just before I moved into chaos.

Brake pedal had my standard steps –

• Dismantle
• Clean
• Blast
• Repaint

Fitted new Stainless allen bolts to the pedal, a new bearing – 6082rs and made a new stainless adjuster out of an M6 bolt, cut to length then filed the end round.

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Its been a bloody nightmare with ridiculous builder’s quotes. So garage rebuild has been shelved, as I’d rather spend £50k on bikes.

Managed to get the KTM home and have been doing a few maintenance jobs, but the garage has a long way to go. Fitting the door nearly killed me, as I had to do it by myself, so removing the old patio doors, what were they thinking, and then fitting the up and over door was hard work.

Next need to get shelving sorted so that I can get my tools and gear back and get rid of the bloody cardboard boxes.

Fuel Pump’s filters state were an unknown, so I removed it from the tank to do a service on it using KTM’s pump overhaul kit – 61007090200.

The service is straight forward, remove pump from the tank (4 bolts) then dismantle by – gently – levering the two metal clamps outwards then wiggle the top plastic part upwards till it separates then undo the small screw for the wiring followed by two screws holding the metal clamps. The metal inlet on the plastic part does not need to be removed.

The kit has all new filters and o-rings, jsut swap them out one at a time. My pump had some dirt in it plus the filters definitely needed changing, the filter attached to the pump is a very tight fit so take care when fitting. Refitted with some new stainless bolts and a throughout clean of the tank with ACF50.

Also fitted a pair of new fuel taps – K58507003200 and new hoses.

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