want side stand for klr650

[jayed36]

I did a 250 mile trip on Friday. I checked the oil before I left, it was almost to the top line of the sight glass. When I checked it today, it barely registered to the bottom line of the glass. I've only got 5,000 miles on this bike, and it gets serviced regularly, no signs of an oil leak. Are these things notorious for eating oil? Jeff San Bruno, Ca.

[RM]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, jayed36 wrote:

>I did a 250 mile trip on Friday. I checked the oil before I left, it was >almost to the top line of the sight glass. When I checked it today, it >barely registered to the bottom line of the glass. I've only got 5,000 >miles on this bike, and it gets serviced regularly, no signs of an oil >leak. Are these things notorious for eating oil?

It's funny. I'll go for weeks and never need to add any oil. Then suddenly I'll look at the sight glass and find that the bike ate 10oz or so over the course of 300 miles. I'll top off and it'll be fine again for a long time. No clue. It seems to do this more when the oil has some miles on it. Fresh oil gets consumed the least. It's the rings I guess. Several times I've engine-braked to a stop and smelled oil smoke. 23k is kinda early for rings to start going bad. RM

[dooden]

Maybe your bike was leaned more to the right side when you checked on the way out or leaned too far to the left when checking on the way in. ???? Just a guess Maybe thats why the sight glass oil level indicator is such a "touchy" topic to some on this list ? I would of course pay attention to the level, I have had a small import truck now about 15 or 16 years and about 189k miles, whenever its time for a oil change the level will drop 1/2 ~ 3/4 qt, for no reason I can explain. Almost like its telling me to change it. Just hope my A15 keeps an eye-full all the time. Duden A15 Pilot

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "jayed36" wrote: > I did a 250 mile trip on Friday. I checked the oil before I left, it > was almost to the top line of the sight glass. When I checked it > today, it barely registered to the bottom line of the glass. I've > only got 5,000 miles on this bike, and it gets serviced regularly, no > signs of an oil leak. Are these things notorious for eating oil? > > Jeff > San Bruno, Ca.

[monahanwb]

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "jayed36" wrote:

> I did a 250 mile trip on Friday. I checked the oil before I left,

Yes, some KLRs are oil hogs. My friend Brad has one that he bought with 11000 miles on it and it eats a fair amount, like a quart every 500 or 600 miles sometimes. Of course, he has a lusty throttle hand. How hard you hammer the bike for freeway runs etc has a lot to do with the oil consumption.

[kawboy15]

You could have a ring stuck in it's groove, Had this happen to my Datsun from to rich of fuel mixture, raw fuel that doesn't burn off can cause carbon in the combustion chamber and ring grooves causing them to stick, most of this kinda problem happens during warmup from excessive use of the choke. Do you know if the bikes been rejeted, maybe a little to rich? A compression test should tell if your rings are ok. I don't know what the comp pression is for the klr, maybe someone here at the site does. Dan

[kcuf_oohay_666]

I found that any oil lighter than 20w-50 (ie.. 10-40, 5-30, 5-50 etc) will get consumed faster. Also canyon running will eat more oil. This probably comes from using the engine as a brake. With the throttle close the piston needs to suck air from somewhere so it pulls it from the crankcase and past the valve stems (my guess) and takes some oil with it. the heavier 20-50 helps prevent this.

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "jayed36" wrote: > I did a 250 mile trip on Friday. I checked the oil before I left, it > was almost to the top line of the sight glass. When I checked it > today, it barely registered to the bottom line of the glass. I've > only got 5,000 miles on this bike, and it gets serviced regularly, no > signs of an oil leak. Are these things notorious for eating oil? > > Jeff > San Bruno, Ca.

[jayed36]

Yeah, I've rejetted it with K&N stage 1, K&N oil filter and the Laser Pro Duro exhaust. Interesting comment about warmup and excessive choke use. I full choke it to start it, then about choke for 3 or 4 minutes, then no choke for a few more minutes. It does smoke a bit on start-up ever since I rejetted, but not an outrageous amount. An earlier post mentioned it eating oil at speed, which in this case, most of that ride was freeway miles at 80+. Thanks all, for the comments. Jeff

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "kawboy15" wrote: > You could have a ring stuck in it's groove, Had this happen to my Datsun from to rich of fuel mixture, raw fuel that doesn't burn off can cause carbon in the combustion chamber and ring grooves causing them to stick, most of this kinda problem happens during warmup from excessive use of the choke. Do you know if the bikes been rejeted, maybe a little to rich? A compression test should tell if your rings are ok. I don't know what the comp pression is for the klr, maybe someone here at the site does. Dan

[svnorcal]

If anyone has a side stand or short side stand for klr650 they want to sell, please contact me off list. svnorcal@...