Greetings all, I am a new person to join the group but have been
searching/readin/lurkin around the group archives since I found my
KLR in June. ('90 KLR650 35,000 miles mainly stock 'cept cobra pipes)
Anyhow she ran like a beast all summer and I tacked on another 7k or
so of trails and highway. Recently she has told me that shes is done
for the winter and wants some TLC. (left work one day to a leaky
tank ... cleaned that up and half way home the bolts came loose off
the calipers and the whole thing is dangling by the cable and I have
no front brakes ... hmmm)
Anyhow again, I am going to have way too much time on my hands in the
month of january and plan a complete tare down and rebuild of the
whole deal. I am looking to see if any manuals exist for this
daunting task or am I on my own?
I have worked on rebuilding cars but not a bike and not without help.
SO I am thinking I can handle most of the rebuild 'cept perhaps the
carb and clutch (figure I'll just get a new carb anyhow for better
performance) and the clutch will be a challenge (or perhaps not, I
would never think of doing more than a fluid change on a car
transmission)
If a manual does not exist I was considering a web based log of my
adventures of the rebuild (I have my digital camera and a million
shots of the bike already so why not keep going)
So if anyone could post or e-mail me with any possible manual info or
perhaps give me the nudge to WEB it.
I have the 2 manuals from Kaw so I don't need those and I am about to
download all the parts list diagrams and #'s to help me track the
parts I rip off.
Thanks a million (man that was long winded)
-S
oiling nipples
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oiling nipples
Hmmmm.......I use WD-40 to seat my tires. No trouble so far. Bogdan> I don't think I'd want to put any penetrating oil on spoke nipples. I'd > be > worried about distillate getting into the tire casing, and there may be an > > advantage to keeping the threads dry so the nipple/spoke combo will stay > put.
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