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Bill
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cracked engine case repair

Post by Bill » Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:34 am

About a year ago I toyed with the idea of having my case welded. I cracked the case right next to the oil drain plug. Rather than pull the engine and take it to a welder, I patched it with JB Stick Weld. It's gone through a triple digit summer and a single digit winter. It's still holding oil. FWIW- It's been ten years since I bought my A15 new off the showroom floor. This is the longest I have ever held on to a motorcycle. It was wrecked inside a month (hit a wild boar). Six years later it was disassembled by my business partner while I was in Costa Rica (I still don't know why). I've ridden thousand mile days in the stock seat. I've broke bones. I've ridiculed street squids on back roads. Oh, the memories... Bill A-15 with pvc tool tube, progressive springs, center stand, home-made volt gauge, aftermarket shift lever, and so much more...

revmaaatin
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cracked engine case repair

Post by revmaaatin » Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:30 pm

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Bill" wrote:
> > About a year ago I toyed with the idea of having my case welded. I cracked the case right next to the oil drain plug. Rather than pull the engine and take it to a welder, I patched it with JB Stick Weld. It's gone through a triple digit summer and a single digit winter. It's still holding oil. > > FWIW- It's been ten years since I bought my A15 new off the showroom floor. This is the longest I have ever held on to a motorcycle. It was wrecked inside a month (hit a wild boar). Six years later it was disassembled by my business partner while I was in Costa Rica (I still don't know why). I've ridden thousand mile days in the stock seat. I've broke bones. I've ridiculed street squids on back roads. Oh, the memories... > > Bill > A-15 with pvc tool tube, progressive springs, center stand, home-made volt gauge, aftermarket shift lever, and so much more... >
So, Do you like the bike? revmaaatin. who has 7.5 years on his A-15 (longest I ever owned a motorcycle as well.)

roncriswell@sbcglobal.net
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cracked engine case repair

Post by roncriswell@sbcglobal.net » Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:29 pm

I keep everything. 99 KLR with 50,000 plus, 83 Yamaha IT 175, 83 Hobie cat (new sails and haven't had out in 10 years), and old sailboard with all the sails, 2001 Concours. I need to learn how to sell. I even had old Hot Rod and Rod & Custom mags from when I was 14. Jeez that was 50 years ago. I need a shrink or a drink. Criswell
On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:30 PM, revmaaatin wrote: > > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Bill" wrote: > > > > About a year ago I toyed with the idea of having my case welded. I cracked the case right next to the oil drain plug. Rather than pull the engine and take it to a welder, I patched it with JB Stick Weld. It's gone through a triple digit summer and a single digit winter. It's still holding oil. > > > > FWIW- It's been ten years since I bought my A15 new off the showroom floor. This is the longest I have ever held on to a motorcycle. It was wrecked inside a month (hit a wild boar). Six years later it was disassembled by my business partner while I was in Costa Rica (I still don't know why). I've ridden thousand mile days in the stock seat. I've broke bones. I've ridiculed street squids on back roads. Oh, the memories... > > > > Bill > > A-15 with pvc tool tube, progressive springs, center stand, home-made volt gauge, aftermarket shift lever, and so much more... > > > > So, > Do you like the bike? > > revmaaatin. who has 7.5 years on his A-15 (longest I ever owned a motorcycle as well.) > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Mike Frey
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cracked engine case repair

Post by Mike Frey » Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:03 pm

Oh, the memories..... keeping bikes, and JB weld...... I bought my brand new KLR exactly 7 years ago. Still have it. Have 2, actually. The newer one is an '06 in the super-fastestest Kawasaki Green "1 year only" color. That's far from the longest ever owned, though: I still have my 1976 Suzuki GT-750 "Water Buffalo". I've had that one for 30 years. It has a JB Welded area on one of the exhaust pipe bolt threads on the cylinder. Still holding 5 years later. (I don't ride it much, though). I have another GT-750 donor bike that I've had for 33 years. Those 2 Suzukis are the only bikes I kept from when I went into "riding hibernation" during child rearing. I wish I had kept all of my '70s bikes. I had some good ones. Mike revmaaatin wrote:
> > > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > , "Bill" wrote: > > > > About a year ago I toyed with the idea of having my case welded. I > cracked the case right next to the oil drain plug. Rather than pull > the engine and take it to a welder, I patched it with JB Stick Weld. > It's gone through a triple digit summer and a single digit winter. > It's still holding oil. > > > > FWIW- It's been ten years since I bought my A15 new off the showroom > floor. This is the longest I have ever held on to a motorcycle. It was > wrecked inside a month (hit a wild boar). Six years later it was > disassembled by my business partner while I was in Costa Rica (I still > don't know why). I've ridden thousand mile days in the stock seat. > I've broke bones. I've ridiculed street squids on back roads. Oh, the > memories... > > > > Bill > > A-15 with pvc tool tube, progressive springs, center stand, > home-made volt gauge, aftermarket shift lever, and so much more... > > > > So, > Do you like the bike? > > revmaaatin. who has 7.5 years on his A-15 (longest I ever owned a > motorcycle as well.) > >

Jeff Khoury
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cracked engine case repair

Post by Jeff Khoury » Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:47 pm

I plan to keep mine until the wheels fall off. I may sell my old '79 Honda and pick up a new(ish) street bike, but the KLR is permanent. -Jeff Khoury
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Frey" To: "List KLR" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 4:03:36 PM Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Cracked engine case repair Oh, the memories..... keeping bikes, and JB weld...... I bought my brand new KLR exactly 7 years ago. Still have it. Have 2, actually. The newer one is an '06 in the super-fastestest Kawasaki Green "1 year only" color. That's far from the longest ever owned, though: I still have my 1976 Suzuki GT-750 "Water Buffalo". I've had that one for 30 years. It has a JB Welded area on one of the exhaust pipe bolt threads on the cylinder. Still holding 5 years later. (I don't ride it much, though). I have another GT-750 donor bike that I've had for 33 years. Those 2 Suzukis are the only bikes I kept from when I went into "riding hibernation" during child rearing. I wish I had kept all of my '70s bikes. I had some good ones. Mike revmaaatin wrote: > > > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > , "Bill" wrote: > > > > About a year ago I toyed with the idea of having my case welded. I > cracked the case right next to the oil drain plug. Rather than pull > the engine and take it to a welder, I patched it with JB Stick Weld. > It's gone through a triple digit summer and a single digit winter. > It's still holding oil. > > > > FWIW- It's been ten years since I bought my A15 new off the showroom > floor. This is the longest I have ever held on to a motorcycle. It was > wrecked inside a month (hit a wild boar). Six years later it was > disassembled by my business partner while I was in Costa Rica (I still > don't know why). I've ridden thousand mile days in the stock seat. > I've broke bones. I've ridiculed street squids on back roads. Oh, the > memories... > > > > Bill > > A-15 with pvc tool tube, progressive springs, center stand, > home-made volt gauge, aftermarket shift lever, and so much more... > > > > So, > Do you like the bike? > > revmaaatin. who has 7.5 years on his A-15 (longest I ever owned a > motorcycle as well.) > > ------------------------------------ List Sponsors - Dual Sport News: http://www.dualsportnews.com Arrowhead Motorsports: http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok: http://www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html Member Map: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSN_KLR650/app/peoplemap/view/map Group Apps: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSN_KLR650/grouplets/subscriptionsYahoo! Groups Links

cycletip
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cracked engine case repair

Post by cycletip » Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:25 pm

Bill and the rest who replied to this post. You made my day! +1 here, we have mucho in common! BTW - that JB weld seems to be amazing stuff. What's best to use, the quick or regular? Does it matter? One any better than the other?

skypilot110
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cracked engine case repair

Post by skypilot110 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:45 am

I used JB to glue a piece of the crank case of a Honda 350 back in place in the outback, I smashed into a rock in one of the many spectacularly unsofisticated manuevers I made durring that ride. All that was available to me was the regular which was packaged for military use in single use packets. Since then they have made the 5 minute stuff. As far as I know the 5 minute has a lower tensil strength but allows use in more difficult settings.. Using it is like anything else. clean clean clean, sand, clean clean clean, use, wait. In my case I had emerry cloth for the sand part and bought a bottle of vodka to clean with. the crash, and persuent hole in the crank case, had convieniently elliminated the oil removal as a step but I had to pull the gas tank and flip the bike on its seat and handle bars, like a kids bike, to keep the residual oil from the area. remember that is not just that it is clean when you start mixing but you dont want any contaminents durring the application or setting up part either. Plan your work accordingly. I stuffed a t shirt in the hole then used paper towels with the vodka to clean inside and out where the case part needed to be put back in place. it wasnt a perfect fit anymore but the JB filled the odd space well enough. It was not pretty but it never leaked oil and held up very well. The bike completed another thousand + very hard miles after that before being given to a parking lot attendant where I took a flight back to Japan. Chris
--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "cycletip" wrote: > > Bill and the rest who replied to this post. You made my day! +1 here, we have mucho in common! BTW - that JB weld seems to be amazing stuff. What's best to use, the quick or regular? Does it matter? One any better than the other? >

Tengai Mark Van Horn
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cracked engine case repair

Post by Tengai Mark Van Horn » Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:22 pm

This guy named Tumu cratered his engine case at one of my annual KLR shindigs about 6 years ago. He put a rock through an aluminum skidplate and made his engine case look like the surface of Mars with a network of cracks, and motor oil ran through it like a colander. We cleaned it with gasoline and plated the bottom of the engine with 3-4 tubes of QuikSteel and he rode home to Vermont with no problems. Not sure how long he left it that way afterwards. Mark At 2:45 PM +0000 2/17/11, skypilot110 wrote: I used JB to glue a piece of the crank case of a Honda 350 back in place in the outback, I smashed into a rock in one of the many spectacularly unsofisticated manuevers I made durring that ride. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

dat brooklyn bum
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cracked engine case repair

Post by dat brooklyn bum » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:03 pm

The repair held for over two years. Then the engine self-destructed because I had bent the frame enough to preclude doing a valve adjustment without pulling the engine. I figured I had resurrected that particular bike enough times already so I rode it into the ground (literally in some cases). da Vermonster aka Tumu
--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Tengai Mark Van Horn wrote: > > This guy named Tumu cratered his engine case at one of my annual KLR > shindigs about 6 years ago. He put a rock through an aluminum > skidplate and made his engine case look like the surface of Mars with > a network of cracks, and motor oil ran through it like a colander. We > cleaned it with gasoline and plated the bottom of the engine with 3-4 > tubes of QuikSteel and he rode home to Vermont with no problems. Not > sure how long he left it that way afterwards. > > Mark > > > At 2:45 PM +0000 2/17/11, skypilot110 wrote: > > > I used JB to glue a piece of the crank case of a Honda 350 back in > place in the outback, I smashed into a rock in one of the many > spectacularly unsofisticated manuevers I made durring that ride. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >

revmaaatin
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cracked engine case repair

Post by revmaaatin » Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:24 pm

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Tengai Mark Van Horn wrote:
> > This guy named Tumu cratered his engine case at one of my annual KLR > shindigs about 6 years ago. He put a rock through an aluminum > skidplate and made his engine case look like the surface of Mars with > a network of cracks, and motor oil ran through it like a colander.
Punctured an aluminum skid plate AND cracked a case? on a rock? Now that requires pictures. hmmm. They way I hear, it was more like 'this': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun or maybe it was a .30-06 [sic] 'rock' as tumu was escaping? revmaaatin.

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