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--- On Thu, 6/19/08, robrostor wrote: From: robrostor Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Still another broken doohickey! To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Received: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 7:30 PM Hi: Opened my A15 today to replace the doohickey with a aftermarket DH bought from Arrowhead Motorsports. Guess what? The factory DH was split in half. The spring was ok. The sad part is that the eye half was nowhere to be found! Going to replace oil & filter tomorrow to see if I'm lucky! If not I don't know what to do... Any ideas? Mark __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
When my Doohickey broke it shot out the exhaust and hit the car behind me, breaking the windshield and causing the driver to have a terrible crash, better replace before you kill a family, if I recall the doctors left it in the drivers head as it was to dangerous to remove it, you could clearly see in the xray it was another broken doohickey!................................... KL:R Myth #44879-A> > Hi Mark, pull the clutch cover and remove the oil strainer screen, > there is a good chance you will find it there with the excess silicon > gasket material from the factory. That is were I found the missing > section of my spring and from previous posts seems to be a pretty > common place for missing pieces of parts....have a great evening.....Greg > > --- On Thu, 6/19/08, robrostor > wrote: > > From: robrostor > > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Still another broken doohickey! > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > Received: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 7:30 PM > > Hi: > > Opened my A15 today to replace the doohickey with a aftermarket DH > bought from Arrowhead Motorsports. Guess what? The factory DH was split > in half. The spring was ok. The sad part is that the eye half was > nowhere to be found! Going to replace oil & filter tomorrow to see if > I'm lucky! If not I don't know what to do... Any ideas? > > Mark > > __________________________________________________________ > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email > the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and > switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca > http://mail.yahoo.ca> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
split> > Hi: > > Opened my A15 today to replace the doohickey with a aftermarket DH > bought from Arrowhead Motorsports. Guess what? The factory DH was
Hi Mark, If you don't have a magnetic drain plug installed, now would be a good time to do so. My new to me 98'A-12 KLR w/20,500smiles (I'm the fourth owner) had an upgraded dohickey by "Jake"...but no magnetic drain plug when purchased. During the oil change prior to riding from Dallas,TX to central South Dakota, one was installed. Fast forward to the next oil change that happend during the torsion spring upgrade to the "sage-brush" dohickey done during a tech day at Jeff Saline's in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. I pulled the drain plug and nearly fainted...sticking to the magnetic plug was the top half of the dohickey 'circle' that is often featured in the broken dohickey photographs. Jeff says, "No big deal. The drain plug did it job." Would have been nice to have been doing it a lot sooner. The proverb of "Don't sweat the mule going blind, just load the wagon" seems appropriate for this kind of situation--how many miles had that been laying in the bottom. shrug. Who knows--trusting that someone had installed the sage-brush dohickey some years before, but never found all the pieces to the OEM broken dohickey. I would seem to me that a magnetic drain plug is one of the early no- brainer farkles that should be installed. revmaaatin.> in half. The spring was ok. The sad part is that the eye half was > nowhere to be found! Going to replace oil & filter tomorrow to see if > I'm lucky! If not I don't know what to do... Any ideas? > > Mark >
On 6/19/08 7:33 PM, "Greg May" wrote: > > > > Hi Mark, pull the clutch cover and remove the oil strainer screen, there is > a good chance you will find it there with the excess silicon gasket material > from the factory. That is were I found the missing section of my spring and > from previous posts seems to be a pretty common place for missing pieces of > parts....have a great evening.....Greg > > --- On Thu, 6/19/08, robrostor > wrote: > > From: robrostor > > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Still another broken doohickey! > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > Received: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 7:30 PM > > Hi: > > Opened my A15 today to replace the doohickey with a aftermarket DH > bought from Arrowhead Motorsports. Guess what? The factory DH was split > in half. The spring was ok. The sad part is that the eye half was > nowhere to be found! Going to replace oil & filter tomorrow to see if > I'm lucky! If not I don't know what to do... Any ideas? > > Mark > > __________________________________________________________ > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot > with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail > today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Jim, you're a few months late for April 1!!!> > When my Doohickey broke it shot out the exhaust and hit the car behind > me, breaking the windshield and causing the driver to have a terrible > crash,