need one spoke....

[cake778die586]

I finally got around to changing my "dohickey". I have a 1999 with 10k on it and when I opened it up the adjuster was in two pieces. The "collar" had broken in half just above the weld the pieces were still there and the spring was o.k. Replaced with adjuster and spring from Eagle man. via Fred Hink. The whole job took a bit more that an hour and was one of the eaisiest things I've done to the KLR easier than a valve adjustment. The motor was alot quieter when I started it back up. I don't want to scare anyone about this but I was one of those that thought it wouldn't be my bike that was broke but it was. I am glad I got to it before any damage was caused. Thanks to all that wrote the excellent instructions for the job they really made the project go easy

[Thor Lancelot Simon]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:38:08PM -0000, cake778die586 wrote:

> I finally got around to changing my "dohickey". I have a 1999 with 10k > on it and when I opened it up the adjuster was in two pieces. The > "collar" had broken in half just above the weld the pieces were still

Please, *please* be sure to report this on the NHTSA web site: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/index.cfm This is the principal means of tracking these defects in the U.S. market for both the government *and* the motorcycle manufacturers. If you find broken internal engine components and don't report them, it skews the statistics and deprives everyone of valuable data for making the problem right. Thor

[Zachariah Mully]

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 17:12, Devon Jarvis wrote:

> This is obviously the proper and thorough thing to do, and > good advice. If the spoke had broken, I would probably > relace it. But all the other spokes are tight, the rim is > straight and in good condition. I am guessing that someone > locked the wheel by a spoke and it was the victim of a theft > attempt.

Yeah, I know, I didn't mean to belabor the obvious, but my point was that if the wheel was true, it's much easier to relace a laced wheel than it is to start from scratch and spend 90% of your time undoing and redoing your lacing work. One of these days I want to get black Excel rims and lace them up with black spokes and nipples. That'd look sweet. Z DC A5X A12X