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kick start conversions
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 10:28 pm
by botdave91
First time to post on the site, but have been following for a couple
of weeks. This is a great site and has taught me a whole lot I
did'nt know about my bike. My question is about a kick start
conversion for the 650. A good friend of mine has owned a few KLR's
over the years and told me has heard of such a thing. Being a
mechanic by trade, I don't like being stuck broken down somewhere
with something simple that I can't easily fix. Just wondering if
there is a kit available, or if the KLX 600 kick starter will
actually fit??
kick start conversions
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 12:33 am
by zrod73026
I believe in 96 or 97 the clutch size was increased, making it
impossible to fit the kickstart kit.
Rod,
(thought I was wrong once, but was mistaken)
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DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "botdave91" wrote:
> First time to post on the site, but have been following for a
couple
> of weeks. This is a great site and has taught me a whole lot I
> did'nt know about my bike. My question is about a kick start
> conversion for the 650. A good friend of mine has owned a few
KLR's
> over the years and told me has heard of such a thing. Being a
> mechanic by trade, I don't like being stuck broken down somewhere
> with something simple that I can't easily fix. Just wondering if
> there is a kit available, or if the KLX 600 kick starter will
> actually fit??
kick start conversions
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 6:47 am
by kdxkawboy@aol.com
In a message dated 2003-07-06 8:29:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
botdave@... writes:
>
>
> First time to post on the site, but have been following for a couple
> of weeks. This is a great site and has taught me a whole lot I
> did'nt know about my bike. My question is about a kick start
> conversion for the 650. A good friend of mine has owned a few KLR's
> over the years and told me has heard of such a thing. Being a
> mechanic by trade, I don't like being stuck broken down somewhere
> with something simple that I can't easily fix. Just wondering if
> there is a kit available, or if the KLX 600 kick starter will
> actually fit??
>
>
Up through the mid/late 90s Kawasaki sold a kickstarter kit for the 650. Then
Kawasaki made a few internal/external changes, like the case is no longer
plumbed to take a kick starter, and dropped the kickstarter. At the time Kawasaki
was saying they had sold so few retrofit kit that it wasn't worth keeping on
the shelf.
Pat
G'ville, Nv
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picked up new bike today !!!
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 10:44 am
by Geoff Minto
Devon Jarvis wrote:
>Unless the UK importer does something
>the US doesn't, like run the bikes
>on a dyno a few times before delivery, I
>doubt the motors have been run
>for more than a minute or two before
>they give you the bike. Maybe he
>meant they were built close enough to
>just run OK from the get-go.
Yes I didn't explain that very well - my dealer did mean that the
engine tolerances are such that the running-in process is virtually
unnecessary - he also said that the main reason for telling people,
particularly new bikers, to follow a run-in procedure is to avoid
someone wrapping their bike round a tree the first week they have
it. Thanks for the other useful info
Crishan Gunasekara wrote:
>Try this site SignalDynamics.com
I had a look but their indicator unit isn't compatable with the KLR.
All the best,
Geoff
KLR 650 C8
Perth
Scotland