KLR riders out there

[Woodman]

No I didn't drill the slider cos I lost the drill bit somewhere. Def don't remove the carb as they're suposed to be buggers to get back onto the rubber sleeves. My throttle securing screw was really locktited on I rooted the head getting it off - had to use vicegrips. Also be careful with the diaphram - a bit of grease holds it in place.

Drilled mine, can't remember wot size dill , but it was definitely bigger than the hole prior to drilling.

[Woodman]

Padmei, did gonzo use any oil on the trip to kaikoura and back? I used about 400 ml. Not sure of kms we did as I lost my speedo at Seddon (500ish)

I Used more on the way home because it was a faster trip in the dry than the wet slowish trip there, and zerax reckons he could see a bit of black smoke on de acceleration (spelling).
Black not generally oil but he reckons he caught the odd wiff too.

Might fashion a catch tank this week to see how much of it is breather related.

[Woodman]

As I mentioned in the previous post, my speedo stopped working. Pulled the drive unit apart this arvo and upon inspection it is um fcuked. The little drive washer thing has somehow managed to smash off bits of the hub > it must have siezed up, although there was plenty of grease in there.
Anyway, does anyone out there have either a front hub or complete wheel they no longer require? cos I really can't see any easy way to mend the one I have without welding and machining up some kind of insert. Shit Its times like this that I really miss not working in a machine shop.
Anyway pm or reply if you have one and how much.

Padmei did that tengai have wheels??

[Padmei]

Nah no wheels unfortunately otherwise I'd have a set of on road & off road tyres. I don't think it is a tengai now just a white & green model.
Bugger about the speedo. On the way back I was riding about 120-130+ on GPS & the poor lil speedo was whirring it's head off reading about 150ish. Don't know what's up with that - 10% reataradition or something.

Just checked the oil & I filled it to top of the sight glass above the max level mark & it is now sitting just under max level - maybe 3/4 the way up. Not sure how much oil that is but I expected it to use a bit due to constant high revving.

Forest ride again maybe next weekend?

[Padmei]

Forgot to add. I wouldn't bother about the speedo. I'd get a bike computer & fit that or a cool vapour dash thing with flashing LEDs & stuff. Tu meke KLR

[Squiggles]

i've got lots of bits for a KLR600...

[JATZ]

Forgot to add. I wouldn't bother about the speedo. I'd get a bike computer & fit that or a cool vapour dash thing with flashing LEDs & stuff. Tu meke KLR

What Padmei said........ get y'self a vapour, I'm liking mine now that it's all set up and working how it should The only problem I had with the bike speedo was it had no light so after dark it was rev counter only.

OOoooooo "forest ride" can I come, can I, can I, Pleeeeeease, I promise I won't embarrass you.
Might even take the spiders for a ride on the CT

[NordieBoy]

Got a Vapor still in it's box sitting on the wall of the shed not doing much...
Only thing it's got over the Acewell on the DR is the thermometer. Not enough of a plus to make me want to pull the Acewell and re-wire it all for the Vapor.

Nordies KLR parts Emporium.

[marks]

10% reataradition or something.

maybe the bike syncs with the rider?


I just replaced my cush drive rubbers - $70 - made a massive difference to the fore-aft freeplay of the sprocket even though the new one looked like the old one.

Also did this weekends ride with a 16t front sprocket - so nice on the road at 100-110 and 4th is a really nice overtaking gear. Well worth doing for longer roady rides

Also first ride with an E07 rear - what a great gravel tire - sildes very progressivly and fine on the twistys - even tolerableish in the Makiro slime .

[Woodman]

i've got lots of bits for a KLR600...

Do you know if the front wheels are the same as a 650?

Got a Vapor still in it's box sitting on the wall of the shed not doing much...
Only thing it's got over the Acewell on the DR is the thermometer. Not enough of a plus to make me want to pull the Acewell and re-wire it all for the Vapor.

Nordies KLR parts Emporium.

Does it have a temp gauge? and indicator lights etc?

Forgot to add. I wouldn't bother about the speedo. I'd get a bike computer & fit that or a cool vapour dash thing with flashing LEDs & stuff. Tu meke KLR

I had a look on the net before and they look pretty cool, and not that dare either.

[NordieBoy]

Does it have a temp gauge? and indicator lights etc?

Temp gauge but no indicators but they're cheap to get.

[Padmei]

I was thinking how good a 6th gear would be. I was continually shifting up from 5th & going nowhere. Started thinking maybe a 16 tooth would be good but then if you wanted to tootle off road the 1st & 2nd gears would be unusable

I think my cushdrive has gone too. Read somewhere about putting bits of mtb tube over existing ones.

E07s a re great tyres

[Woodman]

Temp gauge but no indicators but they're cheap to get.

HHmmmm May well be an option, I was sorta looking at them anyways.
KLR600 hubs are different so thats not an option, and any welding on the old hub is gonna pull the bearing hole outa shape, and an insert will mean that the bearing on that side will only be sitting on half its surface area so could cause issues later on.

I found cheapcycleparts.com brilliant. If you look under OEM parts they have exploded parts diagrams and part numbers and everything. Real good for researching. Pretty good pricing too and on gen KHI parts.

[Woodman]

I was thinking how good a 6th gear would be. I was continually shifting up from 5th & going nowhere. Started thinking maybe a 16 tooth would be good but then if you wanted to tootle off road the 1st & 2nd gears would be unusable

I think my cushdrive has gone too. Read somewhere about putting bits of mtb tube over existing ones.

E07s a re great tyres

Could you imagine getting going halfway up a firebreak like you did the other day with a 16 tooth??

[marks]

I was thinking how good a 6th gear would be. I was continually shifting up from 5th & going nowhere. Started thinking maybe a 16 tooth would be good but then if you wanted to tootle off road the 1st & 2nd gears would be unusable

Could you imagine getting going halfway up a firebreak like you did the other day with a 16 tooth??

1st is still fine in the tighter stuff (a tiny bit more clutch slip) but second becomes too big a jump but as I try and avoid lumpy stuff on my klr I can live with that. The gains on the open road are worth the trade off IMHO