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klr650-digest          Monday, April 3 2000          Volume 02 : Number 1681



Re: (klr650) Fw: parts and advice
Re: (klr650) Cooling problem.
RE: (klr650) Chain Lubrication
Re: (klr650) Chain Lubrication
Re: (klr650) Compressor Maintenance nklr
(klr650) (nklr) RE: How far north reply
(klr650) KLR Motor Oil
(klr650) (nklr) Don Singleton
RE: (klr650) Do I have a coolant leak??

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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:07:10 -0700
From: "Arne Larsen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (klr650) Fw: parts and advice

[Tony says]
> > My bike is an 84 KLR 600. In Seattle I cant find much info or advice on
> it.
> > Any luggage racks floating around for this beast?
> >
> > Is there any chance a modern KLR tank will fit on my 84?


From: Fred Hink <[e-mail]>
To: KLR List <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 7:09 AM
Subject: (klr650) Fw: parts and advice

> Would someone help Tony with his questions?


I may be helping him with his luggage issues, and I have referred him to
Mike Walburn (they live in the same area) to go and "try on" a new tank.

Cheers,

Arne



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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:34:53 -0700
From: "Arne Larsen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (klr650) Cooling problem.

> I'm thinking the thermostat is gone! What do you think?

The bike keeps cool at speed, but get's hot at idle or going slow... I'm
thinking you're right.  You might want to try warming the bike up with the
radiator lid off.  "If" the thermostat opens, and everything starts flowing,
any air that "might" be trapped in their should burp out.  You can the top
it up.  However, this might not be necessary with the overflow resevoir and
all that.

Arne


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Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:37:45 -0600
From: Bogdan Swider <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (klr650) Chain Lubrication

> Arne
> __________________________
>
> Chain Lube - 90 wt Gear Oil
> READ THIS - The KLR like all single cylinder dual sport bikes all have
> similar drive line characteristics that all come together to destroy
> chains
> and sprockets in a relatively short distance of 16,000 - 18,000km. I had
> gotten tired of such poor performence and decided to try what is written
> on
> all RK chains boxes " lube with 90 weight gear oil", doing that every 150
> -
> 200 km has produced more than double the normal chain and sprocket life, I
> now have 46,000km on this last set!
>
Yeah, I got around 20k miles using the same stuff but I didn't lube as
often. I bet this guy rides slow and easy. Bogdan






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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:47:49 -0700
From: "Arne Larsen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (klr650) Chain Lubrication

Subject: RE: (klr650) Chain Lubrication


> > Chain Lube - 90 wt Gear Oil
> > READ THIS - The KLR like all single cylinder dual sport bikes all have
> > similar drive line characteristics that all come together to destroy
> > chains
> > and sprockets in a relatively short distance of 16,000 - 18,000km. I had
> > gotten tired of such poor performence and decided to try what is written
> > on
> > all RK chains boxes " lube with 90 weight gear oil", doing that every
150
> > -
> > 200 km has produced more than double the normal chain and sprocket life,
I
> > now have 46,000km on this last set!


> Yeah, I got around 20k miles using the same stuff but I didn't lube as
> often. I bet this guy rides slow and easy. Bogdan

I bet he doesn't.  He's from BC afterall.  I guess you didn't check out his
website that I posted yesterday.
http://members.home.net/adventureds1

Or this one... which was his most recently published ride in Canadian Biker.
http://canadianbiker.com/features/places/trails160.html

Cheers,

Arne



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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:10:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Don Jonuska)
Subject: Re: (klr650) Compressor Maintenance nklr

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Hey Bogdan, when It takes almost no time for your compressor to build up
pressure and your air tools start to act like squirt guns you may want
to drain off some of the water.(g)  Drain your tank often enough that it
doesn't worry you that the bottom of the tank will rust out or freeze
and split the tank(It would probably take a lot for that)  If you are
running a paint sprayer you will want to drain it every chance you get
and run an air dryer.

Donklra13


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Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 13:32:15 -0600
From: Bogdan Swider <[e-mail]>
Subject: (klr650) Compressor Maintenance nklr
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Guys, I'm on my fist compressor. (No comparisons to camels or seals please)
How anal are you folks about draining the water from the tank. Everytime you
use it, like the manual says? Every week? Every year? I live in a dry
climate but there's a little water in there after every use. Bogdan

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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:58:00 -0300
From: "steve pye" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (klr650) (nklr) RE: How far north reply

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Hello Mike,
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the trip your =
planning is an excellent ride with many interesting high points, Gros =
Morne National Park, L'anse Aux Meadows( Vikings 1000a.d.), Red Bay( =
Spanish Basque whaling1600a.d.) just to name a few. The bad news is that =
when you cross the Straight of Belle Isle to the mainland the road dead =
ends about 75 km to the west in Quebec and about the same distance to =
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If you want to travel to central or western Labrador there is a ferry =
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Quebec.
Contact   Dept. of Tourism and Culture
               P.O.Box 8730, St.John's, NFLD
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off list anytime. Good Luck with the planning,
Steve Pye
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Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 15:02:03 -0700
From: "Dennis M. Griffin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (klr650) KLR Motor Oil

FWIW. Considering all the posts recently re motor oil, I think many on the
list may benefit from the info at Bel-Ray's Tech Info page -
http://www.bel-ray.com/consumer/Q&A%20pages/q&amo.html.
I reached 500 mi on my A14 Saturday, and wanted to change the oil before a
ride planned for Sunday. I had intended to use Bel-Ray's EXP, which is a
Semi Synthetic, in 10W40. This would have served as the second stage
break-in oil, until I go to full synthetic at about 2,000 mi. Well, the
dealer I needed to go to for a filter only had 20W50 anything, and it was
getting to be late Saturday afternoon, so I bought the KawChem 20W50. With
this oil in, at 60=B0 F ambient, the engine seemed slugish on turnover, and I
couldn't get it to idle higher than 2,000 RPM on full choke; not that I
typically idle higher than 2,000 RPM on choke, but before the change, if I
used full choke, I had to back it way off as soon as it light up to keep it
from racing above 2,000 RPM. So, I will find some EXP 10W40 to change to
before riding again. In my opinion, 50 weight oil is to heavy for a new,
reasonably close tolerance, engine, especially water cooled.
I remember that Suzuki did a study some years back & found that 50 weight
petroleum based oil actually caused their air/oil cooled engines to run
hotter than 30 & 40 weight oils due to internal friction from the oil
itself.

Dennis
A14
Scottsdale, AZ


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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:08:57 -0300
From: "steve pye" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (klr650) (nklr) Don Singleton

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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:17:25 -0800
From: "Wilmotte, Todd" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (klr650) Do I have a coolant leak??

Man ... I know what you mean by 100's of posts.  As it turned out, it was in
fact
cross-threaded and just a simple re-threading took care of it!
Thanks for the feedback

Todd Wilmotte
Spokane, WA.

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>
> Is your resevoir tank cap leaking or cross-slotted? Mine was cross-slotted
>
> from the dealer and I had the same symptoms. Keep-up on wiping the
> antifreeze-off, it's not really good for paint. Hope you find the leak.
>
> Charles (who is wading through 100's of posts, sorry if my responses are
> already well-covered)

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