Wilsons Sandbox

> Besides,where else can I find a discussion about torn diapragms being > carried on with straight faces?

you're right! that isn't like us really...we'll do better next time (g)... Kurt

Hi Ian, Torn Diaphragms are nothing to joke about. Right up there with Viruses, Dead Babies, Crashed KLRs, and Bombs. You've been here long enough to know that we keep it strictly professional. PC and sensitive. With that said, good luck on your KLR project. Mine has been a blast. I went mountain biking for F-Day yesterday so I didn't get to complete stage 2. My advice from the start is to get a full box of 1 gallon, zip lock bags. Take your parts off in logical order and keep everything related, together. My "bucket o-parts" conversion to baggies took 4 hours with a helper and I have still misplaced parts. A good way would be to download the diagrams from the Buykawasaki.com site and label the bags according to the diagrams. Then you'll have the assembly diagram and all the parts in one bag. Oh yeah, and your 2 pennies are worth less down here. Please make up the difference in your next post. LaterZ Dash At 04:18 PM 6/19/2000 +0000, Ian Smith wrote:

>Just a few rambling thoughts that I've had recently, if I may.... >Thanks to all who contribute and especially to Arne for making it >work. I've been a "member" for about a month now (I was going to say >I'd been "lurking" but......) and joined because I've got a '92 KLR >that I pranged up a couple of years ago and finally - after a >divorce, >remarriage, land-purchase and house construction - plan to rebuild >and >refurbish it this winter once we move out of the shop and into the >house. >I must say that the level of expertise and amount of knowledge that's >here in the group makes me a LOT less apprehensive about starting the >project. You can expect to see more than a few questions about >products, tools and techniques from me once I get going on it. (And I >thought that I was the only one crazy about the bike!!!!) G) >Besides,where else can I find a discussion about torn diapragms being >carried on with straight faces? > >Thanks, > >Ian Smith >Chetwynd, Briti

In a message dated Mon, 19 Jun 2000 1:20:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Kurt Simpson" writes: Besides,where else can I find a discussion about torn diapragms being

> carried on with straight faces?

you're right! that isn't like us really...we'll do better next time (g)...

>>

We have a saying on this list..... "When the going gets tough, we all turn on each other." Gino

> We have a saying on this list..... > > "When the going gets tough, we all turn on each other." > > > Gino

Is it true that you bough a Red 'Stich? What's next - a F650GS-PD Knot - a slow learner, but quick to stick the barb. ps: who won the tire changing contest?

 

[b]-----Original Message-----[/b] [b]From: [/b]Dash Weeks [b]To: [/b]DSN_klr650@egroups.com DSN_klr650@egroups.com> [b]Date: [/b]June 19, 2000 11:02 AM [b]Subject: [/b]Re: [DSN_klr650] my $0.02 (CDN) nklr My advice from the start is to get a full box of 1 gallon, zip lock bags.  Take your parts off in logical order and keep everything related, together. My "bucket o-parts" conversion to baggies took 4 hours with a helper and I have still misplaced parts.  A good way would be to download the diagrams from the Buykawasaki.com site and label the bags according to the diagrams.  Then you'll have the assembly diagram and all the parts in one bag. Excellent idea!

Arne

In a message dated Mon, 19 Jun 2000 3:04:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ephilride@... writes: > Yes, in a moment of weakness, I bought an red Darien. There is an 8 week backlog, however. Plenty of time for me to come to my senses

>> What's next - a F650GS-PD

No, I already own the best dual sport ever made... the KLR650. Thanks for asking though.

>>Knot - a slow learner, but quick to stick the barb.

A man after my own heart.

>>ps: who won the tire changing contest?

No one I guess. I did change a couple of tires at Fred's shop when he was out leading his ride and Rocky was swamped. Gino

Yes, it finally happened to me. A couple of Sunday's ago I was out for a nice road ride, and got caught in a monsoon. Depending which newspaper you read, we got anywhere from the MONTHS total accumulation to twice that in less than a few hours. It was stupid. Anyways, I wasn't smart enough to pull into the many donut shops I was passing to wait it out, I kept riding. What I noticed was happening to my bike is when I rode through the puddles, something was getting wet and cuasing my engine to misbehave - missing, bucking, etc, that kind of stuff. When I was fortunate to find a part of pavement that wasn't under water, my bike ran fine. I'm assuming the front tire was kicking up roadsplash on something electrical. What that is I don't know. It does the same thing to me off road too. If I'm in water too long, it'll miss/buck/etc but if I splash in and then get out of the water, it's fine. Very weird indeed. Karl

> Weird problem #2: booking home this afternoon I got caught on the > interstate in a frog strangler. Visibility was about 50 feet in

this rain.

> The bike had been running great at 5k rpm but lost power quickly as

the

> rain got very heavy. The bike never cut off but wouldn't rev over

2k.

> Pulled over, blipping throttle to keep it running, it would catch,

run to 5

> or 6k, then back to idle.