On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, wannabsmooth1 wrote:
> > Maybe I'll just have you and your "crew" down for a weekend.
> Maybe
> > come over Saturday and stay the night? Have a barbeque next to a
> > fire that night? Then have another get together for more riders.
> >
> > What do you guys want to do? Get accomplished?
> >
> > MrMoose
> > A8 (Barbie and Ken special)
>
> MarkB and I talked last night, and are thinking about crashing your
> party. Need a couple of fairly experienced wrenches? We each have
> the special tools, too. We'll watch for the date.
I'm not an experienced wrench on the KLR (used to be one on Hondas, a long
time ago), but I have the tools and can read the manual and have done the
doohickey swapout before. I'd be interested in doing my valves, I've never
done a bucket-under-shim setup before, just Honda's weird
single-cam-with-funny-shaped-rocker-arms setup. I'd also be interested in
seeing if the combined expertise of a bunch of KLRistas actually looking
at the bike can figure out why my KLR has developed a head shake (I can
move the shake around but can't seem to get rid of it, despite adjusting
bearings, truing the front wheel to under .020 runout, rebalancing the
front wheel, making sure steering head bolts are all tight, etc.,
everything is in spec so this is driving me nuts, though at least I've
moved the shake up to 80mph so it's not dangerous to ride the thing), but
I have the doohickey tools, torque wrenches, etc.
If it's not too long a drive I can bring my motorcycle lift and some
tie-down straps and turn my KLR into a trailer queen for a few miles (hey,
the Mule has 23,000+ miles on her in 3 years, so it's not as if that's her
normal habitat, unlike your typical Hardly
. If it's too long a drive
from the South Bay (San Jose), i.e., would be more than a tank of gas for
my pickup truck, all I can provide is the tools and the KLR because with
gas at $2.15 a gallon I can barely afford to drive the truck WITHOUT
taking long trips in it
. (A tank of gas that'll take me 300 miles is
approaching $40 swiftly... unless I ride the KLR, in which case a 300 mile
trip last weekend was $12 worth of gas).
-E