exhaust gas analyzer

[donavos]

Hi All, This was my first winter with my 95 KLR 650 so please excuse the newbie in me. I didn't do much to the KLR to winterize it (except take the battery out and charge it indoors). I did add gasoline stabilizer (stabile brand) into the gas tank (although stupid me, i didnt run the KLR afterwards). In any case I re-installed the charged battery and with the choke in the full open (and everyother position) I tried to fire the KLR up but the engine wouldn't turn over. I tried adding fresh gas but no luck. I also tried to give it some throttle but still no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Big D

[kdxkawboy@aol.com]

By wouldn't turn over do you mean the engine didn't fir up or the starter didn't turn over? If the former, have you tried a new spark plug? In a message dated 2003-03-16 6:56:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, lothar154@... writes:

> > In any case I re-installed the charged battery and with the choke in > the full open (and everyother position) I tried to fire the KLR up > but the engine wouldn't turn over. I tried adding fresh gas but no > luck. I also tried to give it some throttle but still no luck. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > >

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[dooden]

Engine wont turn over or wont start ? Mine sat all winter too, battery in bike, in unheated garage, plugged in the little trickle charger once and a while... Mine just cranked and cranked till the battery was just about dead, so plugged the little charger back in did a few other things, tried again.. it wanted to start.. fire once and I would let go of choke and it would die.. then battery too weak again... Figured heck with that, hooked up a real battery charger to battery terminals, switched the charger to manual @ 2 Amp charge for a few minutes.. then to high setting as I was hitting the starter button.. Fired then, but would only run with choke pulled open as tight as I dared for a minute or two, got kinda nervious at first she was smoking pretty hard (blueish color) then it started to clear up, musta added a bit more Sta-Bil than I needed last fall. Good luck... I was about ready to bump-start it, but figured I really dont want to look like a fool in my driveway. Dooden

--- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "donavos" wrote: > Hi All, > > This was my first winter with my 95 KLR 650 so please excuse the > newbie in me. I didn't do much to the KLR to winterize it (except > take the battery out and charge it indoors). I did add gasoline > stabilizer (stabile brand) into the gas tank (although stupid me, i > didnt run the KLR afterwards). > > In any case I re-installed the charged battery and with the choke in > the full open (and everyother position) I tried to fire the KLR up > but the engine wouldn't turn over. I tried adding fresh gas but no > luck. I also tried to give it some throttle but still no luck. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > > Big D

[Devon Jarvis]

For jetting. It can tell you just how rich or lean you are running at whatever RPM you do the reading at. No guesses, estimates, or seat-of-the-pants dyno. Especially with oxygenated gasolines, plugs aren't so easy to read. Also, it's easy to do plug readings at full throttle, but is your carb lean or rich at 1/3 throttle, at 4,000rpm? Basically you can see exactly which settings need to be changed. You could bolt on an aftermarket pipe, and plot how the jetting is affected by the new pipe. It would also be a lot quicker, since you wouldn't need to do a dyno run, then change the jetting and run it again (was it lean or rich?), then change and run it again..... BTW when you have a jek kit installed, the shop doesn't do this. They dyno the bike, then install the jet kit and dyno it again. There's no fine tuning. From what I've seen most jet kits and aftermarket carb setups are definitely set up on the rich side. Rich enough that there may be a bit of performance to be had by going a touch leaner. Devon A15 Zpokez72@... wrote:

> > Please excuse my ignorance but what exactly would you need an exhaust gas > analyzer for? > Cactus Jack >