KLR riders out there

**stivernz** · 29th April 2013, 23:35

Help. Need to track down a replacement CDI for my project. Fitting a KLR600 into a NSR frame. Motor is mounted and ready to run - tried to get a spark and no go. I have tested the CDI as per the manual and the readings are not good. any help would be great. Cheers Brent

**pete376403** · 30th April 2013, 16:54

plenty on e-bay but not cheap

http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_f...i&LH_PrefLoc=2

**GPS MAN** · 1st May 2013, 07:58

Originally Posted by Woodman

No surprises here.

http://www.cycleworld.com/2013/03/29...-stats-photos/

Exactly!

**Night Falcon** · 1st May 2013, 17:58

Originally Posted by Woodman

No surprises here.

http://www.cycleworld.com/2013/03/29...-stats-photos/

Originally Posted by GPS MAN

Exactly!

predictable and unbiased agreement from two experienced adventure motorcycle enthuisists

who cares about easy maintenance when ya being chased by doomsday preppers wanting their stolen baked beans and petrol back....more power is always the best choice.....you know I'm right

**Odakyu-sen** · 14th May 2013, 15:16

Hello All,

Are there other KLR riders in Auckland who want to get out for 1-tankful day rides? I am thinking of checking the road from Raglan to Kawhia (via Kauroa-Kawhia Road) this weekend. Anyone want to come along?

Well, in the 3 weeks since I posted this, plenty have read my post but not a single response. (Maybe I should slink back to the Waikato riders' thread and see what adventures they have planned...) Granted, they are a little DR650-heavy, but they know how to party.

**Normlas** · 4th June 2013, 20:12

Originally Posted by Normlas

Hi All,
yesterday I came back from an awesome 4 week, 7500 km tour of the South Island, a dream trip including; Molesworth station, Rainbow Road, Dansys Pass, Old Dunstan Road, Nevis Trail, Skipper Canyon and a few other fantastic gravel rides, camping wild and living free off the back of my mildly farkled '08 KLR. No dramas other than a new rear tyre in Greymouth and a new chain in Christchurch, but all went great.

About 50km short of home, on the Southern near Manurewa, I hear a loud clicking noise, look down and see my left foot is covered in oil and the engine stopped pretty much immediately, I coast to the side of the motorway and watch the oil pour out of my poor wee girl

pieces of engine casing on the ground........

Closer inspection shows a 3cm hole on the top of the engine case just behind where the cylinder meets the main engine body - see pics. AA to the rescue.

I am gutted about such a crap end to such an awesome adventure, she's booked into the shop for next week but looks pretty terminal to me....... anyone got a spare engine for an '08?

Hi all,
so I finally have the full story of what caused that hole in my engine and the death of my '08 KLR, it goes something like this.......

A 'dog' broke off one of the drive gears (I was told possibly 3rd gear) and rattled around the engine for some time damaging lots of stuff, it then got caught between the balancer weight and the crank case and forced through the casing (hence the hole), this caused most of the oil to be pumped out rapidly, this caused the exhaust cam to seize in the block which bent the valve rod which then damaged the piston and bore ....... all in all a pretty thorough destruction of the entire engine. Sorry no pictures.

I had dropped the bike earlier that day (pretty much just fell over at walking pace) which had damaged some plastics and knocked the handlebars a little crooked, so I put in an insurance claim for that damage and also said the engine blew up later that day and that it was up to the mechanic to determine if the two are related (was worth a shot I thought). The mechanic said it may have contributed but there was no way to prove either way. Took the insurance company nearly three months, and a few emails from me, but they finally decided to accept the engine damage and pay out for the whole bike, wohooo!!

In hindsight, I was told that me dropping the bike could have feasibly contributed to this breakage, I was in second gear and the drop onto the left side could have caused the bike to slam into third gear with the engine revving - this could have caused that dog to break off and rattle around until it killed the engine some 300km's later. Far from proven but a possibility none-the-less.

Interesting thing is I that I never noticed anything until the engine failed completely, I thought I would have felt a loss of power or at least heard the noise of the engine case failing but I never noticed anything - although I did have ear buds in and music playing. Given I was returning home from a 7500km 4 week adventure ride around NZ I was pretty much "in-tune" with that bike. I have since found another example of such a failure which, luckily for the owner, did not end as catastrophically as mine, see here;

http://www.klr650.net/forums/showthread.php?t=65712

Call me a sucker for punishment, but as soon as the cheque from the insurance clears I'm getting a 2013 KLR I like the new black stealthy look and given the oil burning issue seems to be sorted (my '08 was a burner) and I can bolt most of my farkles back on, seems a good way to go.

**NordieBoy** · 4th June 2013, 21:19

Ouch!

Phew!

Goodonya!

**pete376403** · 4th June 2013, 21:50

Any chance of getting the plastics off it (upper and lower parts of fairing) I can swap for some totally rooted ones if required.

Good on you for the win, though, and glad that you're keeping the faith!

**Normlas** · 4th June 2013, 22:26

Originally Posted by pete376403

Any chance of getting the plastics off it (upper and lower parts of fairing) I can swap for some totally rooted ones if required.

Good on you for the win, though, and glad that you're keeping the faith!

nope, sorry Pete, she doesn't belong to me anymore

I guess the insurance company will sell it at auction and someone will part it out or try and fix it, the plastics were in pretty rough shape anyway.

**Normlas** · 5th June 2013, 21:28

OK, so I pulled the trigger on it and paid for a brand spanking 2013 KLR in black from Spectrum this afternoon, pick up on Saturday, can't wait !

first new vehicle I have ever owned, figured I was due a treat and I can't take anymore sitting in the Auckland traffic watching the bikes tear past !

Saturday will be a big day