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backfires and hard to start
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:27 pm
by robinvaneyk
My KLR is startting to become hard to start and is starting to backfire when it turns over. Where should I focus my attention first? (spark plug, valve adjustment, etc...)
Thanks,
Robin
backfires and hard to start
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:39 pm
by revmaaatin
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "robinvaneyk" wrote:
>
> My KLR is startting to become hard to start and is starting to backfire when it turns over. Where should I focus my attention first? (spark plug, valve adjustment, etc...)
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
Battery voltage and valves.
10+ volts when cranking.
and very likely you have tight valves.
revmaaatin.
backfires and hard to start
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:47 pm
by Jeff Saline
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:27:48 -0000 "robinvaneyk"
writes:
> My KLR is startting to become hard to start and is starting to
> backfire when it turns over. Where should I focus my attention
> first? (spark plug, valve adjustment, etc...)
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
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Robin,
Maybe give us a little more information like:
- year of bike
- miles on bike
- maintenance history of valve adjustments etc
- list of engine related mods like air cleaner, carb work or exhaust
changes
- age of fuel in the tank
- temp when trying to start the bike
- procedure you are using to try to start the bike
Without more info we're just guessing.
So for now my guess is you should do a valve adjustment. : )
Best,
Jeff Saline
ABC # 4412 South Dakota Airmarshal
Airheads Beemer Club
www.airheads.org
The Beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota
75 R90/6, 03 KLR650, 79 R100RT
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backfires and hard to start
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:19 pm
by Ken Maas
Robin.. Check your air box. a tight intake valve would certainty make the bike
backfire through the carb. Bu my guess is that you are experiencing a backfire
in the exhaust . I just had the same issue. Bike started ok cold. But stop for
gas or meeting friends and go to leave.. . Hard starting and a backfire. The
battery just barley had enough to get it to go a couple of times. Did a tuneup
late winter!!.. What gives??.
Out with a couple of friend stopped for gas and got thinking ... Feels like its
flooding a bit or loading up .. Wile the others were gassing up, I quickly
pulled the air filter cover . To my surprise i had a passenger.. A mouse had
decided to make a nest in the air box.., And that little bugger stuffed that
thing full in about a week and a half. Cleared the box and the air filter Bike
ran like new .
Best of all it was an ease fix
Ken
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From: revmaaatin
To:
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, April 21, 2011 6:38:52 PM
Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: backfires and hard to start
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "robinvaneyk" wrote:
>
> My KLR is startting to become hard to start and is starting to backfire when it
>turns over. Where should I focus my attention first? (spark plug, valve
>adjustment, etc...)
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
Battery voltage and valves.
10+ volts when cranking.
and very likely you have tight valves.
revmaaatin.
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backfires/ mothballs
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:44 am
by mark ward
I started using mothballsin every storage area, When I had a vet. we put old socks with mothballs by every tire and one by the engine. After 1 yr we found a nest of EATEN WIRES, Never happened again after the Mothballs.
I have friends in FL. that travel most of the yr. they told me about it and how they put them HEAVY in the houses and all storage areas when Gone for a while.
"ENOUGH TO MAKE YOUR!!! EYES WATER" They say.
Mothballs are a pestiside! but hleps with mice, rats, snakes, etc. TOO.
--- On Fri, 4/22/11, Ken Maas wrote:
From: Ken Maas
Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] Re: backfires and hard to start
To: "revmaaatin" ,
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, April 22, 2011, 2:19 AM
Robin.. Check your air box. a tight intake valve would certainty make the bike
backfire through the carb. Bu my guess is that you are experiencing a backfire
in the exhaust . I just had the same issue. Bike started ok cold. But stop for
gas or meeting friends and go to leave.. . Hard starting and a backfire. The
battery just barley had enough to get it to go a couple of times. Did a tuneup
late winter!!.. What gives??.
Out with a couple of friend stopped for gas and got thinking ... Feels like its
flooding a bit or loading up .. Wile the others were gassing up, I quickly
pulled the air filter cover . To my surprise i had a passenger.. A mouse had
decided to make a nest in the air box.., And that little bugger stuffed that
thing full in about a week and a half. Cleared the box and the air filter Bike
ran like new .
Best of all it was an ease fix
Ken
________________________________
From: revmaaatin
To:
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, April 21, 2011 6:38:52 PM
Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: backfires and hard to start
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "robinvaneyk" wrote:
>
> My KLR is startting to become hard to start and is starting to backfire when it
>turns over. Where should I focus my attention first? (spark plug, valve
>adjustment, etc...)
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
Battery voltage and valves.
10+ volts when cranking.
and very likely you have tight valves.
revmaaatin.
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