what size bolt for the flywheel puller

[Doug Pippin]

I also rode my KLR to Daytona. Since I was riding with my cousin from Canada who brought his Suzuki Savage 650 single I decided to ride the KLR to be more compatible with the Savage. We took a route from Asheville NC that I've used previously. No interstate roads except to get through Jacksonville. In fact we rode mostly county roads through South Carolina and Georgia. There was almost no traffic on these roads. Last trip on the sport bike I rode 85+ mph on most of these roads and made great time. With the KLR and even slower Savage we usually rode 65 to 70 mph. Took two days to go down as we had a late snow storm here in the mountains and had to delay our start time to 2:00 pm Was on track for a nice one day return until I ran over something on the road in Georgia that put a 2 inch gash in my rear tire and tube. They were having a GNCC race near Thompson Georgia and one of the riders was kind enough to give me a new HD rear tube and I had a tire shop put a boot over the gash on the inside of the tire. This tire was new when I left but it's toast now. This delayed us enough that it was a two day trip home also. Bike ran great for the most part. I did notice that when the engine got hot in slow traffic it would spark knock (ping) when I lugged the engine. Next fill I put in high test gas and it cured the spark knock. I wouldn't think you'd need 93 octane gas in a KLR. I may try a size bigger main jet. Has anyone else experienced this? Doug ---------- At 01:25 AM 3/8/04, you wrote:

>From: atlantaceo [mailto:ceorob@...] > > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:25 PM > > To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [DSN_klr650] Rode KLR to Bike Week > > > > Had a blast riding my '04 KLR to Daytona from Atlanta. Left at > > 6:00AM on Wed from Alpharetta (30 Mi north of Atlanta) and got there > > in time for a late lunch by the beach. 550 miles on Wed, 450 miles > > on Thursday, then 550 miles home today. > > > > The last 2 years I did the same ride on a GL1800. Obviously it was a > > different ride this time, but the KLR did good. Since it was 70mph > > most of the way, I put it on 85, which had me at about 80mph. I did > > that for about 7 hours without a hiccup. Once I got there, the KLR > > was a lot of fun around town. > > > > Trying to decide now if I can ride the KLR to Alaska this summer or > > if I need something bigger. I did demo the V-Strom 1000 at bike week > > and thought it might make a good choice for Atlanta to Alaska. Any > > thoughts?

---------- Doug Pippin 828-684-8488 dpippin5@... ---------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[winghot3]

what is the proper size . I am trying to put a doohickey on .Have got to find a puller tomorrow.