Intiminators installed: I'm underwhelmed.

[400sm]

Plenty of action surprisingly!

There's a youtube clip of a klr owner's before and after fork action. Def a huge difference notwithstanding the tec issues you have pointed out.

[Kickaha]

The evidence dictates that intiminators DO work to the satisfaction of their owners,.

Some people are easily satisfied, that doesn't mean they're working as well as they could be

[400sm]

What I'm saying is that choppers should work as good as they are meant to.
His are not working at all.

[400sm]

Put "klr 650 intiminators" into youtube. Watch the 1min 17sec vid.

[Woodman]

Some people are easily satisfied, that doesn't mean they're working as well as they could be

Correct, and the thread was about KLRs which have an apalling frontend to start with and yes RT is correct in that he could make a klr better than with intiminators (not sure if he has though), but my Ricor front and rear have made a night and day change for the better. End of.

[nzspokes]

Ive worked out a fix for these things, to follow through the week.

I get what you mean with the damper rods being off line, I have seen that in the past. It would load the hell out of a valve sitting on top of it and if its not designed for those kind of loads it will cause damage.

41mm is a big piston. Makes one wonder how they cocked it up so badly. I would have thought with that much size it would not have been hard to get right.

Would it be a huge job to retro fit a cartridge from another fork? Or just fit a KX fork( or something along those lines). My KDX im halfway through a KX conversion which I think will owe me $250.

[Woodman]

I get what you mean with the damper rods being off line, I have seen that in the past. It would load the hell out of a valve sitting on top of it and if its not designed for those kind of loads it will cause damage.

41mm is a big piston. Makes one wonder how they cocked it up so badly. I would have thought with that much size it would not have been hard to get right.

Would it be a huge job to retro fit a cartridge from another fork? Or just fit a KX fork( or something along those lines). My KDX im halfway through a KX conversion which I think will owe me $250.

Putting USD forks or beefier convetionals on KLRs is a pretty common mod. Probarbly would have done mine eventually,but am going to move it on shortly.

[GPS MAN]

Where you going~Woodman???????????????????????

Not giving up on the KLR I hope??????

[400sm]

Hi choppet T.

According to all the intiminator diagrams on google images, the seal must contact the inner fork wall to make it work.
You identified a diameter discrepancy in your posts.

Are you saying that the seal OD is smaller than the fork ID ?

[400sm]

I get what you mean with the damper rods being off line, I have seen that in the past. It would load the hell out of a valve sitting on top of it and if its not designed for those kind of loads it will cause damage.

41mm is a big piston. Makes one wonder how they cocked it up so badly. I would have thought with that much size it would not have been hard to get right.

Would it be a huge job to retro fit a cartridge from another fork? Or just fit a KX fork( or something along those lines). My KDX im halfway through a KX conversion which I think will owe me $250.

41mm is the OD of the fork tube l think.

[NordieBoy]

Just reading Don Richardson's biography.

He sounds very much like an American Robert Taylor

[Woodman]

Where you going~Woodman???????????????????????

Not giving up on the KLR I hope??????

Not going anywhere, but the KLR is just sitting in the shed leaking oil from its fork seals since the dustybutt and I am really enjoying the GS. Hate to see a bike sitting unused.

This thread may explain why it constantly blows fork seals.

[chopperT]

Hi choppet T.

According to all the intiminator diagrams on google images, the seal must contact the inner fork wall to make it work.
You identified a diameter discrepancy in your posts.

Are you saying that the seal OD is smaller than the fork ID ?

The OD of the valve is a tad under 34mm. The spring and spacers are also 34mm. Installation of the valves required some patience to get the sealring started in the bore, they were then a nice sliding fit. I am confident that the valve bodies are the correct size.

The diameter discrepancy identified was in relation to the shims, and their seating/sealing surface, which is not related to the OD of the valve.

And yes, 41mm is the OD of the tube.

[NordieBoy]

Not going anywhere, but the KLR is just sitting in the shed leaking oil from its fork seals since the dustybutt and I am really enjoying the GS. Hate to see a bike sitting unused.

This thread may explain why it constantly blows fork seals.

125,000km on the DR fork seals...

I think there's some oil in there still...

[marks]

An interesting read

A year or two ago I spent $250 on intiminators and turned crappy klr suspension into what felt to me to be less crappy suspension

At $250 I was prepared to 'take a punt'. I thought (and still think) the improvement was worth the cost

I have no idea how much better properly modified suspension could be but I had assumed that getting someone like Robert Taylor to modify my suspension would be a $500-$1000 exercise

Without knowing how great the improvement would be its hard to get over the hurdle of spending 2 or 3 times the cost with an uncertain outcome.