best bike oil for a klr?

[B. Jr.]

Hi, Dont know if this is the cause of your particular leak. But, i had a KLR customer come in last week with the same prob. Turns out he was consistantly overtightening his chain(not alot,but too tight none the less), which led to his retainer washer wearing thru and allowing his sprocket to slide out just enough to allow oil to leak. I got him a new washer and its not happened again. good luck Bill Jr.

>I have some oil leaking from behind the front sprocket. I checked the >exploded view in the manual and behind the front sprocket is in order: >collar >o-ring >transmission output shaft > >Looked through the archives and could only find the possibility of the chain >being too tight and thus causing an oil leak. >My question is: >Could the o-ring be bad? >Can this problem be taken care of without the cases being taking apart? > >It is a 1993 KLR with 40,000 miles. >I'm going to Copper Canyon on Friday the 8th and I'm concerned this could be >a potential problem. >Any help would be mucho appreciated >Thanks >Brian Coats >brcoats@... > >Visit the KLR650 archives at >http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 >Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... >Let's keep this list SPAM free! > >Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com

[camonett]

Here is a really good discussion of the special oil needs of a motorcycle engine. Read the article "Slip-Sliding Away" under features on this website. The information here mostly agrees with the past List discussions on engine oil. http://motorcyclereport.rivals.com/ Carl