more choke needed to start, starting more difficult

[Craig Young]

I was at my sons Lacrosse game in Ogden yesterday and saw a nice blue 2008 KLR with a quart of oil strapped to the rack. I asked the rider how he liked the bike and he said he loved it. When I asked whats with the oil, he said it uses a lot, but didn't know it was systemic. I recommended he take it to the dealer as some owners have gotten repairs under warrantee. He said he had already had the turn signals replaced so knows the drill. Not a good advertisement for Kawasaki!

[Rick McCauley]

Very bad for Kawasaki. In all my journeys, I have only seen one motorcycle that had oil strapped to it. It was an old AMF Harley. They weren't known for quality. Rick A17

--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Craig Young wrote: From: Craig Young Subject: [DSN_KLR650] 2008 KLR Oil user To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 8:13 AM I was at my sons Lacrosse game in Ogden yesterday and saw a nice blue 2008 KLR with a quart of oil strapped to the rack. I asked the rider how he liked the bike and he said he loved it. When I asked whats with the oil, he said it uses a lot, but didn't know it was systemic. I recommended he take it to the dealer as some owners have gotten repairs under warrantee. He said he had already had the turn signals replaced so knows the drill. Not a good advertisement for Kawasaki! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[roncriswell@sbcglobal.net]

I had a friend that had a 1976 AMF Sportster. One day, I went down in the parking lot and saw his bike sitting there with oil all over the back tire on the right side. It was wet with oil. It was wet with oil. I told him "Ed, you really need to get that fixed, you are going to be on your ass real quick if you lean it over." His response "Us Harley guys don't lean em over much in the curves, I ain't worried about it." I told him if you lean it any you are going to be on your ass real quickly. This doesn't even mention the serious carb leak the bike had. He was about to be a Roman candle from gas leakage. Did he ever fix this stuff? The oil leak was toned down some but he never got the carb overhauled. Naw ..... he was busy doing important stuff like buying different seats, fenders and handlebars ....... and also forward controls (which became a death risk if you pushed on the rear brake pedal too hard). Eventually he tried making it into a trike bike but sold the bike for parts in the end. It is good Harley now makes a lot better bikes and Ed got out of motorcycling. Never has my KLR had a leaking problem with gas or oil in 50,000 miles. Criswell

On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Rick McCauley wrote: > > > Very bad for Kawasaki. In all my journeys, I have only seen one > motorcycle that had oil strapped to it. It was an old AMF Harley. > They weren't known for quality. > > Rick > A17 > > --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Craig Young wrote: > > From: Craig Young > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] 2008 KLR Oil user > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 8:13 AM > > I was at my sons Lacrosse game in Ogden yesterday and saw a nice > blue 2008 KLR with a quart of oil strapped to the rack. I asked the > rider how he liked the bike and he said he loved it. When I asked > whats with the oil, he said it uses a lot, but didn't know it was > systemic. I recommended he take it to the dealer as some owners > have gotten repairs under warrantee. He said he had already had the > turn signals replaced so knows the drill. > Not a good advertisement for Kawasaki! > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Rick McCauley]

I would definetly go with the Dooden repair (Sea-Foam) before going through all that. I agree with him Sea Foam works wonders. Rick A17

--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Jeff Khoury wrote: From: Jeff Khoury Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] More choke needed to start, starting more difficult To: "gust0261" Cc: "DSN KLR650" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 11:25 AM Your Pilot circuit is getting clogged. Take off the carb, remove the top cover. Remove slide, diaphragm and needle to prevent damage remove bowl, being careful of the gasket. unscrew pilot jet. clean all the holes in the pilot jet with carb cleaner and a guitar string or strand from a brass wire brush and pressurized carb cleaner. clean the passages by spraying pressurized carb cleaner through the pilot circuit, looking to make sure it comes squirting out the holes in the venturi. take the end off a cotton swab and spin it in the hole where the pilot jet goes. reassemble. run some sea foam through it for a couple of tanks. good as new. -Jeff Khoury Astatic Solutions, LLC. ----- Original Message ----- From: "gust0261" To: "DSN KLR650" Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 7:38:03 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [DSN_KLR650] More choke needed to start, starting more difficult I have a 2007 KLR650. Recently it has been having more trouble starting (have not gotten stranded yet, but worried I might be). It seems to need more and more choke to start and is taking longer and longer to start every time I use it. Any ideas about what could be causing this? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]