swiching to synthetic oil

[Mark St.Hilaire, Sr]

> I am going to be changing the oil in my klr real soon and all this > talk of synthetic oil convinced me to give it a try and see what > happens. This will be the first time I've ever put it in to any of > my autos and was wondering if there is anything one has to do about > any left over dinno oil in the motor, or is that little bit not > going to hurt anything?

No sir, they mix without any difficulties. In fact, you can buy oils that are advertised as a blend of conventional and synthetic. Castrol comes to mind on that one...

> Since I had the oil out I figured I'd check and clean the oil > screen, just whaiting for the gaskit to come in. > And also what where the torq spects for the cover bolts?

It's all here: http://klr6500.tripod.com/oilscreen.htm Mark --------------------------------------- KLR650 Motorcycle Website: http://klr6500.tripod.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Keep unwanted email out. Visit www.spamsubtract.com for more information.

[wildlands1]

so, IMS is the only one who makes a bigger tank,eh? wow a whole gallon! will it fit inside happy-trails cool new front crash bars? is the screw on cap lockable? will a big tank bag cause vent probs? does it use spooky reserve switch? how big is reserve? lastly, anyone know how to, make/adapt/ buy, a real dashboard fuel gauge? tom