still hungry for a non-servicable klr650 cylinder head

[matteeanne@yahoo.com]

Yes, it was the doohickey. To date over 4000 KLR riders have met their fate from DBD. (Death by doohickey) Including a member of this board who lost his life when the shrapnel from the doohickey broke through the casing of the motor and hit him in the jugular vein. Anybody remember the guys name? Was it Paul something? --- Ramey wrote:

> > Yeah, I think thats the one. Ona klr. Was it the > doohickey? > > -----Original Message----- > From: James L. Miller Jr. > [mailto:millerized_2000@...] > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 11:43 AM > To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [DSN_klr650] Re: NKLR The mysterious KLR > fatality > > > > > Initial reports on 23601 >

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> Snif, snif > millerized > > > > --- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "GMcKinney" > > wrote: > > See Post 23674 > > > > Greg > > '95 A9 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Frey [mailto:mike21b@d...] > > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:25 PM > > To: KLR List > > Subject: Re: [DSN_klr650] NKLR The mysterious KLR > fatality > > > > > > > > Doug Herr wrote: > > > > > Also too new but I have a full copy of the > archives. > > > > > > Looks like somebody created a fact user named > Jennifer as a test > > > to find that folk would privately e-mail some > pretty foul crap. > > > They "killed" her off. Not sure if the killoff > was before or > > > after admitting the fraud. > > > > Ahh, we had a similar thing on the Taurus SHO > list. Except it was > a real > > femme fatale trolling for a mate. Or.... > something. No SHO, no go. > She went. > > > > > > > Fred Hink wrote: > > > > > Ya, like when we all rushed to the Penny's > catalog and looked up > our > > > favorite underwear model? > > > > Yeow, Fred, that was YOU peeping into my bedroom > window back when > I was > > 15?!! Dang! > > > > > > > > > > List sponsored by Dual Sport News at > www.dualsportnews.com > > List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: > www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > List sponsored by Dual Sport News at > www.dualsportnews.com > List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: > www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > List sponsored by Dual Sport News at > www.dualsportnews.com > List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: > www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > > > > >

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[Mike Torst]

Hello again - anyone have non-serviceable KLR650 cylinder head for a public-knowledge porting project? Mike Torst A16 aka lasvegasrider -----Original Message----- From: Eric L. Green [mailto:ericnospam@...] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:12 PM To: Jeff Jones Cc: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSN_klr650] Motor teardown info and questions

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Jeff Jones wrote: > the piston and head. My neighbor is a mechanic and checked out my > motor. While more disassembly > and measuring is necessary, he theorized a possible explanation for my > problems based on what he has > seen of my motor so far. He said that a plugged air filter can lead to > enough vacuum that quite a bit of oil can be > sucked past the oil rings. Burning that oil leads to the heavy carbon > deposit. Hot, thick carbon deposits can > lead to precombustion which may have been the knocking I heard. Anyone > care to indulge in idle speculation > on the likelihood that his theory is correct? Well, check the rod bearings and main bearings, of course. But if they're good, he may be correct on what was causing the knocking (i.e., precombustion caused by the carbon buildup), I once had a 500 thumper (Honda Ascot) that had a similar problem that I "fixed" by wire brushing the carbon off the cylinder head and removing loose carbon from the cylinder head (I think that was a clogged air filter problem too). As for what was causing the oil to get into the cylinder, check the valve guides too, usually heavy oil in the cylinder head if the oil ring is intact and not out of spec (I presume you checked the end gap?) means a valve guide is now dumping oil in the cylinder rather than keeping it up in the head. Especially check the intake guides. Heavy vacuum caused by the clogged filter could have easily made an already-existing problem much worse. (Luckily Kawasaki valve guides are available, unlike, say, Honda, who wants you to buy an entire cylinder head to fix one bad valve guide!). -E List sponsored by Dual Sport News at www.dualsportnews.com List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html Yahoo! Groups Links