hard starting and backfireing

[Craig Kahler]

Why is Kawasaki advertising these for only 08 and 09 KLRs. Has anyone tried these on an earlier model? Craig Kahler [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Jud Jones]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Khoury wrote:

> I have an old Seca II which I bought from a guy who'd left it sitting with the petcock on and a full tank of gas for 3 years. A full tank had evaporated down to 1/8 tank of sickly-sweet smelling sludge. The slides were so varnised they had to be pried out with a screwdriver. The needles were also stuck to the sides of the needle jet and some of the internal passages were varnished shut as well. >

Where you have varnish-seized pot-metal, a little time in a 200 oven will soften the varnish where a screwdriver might gouge something.