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[dsn_klr650] help with spring start-up
Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:43 am
by Randy Logan
Are you sure your carb is filled back up? Open the
drain screw a bit to make sure. I can't remember if
the KLR has a "prime" position on the petcock, but if
it does switch it to there for a few minutes to let
the carb fill back up with fuel. If it doesn't have
it, it may take quite a few tries (starting) before
she'll run again. I have run my old XT battery down
more than once after I drained the carb and tried to
restart it. It just took me turning the throttle
while starting along with alternating the choke on and
off for a bit. Became quite a ritual, matter of fact.
Just don't overheat your starter. Use short bursts
and take your time. A suggested method - Make 3 short
(less than 5 second) attempts, then take a break and
have a beer. New Castle Brown Ale is a great
mechanical assistant. Repeat. After a while you
won't care that much if it doesn't start, but I'm
betting she'll fire right after a bit of fondeling...
I'm not a mechanic either - this is just what works
for me.
Randy
'00 KLR
--- a phipps wrote:
> Okay, my seat from Bill Mayer just arrived in the
> mail a couple of days ago.
> It looks great and feels very comfortable while
> I'm sitting on the bike in
> my garage. I figured I better get my bike going and
> try it out on the road.
> I'm not having much luck though. In the Fall, I
> thought I had done
> everything I needed to do to store it. I changed
> the oil, added fuel
> stabilizer, filled the tank, ran the bike, shut off
> the fuel, drained the
> carb, put a drop of oil in the cylinder, removed the
> battery, cleaned
> everything, ..... I thought she would start right
> up again for me in the
> Spring. Not so. It seems like the engine is not
> getting any gas. I have
> the gas line hooked up and the fuel petcock is set
> to on, I'm getting spark,
> battery is charged, but no go. I have little
> mechanical ability and I'm
> getting frustrated fast. Can anyone offer some
> advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Al
> Fort St. John, BC
>
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[dsn_klr650] help with spring start-up
Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 7:37 am
by Kurt Simpson
> Spring. Not so. It seems like the engine is not getting any gas. I have
> the gas line hooked up and the fuel petcock is set to on, I'm getting
spark,
> battery is charged, but no go. I have little mechanical ability and I'm
> getting frustrated fast. Can anyone offer some advice?
Don't forget to check the on/off switch on the right handlebar...The
professor's methodical approach is excellent...all of us are thinking you
have a fuel problem. So you can start at either end. Fred likes to start at
the carb end...I usually start at the tank end. If you want to ensure that
it is the carb very quickly just loosen a boot and squirt some starting
fluid in the carb. If it starts you can rest assured that you're on the
right track and that you either haven't filled the fuel bowl by holding the
starter long enough to create the vacuum necessary for the fuel to refill
the bowl, or there is a problem with the line, petcock or vacuum line or the
floats are stuck...
Kurt
[dsn_klr650] help with spring start-up
Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 10:51 am
by Weaver, Mark
It seems like the engine is not getting any
> gas. I have
> the gas line hooked up and the fuel petcock is set to on, I'm
> getting spark,
> battery is charged, but no go. I have little mechanical
> ability and I'm
> getting frustrated fast. Can anyone offer some advice?
>
my advice may or may not be useless, but after i installed a fuel filter on
my wife's xt225 (which required me to take the old hose off and replace it,
leaving the carb hoseless for 24hrs), i couldn't get the bike started no
way. finally i took the filter off and it started instantly. hmmmm. i rode
for a while, then put the filter back on. it still started fine and has run
fine ever since. i would surmise that somehow an airbubble or kink or
satanic demon or something was preventing the fuel from getting where it
wanted to go. the carb was probably empty, and the starter probably didn't
turn the engine over hard enough to provide enough draw to drag the fuel
through the empty hose (which had a bit of upward slope at one point in its
travel from petcock to carb, due to the very tight confines of the xt225).
once the carb had some gas, the engine would start, and a running engine had
no problem dragging getting more gas. i guess. i dunno. anyway it works now.
good luck. try all the fine suggestions you've been getting.
mw
[dsn_klr650] help with spring start-up
Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 11:52 pm
by a phipps
Hi Rick,
>Their is a small vacuum line just around the fuel line. If that line
> >isn'thooked up it will not start!
Thanks for the info. I got the bike running tonight. As you suspected, the
vacuum line wasn't attached securely to the fuel petcock. Once I attached
it properly, the bike started up no problem.
>Nice to see their is another BCer on the list. A true
>northerner to boot. I live in northern BC but on the coast. Have you >ever
>heard of Kitimat?
You bet I have. Never been there though. I hope you are having better
weather there than we are having in Fort St. John right now. It is cold and
rainy here today.
Thanks again. Really appreciate the help.
Take care,
Al
A10
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[dsn_klr650] help with spring start-up
Posted: Fri May 05, 2000 4:04 pm
by John Laybolt
I hope that northern BC weather improves before us
easterners begin our invasion!
John(NS)
--- a phipps wrote:
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> >Their is a small vacuum line just around the fuel
> line. If that line
> > >isn'thooked up it will not start!
>
> Thanks for the info. I got the bike running
> tonight. As you suspected, the
> vacuum line wasn't attached securely to the fuel
> petcock. Once I attached
> it properly, the bike started up no problem.
>
> >Nice to see their is another BCer on the list. A
> true
> >northerner to boot. I live in northern BC but on
> the coast. Have you >ever
> >heard of Kitimat?
>
> You bet I have. Never been there though. I hope
> you are having better
> weather there than we are having in Fort St. John
> right now. It is cold and
> rainy here today.
>
> Thanks again. Really appreciate the help.
> Take care,
>
> Al
> A10
>
>
>
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[dsn_klr650] help with spring start-up
Posted: Sat May 06, 2000 7:28 pm
by a phipps
>
>I hope that northern BC weather improves before us
>easterners begin our invasion!
>
>John(NS)
I hope the weather improves soon too. I made a four hour round trip to
Beaverlodge, AB to buy a new tire today. It was VERY cold. The forcast for
today said there was a chance of flurries. I think it only got up to 4
degrees. I ran into some rain, but thankfully did not have to deal with
snow.
Al
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[dsn_klr650] help with spring start-up
Posted: Sat May 06, 2000 8:08 pm
by InWoods13@aol.com
In a message dated 5/6/00 8:29:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
klrphipps@... writes:
<< I hope the weather improves soon too. I made a four hour round trip to
Beaverlodge, AB to buy a new tire today. It was VERY cold. The forcast for
today said there was a chance of flurries. I think it only got up to 4
degrees. I ran into some rain, but thankfully did not have to deal with
snow. >>
Can't imagine not being able to ride year round.
Imagine it makes you appreciate riding that much more though. And gives you
time to tighten everything up, tweek things.
I know snow, but hadn't discovered riding when lived in the North. Here,
I watch the weather carefully too, mostly for rain & wind though.
Tried a dirt riding technique on the KLR, today on the street. Weighing
the outside peg in a tight turn (pushing down on the peg opposite the turn
you're entering, forcing more tire on surface). I make no claim to be a
grizzled street veteran. Is this a street technique?
Wish there were more dual sport types in my area.
Since I bought the KLR, and actually started looking for other dual sport
bikes around here, I've seen exactly (1).
Going on vacation tomorrow for a week, woo hoo! Way overdue & much
needed. No riding, but much snorkeling around the upper Florida Keys.
See you all a week.
Scott (went and got too wordy again)
A14
Sorrento
[dsn_klr650] nklr dirt tips?
Posted: Sun May 07, 2000 12:01 am
by Arne Larsen
Attachments :From: Dash Weeks dweeks@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: [DSN_klr650] NKLR Dirt tips?
> I've played hockey all my life, been on bikes for roughly 15 years, worked
> out religiously for most of my life and it really pays.
Speaking of hockey, which I too think is one of the best leg/lung/heart
conditioners going... WE WON!!! =^)
Cheers,
Arne - Far left with the stylin' hair }=^)