de tour 2006 with jeff and steve * * overview * *

[Eddie]

Hi Ron, How often is subjective. If you ride mainly on the street, I'd say every other oil change is plenty. Off road it much? More often. Cleaning is easy - if messy. If you don't want to spring for foam filter cleaner, get a bucket*, some really warm water and Dawn dish detergent together. Pour a little liquid detergent on the filter, work it in gently but thoroughly then rinse completely in the warm water. Repeat if necessary then dry the filter carefully - no heat! I rolled mine up in a couple of paper towels after squeezing out the excess water. Once it's allowed to air dry, put the filter in a suitable ziploc plastic bag with about two capfuls of clean engine oil, close it up and knead the oil into the filter. Done? Remove the filter and blot it between two more clean paper towels and reinstall it. eddie * A bucket is so you don't get a nice oil ring in your kitchen sink! LOL

> [Original Message] > From: Ron Harris > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> > Date: 1/13/2012 12:18:37 PM > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Air filter > > Ho do I clean how often? >

[Jeffrey]

2 air filters are the best bet so one can dry till next time; they have gotten cheaper/competitive Best not to try and speed up the drying by ringing em. Yeah, I use Dawn or Formula 409 or the K&N filter cleaner depending what I have on hand. Street riding you rarely have to clean the air filter. I probably use too much oil on my filter but it doesn't matter since I opened up my airbox so much. Also, I figure with the extra oil, I don't have to grease the edge(unless I know I am going dirt riding) which creates the biggest mess. J#3

[Jeff Saline]

Listers, Thought I'd spice up the list traffic a bit by resending the De Tour trip reports I did back in June of 2006. It's a couple of weeks worth of reports of one day at a time. Sorry, still no pictures. Here's the overview of the trip. First report should be out in the morning. Hope you enjoy and best, Jeff Saline ABC # 4412 South Dakota Airmarshal Airheads Beemer Club www.airheads.org The Beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota 75 R90/6, 03 KLR650 --------- Forwarded message ---------- Listers, OK Heads, I recently returned from a GREAT!!! trip with Steve Rankin. He and I have ridden together on a trip each of the last three summers. First was summer of 2004 for the Great Divide Ride. Last year was a tour in New Mexico and Arizona and then over to Oklahoma for a small Airhead BMW rally. This year was De Tour. Steve first contacted me last fall saying his brother-in-law John in Chino Valley, AZ had asked him what his next trip was. He came up with a blank. Shortly after that we began planning what I first dubbed as Da Trip. During the second day of actual riding we renamed it De Tour as we were hitting them fairly regularly. So all last fall, winter, and into this spring we've been e-mailing back and forth, routes and also our thoughts and ideas about this ride. We decided we wanted to start the trip from my home in the Beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota and then visit Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and end the trip in Oklahoma. Steve would then head south to West, Texas and I'd head north to South Dakota. We both had ideas of how we envisioned the trip and made a few changes to our ideas to make sure we were both getting the trip we wanted. Planning with only two people involved is pretty easy. So for about 8 months we developed routes trying to stay mostly on dirt roads when possible and we both realized there would be some problems putting the electronic routes to use on the ground. We developed a numbering system for the routes to help identify them and keep them in order on the GPS receivers so they would be easy to select as needed. We made adjustments to the route as needed along the way. Some were due to private property issues or terrain too rough for us on fully loaded KLRs. A few times we had roads closed due to fire dangers or fires in progress. This was supposed to be fun and we tried to keep it that way. The trip ended in New Mexico and just seemed to come to a natural end. Steve got to ride home most of the way with his son who was in Canyon TX for a few days. I got to ride home through the mountains of New Mexico and Colorado. Here's the short version of the trip. Steve came to South Dakota and we did an Airhead BMW tech day. After everyone left we cleaned up and took a day to work on a few bike projects. We left on Tuesday, 30 May. Day One: We left and headed through the Black Hills to Wyoming. Hotel. Day Two: Up to the Hole-in-the-Wall near Kaycee WY. Camp. Day Three: Down to Caspar WY and then Independence Rock and on to Muddy Gap. Camp. Day Four: Through the Great Divide Basin to Wamsutter, then south and west to Flaming Gorge. Camp w/showers. Day Five: Oil changes in Vernal UT then south till about 6 pm. Camp. Day Six: Continue south of I-70 and then west in the dirt to 128 and into Moab. South to Blanding and west. Camp. Day Seven: South to Valley of the Gods, the Navajo Indian Reservation to Flagstaff AZ. Camp KOA. Day Eight: West of Flagstaff head south to Chino Valley. Sponge off in-laws. Day Nine: Steve buys a used 2006 KLR in Prescott AZ. Sponge off in-laws. Day Ten: Swap stuff from 97 to 06 KLR. Takes all day. Sponge off in-laws. Day Eleven: Head east towards Jerome then over to Strawberry and along the Mogollon Rim. Camp. Day Twelve: Over to Forest Lakes and south to Carizio, north to Showlow and then east to Springerville. Hotel. Day Thirteen: South of Alpine on 191 then east towards Reserve. North to Pie Town and end 15 miles south of Grants. BLM Camping area. Day Fourteen: Change oil. Go about 25 miles north of I-40 and the road ends. Head to Albuquerque. Sponge off friends. Day Fifteen: Bike maintenance, visit BMW dealer, relax. Sponge off friends. Day Sixteen: De Tour is over. Steve heads to TX. Jeff heads north through mountains in NM and CO. Camp. Day Seventeen: Head north through CO, WY and into South Dakota. Home at about 6:45 pm. So that in a nut shell is De Tour. More to follow as I get rested and write up each day. I also plan on doing an equipment review of some of the items that were used. Best, Jeff Saline ABC # 4412 South Dakota Airmarshal Airheads Beemer Club www.airheads.org The Beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota 75 R90/6, 03 KLR650, 79 R100RT . . ____________________________________________________________ 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick Has Botox Doctors Worried http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4f13334e5738815216d2st04vuc

[revmaaatin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Ron Harris wrote:

> > Ho do I clean how often? > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Ron-- The quick and dirty answer: when required. If the pig is sucking hind teat, runs like it is at 1/2 power, it probably needs a filter change. For example- If you are #3 or #4 and are following closely on a gravel road, you 'might' have to change it daily. cough. cough again.... How much is a lot of dirt-- I saw where a rider (#3) with Big Dog Mark Sampson reported he had to use a spoon to get the dirt out of the air box before he could remove the filter! "It was a wonder the bike would even run" was their comments. When campaigning the KLR over 100's of miles on consecutive days of pure gravel roads, I check and change every other day. It would be really hard to say, "I cleaned my air filter to often" though, every time you clean it, it has some wear-tear on the foam as well. shrug. Not cleaning it often enough has some wear-tear on the pig. (I keep at least one spare filter for everybike, all the time, but that is just me.) One thing you will do/notice, after removing the filter, use a flashlight and look inside the filter carefully. If the interior of the filter is streaked with dirt, you have waited to long! Compare that to the exterior condition and then change it sooner than the present condition the next time. I personally have drank the NOTOIL filters and oiling system KOOL-AID as it is biodegradable and washes out in the sink. The filter treatment is pretty sticky, so use some 'blue' disposable gloves when applying. I have been using it in 10 dirt bikes for over 5 years (One bike for 8 years with good satisfaction. You might find the NOTOIL products on sale---=1/2 price! Look closely at the HONDA and KAWI air filter-oil systems; you will notice that it is packaged by NOTOIL (at least it was last fall). I have used all three, NOTOIL, Honda and KAWI treatment systems on OEM filters as well as the NOTOIL filters for each of the bikes. = Honda 70/80/100;'s Kawi 250/300/650's and the Yamaha 225. Follow the instructions explicitly. smile. The KoolAid is available here: http://www.notoil.com/ revmaaaatin.