Wilsons Sandbox

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 14:14, bdholton wrote:

> Anyone have any Stock turn signals they would like to sell. Three out > of four of mine are cracked or broken on my A3. > > Thanks, Bill

I think it was RM who pointed out that the BikeMaster replacements have very brittle stems, but that one could transplant the blinker portion off the BM replacement onto the KLR OEM stems. FWIW. Z DC

Do you need the whole turn signal or just the lens? The lens is much cheaper than the whole assembly. Fred http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com http://www.canyonlandsmotorclassic.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "bdholton" To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:14 PM Subject: [DSN_klr650] Need Turn signals > Anyone have any Stock turn signals they would like to sell. Three out > of four of mine are cracked or broken on my A3. > > Thanks, Bill > > > Checkout Dual Sport News at > http://www.dualsportnews.com > Be part of the Adventure! > > Visit the KLR650 archives at > http://www.xmission.com/~dkenison/cgi/lwgate.cgi/KLR650/archives/ > > Post message: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com > Subscribe: DSN_klr650-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > Unsubscribe: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > List owner: DSN_klr650-owner@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >

On 29 Jul 2002, Zachariah Mully wrote:

>I think it was RM who pointed out that the BikeMaster replacements have >very brittle stems, but that one could transplant the blinker portion >off the BM replacement onto the KLR OEM stems. FWIW.

I don't recall. Search the archives, I guess. RM

It was me. At least I think it was. But the signals I got were K&S. Easy enough to swap if your OEM stalks are still good. Tumu rock aka dat brooklyn bum

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., Zachariah Mully wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 14:14, bdholton wrote: > > Anyone have any Stock turn signals they would like to sell. Three out > > of four of mine are cracked or broken on my A3. > > > > Thanks, Bill > > > I think it was RM who pointed out that the BikeMaster replacements have > very brittle stems, but that one could transplant the blinker portion > off the BM replacement onto the KLR OEM stems. FWIW. > > Z > DC

On May 21, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Ross Lindberg wrote:

> Yesterday I was putting my tank back on and > getting ready for a ride to test some new additions to the bike. I > snapped the connector back together and turned on the fuel. Fuel > leak! Sure enough, it was coming from the new quick disconnect. I > turned off the fuel and pulled it apart to inspect it. One O-Ring had > a big chunk missing out of it and the other was completely gone.

Bummer, Ross! I had the same quick disconnects on my Triumph, but they were OEM. As you've discovered, it's pretty easy to nick one of the rings. I was pretty lucky with mine and didn't get a leak until about three years into owning the bike. I used Sylglide to keep the rings in good shape and make them a little slipperier, reducing the chance to nick 'em. When I finally did get a leak, it was from the plastic connector actually cracking. In fact, Triumph issued a recall on all of them and replaced them with a newer design that was supposed to reduce the cracking problems. (I heard Ducati had the same problem as well.) I decided I didn't trust the plastic ones any longer and found some chrome-plated brass ones made by Colder, IIRC. Those worked quite well, but you still had to take care of the o-rings. You may be able to find the Colder ones at your local Triumph or Ducati shop. (Fun destinations, even if they don't have the parts!) -- Blake Sobiloff http://sobiloff.typepad.com/blakeblog/> http://sobiloff.typepad.com/klr_adventure/> San Jose, CA (USA) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]