Wilsons Sandbox

Have a local shop replace the tire, purchase it from whereever, take the front tire off, which is the easy part, throw it in your trunk and take it and the new tire, before you leave on a big trip and get it taken care of, better to take care of everything that you know needs it before heading out, really anywhere. It was $20.00 a tire in my area, DFW.

> > > Gonna be riding to ADVrider WestFest in Buena Vista CO soon, and I > have to swap out my front tire. Im as poor as they come and will do it > myself if I have to but sadly have never changed a tire, only read > about it, and would like to know in the event I am stranded. > If anyone is in the area (dont see puget sound dsn anymore) email me > direct at matteeanne@... > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >

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The front tire on a KLR is as easy to change as a bicycle tire, honestly. Thanks CA Stu

> > Gonna be riding to ADVrider WestFest in Buena Vista CO soon, and I > > have to swap out my front tire.

To me, the cam bearing caps on the KLR look awfully close to the shim buckets. The edge is almost over them and in the way. As easy as taking the caps off and moving the cams up a bit is, I'd rather do that than fight getting the shims in/out. Even my mechanic gave pause to the prybar tool method. We didn't even try it. Maybe we should have. But, with access to high quality tools, I couldn't pass up tinkering. =) eddie

> [Original Message] > From: Harry Seifert > To: transalp 1 ; KLR650 list

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> Date: 6/9/2009 7:18:15 PM > Subject: RE: [DSN_KLR650] more on Monday's valve project. can you use the

Kaw. 57001-113 tool?

> > Eddie, > > The valve train is exactly the same as the venerable Z-1. > The tool I wrote of was used with the Z-1 so the cams didn't have to be > messed with to change shims. > > Buddy > > >