dohickey kit

[skmilner2003]

Good Morning - Fellow KLR operators. I've fallen and I can't get up!! 1993 KLR 650 - 10K, sat in garage for past year. Pulled it out and BD - replaced battery and changed Mobil 1 in crankcase. Ran fine for first day - It will now only run for just about 20-30 seconds at a clip and thats only every 10-15 minutes. It will start and run fine - then fall flat dead like someone removed the sparking bolt!!! I've accomplished the following: 1) Charged new Batt. to spec. 2) In a prior life bypassed/removed stupid side stand safety and clutch saftey switches (has operated for hundreds of miles w/o them). 3) Tested removed fuel cock in tank. It operates fine and the bike seems to be getting plenty of good quality fuel. Can smell raw fuel when I crank-over and no start. By the way - Why in the HELL did Kawasaki design and install that goofy, stupid vaccuum safety device on the fuel cock????!!!!! No wonder the damn thing weighs more than a battle dressed M1A1 Abrams!!!! 4) Pulled the tank and pulg and checked the spark. It sparks everytime the engine is turned-over but appears to be a weak one (not much "spice" or intensity - blueish/orange - sort of muted spark). Not really sure what to do next. To me the spark doesn't look quite healthy or correct and I can only imagine with cylinder pressure added-on it gets worse. If anyone has any experience and/or advice I'd be very grateful for it. It guess fast-approaching step 5 is to roll 'er off the end of the ferry boat!! Thanks in advance - Scott

[Zachariah Mully]

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 09:41, skmilner2003 wrote:

> 3) Tested removed fuel cock in tank. It operates fine and the bike > seems to be getting plenty of good quality fuel. Can smell raw fuel > when I crank-over and no start. By the way - Why in the HELL did > Kawasaki design and install that goofy, stupid vaccuum safety device > on the fuel cock????!!!!! No wonder the damn thing weighs more than a > battle dressed M1A1 Abrams!!!!

You didn't mention in your previous paragraphs if you'd drained the old gas out and put in fresh gas... If you didn't, then you should, as well as drain the float bowl and dump a 1/4 bottle of Seafoam or Techron additive in there to clean up all the crap in your carb.

> 4) Pulled the tank and pulg and checked the spark. It sparks > everytime the engine is turned-over but appears to be a weak one (not > much "spice" or intensity - blueish/orange - sort of muted spark).

The KLR doesn't seem to throw much spark. I have inspected three perfectly good ignition systems and all three looked to have weak spark, even though I knew otherwise. Nature of the beast, I guess. I very much suspect it's crap in your carb and old gas, try the easy stuff before you start chasing ghosts in the ignition system. Z DC A5X A12X

[Mark St.Hilaire, Sr]

> is every body still using the kit from sagebrush? or has a better one > come along? would like web address to look at and order.Thanx.

There is a *different* one, but either of the two aftermarket levers would be a HUGE improvement over stock. Dave "Jake" Jakeman at Sagebrush Machine Shop: Sagebrush lever http://sagebrushmachine.netfirms.com/ 435-387-5575 Fred Hink at Arrowhead Motorsports: Eagle lever http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/index.html 435-259-7356 Mark How do I set my Laser printer to "Stun"? KLR650 Motorcycle Pages: http://klr6500.tripod.com/ HomePage: http://home.adelphia.net/~msaint/index.html My Adelphia Email can be "iffy." If you don't get a response, please try: KLR6500@...