[dsn_klr650] back to square one / backfiring

[Skip Faulkner]

List, Due to our rampant fires,(thanks Bill & Al) I`ve been putting in 16 hour days, as I do the maintenance on our state aircfaft and contract slurry bombers and am on 24 hr. call. I have quite a few e-mails from friends on this List and it`s easier to respond via the List, sorry. I just wanted to say I`ll get back to you as soon as possible. Since a large portion of the western half of my state is on fire, and seeing not much relief till snowfall, it might be a while. I`ll also continue to be off-List for a while. I do firespotting in the evenings and it`s amazing the number of fires I see from the air that pop up every few evenings after dry lightning storms. For what it`s worth, since logging has been curtailed in much of our state over the last few years, our fire seasons have gotten proggressively worse and this seasons fires being so hard to contain are directly due to the excess of fuels in the woods. It all could have been prevented. Pray for rain. Skip

[Dreas Nielsen]

The fires were worse 50 years ago. Climate has a whole lot more to do with it than politics. But good on ya, Skip.

> -----Original Message----- > From: Skip Faulkner [mailto:msfaul@...] > > List, > Due to our rampant fires,(thanks Bill & Al)

[JD]

My A14 sounded like a popcorn machine during engine braking. I just finished putting on a Big Gun exhaust, K&N OEM filter, and a DJ140/needle at center/2.5 turns on mixture screw. I found that when I drilled out the plug for the mixture screw, it was set from the factory at .25 turns out! No wonder it was backfiring, I have never heard of one being set this lean. Bike is running great with the new mods, doesn't even seem like the same power plant. Throttle response is crisp, no backfiring during engine breaking, exhaust is a bit loud but I can live with it, and seems to have a much smoother power band. Had a great time bonding with the KLR this weekend, it was my first time tearing it down and working on the carb. My thanks to the many posters on this egroup, for it was only with your help (via the archives) that I felt comfortable tackling it. After putting the Big Gun on, I think I can now finally tag a name to her..if I'm not infringing on anyone else, I think I'll call her Godzilla! (She's green, loud, came from Japan, and now shoots fire out her arse.....ok, so maybe the real Godzilla shot fire from the other end, but who cares!) JD A14 2.5K "Godzilla" DF/W, Texas

> Bike runs great > > otherwise, good acceleration, strong mid and top end, no backfiring > > when I shift or back off momentarily, just under engine breaking > > conditions. > > > > Where do I go from here? Any thoughts? > > > > > > > > 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