klr afraid of water

[Lou]

Jonathan, congratulations for tracking it down -- because I think you've got it nailed. My wiring-harness damage was not visible either (and I've done my time as an electronics dweeb so I know how to inspect wires), but I am fairly sure the actual problem was at the forward edge of the gas tank which is a chafe point and probably a wire-fatigue point. To this day I do not know whether I had an open-circuit or short-circuit problem, but I do know that a brand-new wiring harness with the ty-wraps (that should have been there in the first place!) has utterly solved the problem [knock on forehead]. Your symptoms (waggling bars to revive it) sound very much like mine. So when the harness recall is done, I suspect that the Beast will run just fine in spite of whatever you may do to it with sprinklers Lou At 12:18 PM 9/14/2009, smthng2002 wrote:

> > I'll trailer her out to the dealer and get the harness recall done > (exhaust recall too, even though they already replaced the can the > last time it fell off... before the recall). After that, I'll turn > a sprinkler on her, and see how she does.

[dave.rogoski]

I went to drain the carb today before pushing the '07 KLR back into the garage and I only saw a small allen (hex)head screw near the bottom of the float bowl on the right hand side. Is this the correct way to drain the carb for temp storage or is this a jet? I would like to make it a routine when putting it back in the barn to drain the carb - ran it dry but I doubt that gets all of the gas out.