re-pack a supertrapp?

[Rick S.]

Dual-Star.com claims to sell the genuine military gas tank for the KLR, but recent pics of the USMC KLR shows that the fuel tank has the coolant tank attached to the front left shroud area. The "military tank" sold by Dual-Star and IMS does not have the coolant tank attached.. What's the real deal?

[kdxkawboy@aol.com]

In a message dated 2004-04-22 5:33:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, captive@... writes:

> > > Dual-Star.com claims to sell the genuine military gas tank for the > KLR, but recent pics of the USMC KLR shows that the fuel tank has > the coolant tank attached to the front left shroud area. > The "military tank" sold by Dual-Star and IMS does not have the > coolant tank attached.. What's the real deal? > >

The Military has two different tanks. one is the big, 6.5 gallon IMS and the other a smaller 3-4 gallon tank that has the extra coolant tank. Pat G'ville, Nv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Tengai Mark Van Horn]

At 8:54 AM -0400 4/22/04, kdxkawboy@... wrote:

>In a message dated 2004-04-22 5:33:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >captive@... writes: > >> >> >> Dual-Star.com claims to sell the genuine military gas tank for the >> KLR, but recent pics of the USMC KLR shows that the fuel tank has >> the coolant tank attached to the front left shroud area. >> The "military tank" sold by Dual-Star and IMS does not have the >> coolant tank attached.. What's the real deal? >> >> > >The Military has two different tanks. one is the big, 6.5 gallon IMS and the >other a smaller 3-4 gallon tank that has the extra coolant tank.

The USMC tank is 8 gallons. There are some gas-powered KLR650s floating around the military, so maybe those are the ones using the IMS 6.5-gal tank. Mark http://www.reelrider.com

[Barnaby Robson]

here's a wacko theory ... maybe the military ordered a bunch of tanks but when they arrived they found they should redesign the tank to have the coolant attachment like we see in the pictures. as a result there was a glut of 'military tanks' which were now useless to the military and were thus sold on to consumers. now the public will have to wait for some other redesign so we can get the now real military tanks. wacko huh ? barnaby. -----Original Message----- From: Rick S. [mailto:captive@...] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:32 AM To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_klr650] Military KLR question Dual-Star.com claims to sell the genuine military gas tank for the KLR, but recent pics of the USMC KLR shows that the fuel tank has the coolant tank attached to the front left shroud area. The "military tank" sold by Dual-Star and IMS does not have the coolant tank attached.. What's the real deal?

[Judson D. Jones]

--- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "Barnaby Robson" wrote:

> here's a wacko theory ... > > maybe the military ordered a bunch of tanks but when they arrived > they found they should redesign the tank to have the coolant > attachment like we see in the pictures. > > as a result there was a glut of 'military tanks' which were > now useless to the military and were thus sold on to consumers. > > now the public will have to wait for some other redesign > so we can get the now real military tanks. > > wacko huh ? > > barnaby.

I suspect the real deal goes more like: The military ordered the big tank for its diesel bikes, and IMS, who already made a 5.5 gal. replica KLR tank, saw a civilian market for a design with more capacity. Meanwhile, the Marines found that the 6.6 gallon tank gave the diesel bikes a range of something like 900 miles, more than was really necessary. They found that a smaller tank gave ample range for their purposes. The smaller tanks are the ones that sport the attached coolant reservoirs. This is not for certain; let's just say it could have gone that way.

[Devon]

pdstreeter@... wrote:

> > >I thought someone mentioned that a Supertrapp is re-packable. I have the >type with removeable discs and the end cap that turns down. I don't see >how to get the center out of the muffler from the disc end. Do you pull >the whole muffler off, and pull the center out from the inlet side? >Someone mentioned using a dent puller, what do you hook it onto? > >

You remove the entire muffler, and remove the clamp that fastens the midpipe to the muffler. There is a rivet under the clamp that pins the muffler to the core. Once you do that, you either hammer the core out of the muffler body (50% chance you destroy it), or remove the discs, and punch a small hole in the perforated core to fit the dent puller into (10% chance you destroy it). If you coated the entire core with anti-seize when it was new, it's much easier. If you have any dents in the body between the discs and the end cap, it's MUCH harder. I have a Laser Pro Duro for sale, I won't know how much I'm asking until I see how well it cleans up. Let everyone know how it went getting the thing apart. Devon