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Old 12-22-2011, 06:55 PM   #1
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Doing a rebuild on a buddy's KLR.

So far, it's going like this...

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Old 12-22-2011, 06:59 PM   #2
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That'll buff out.
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Old 12-22-2011, 07:01 PM   #3
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Extra crispy....

Was it one of those "I don't know what's wrong...it was running just fine" kinda deals?

To which you reply, "Oil, mother fucker!!! You ever heard of it?!"
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Old 12-22-2011, 09:53 PM   #4
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Extra crispy....

Was it one of those "I don't know what's wrong...it was running just fine" kinda deals?

To which you reply, "Oil, mother fucker!!! You ever heard of it?!"
No, it was more of a, "It's making a weird noise" kinda deal.

To which I replied, "Sort of a, whackity whackity whackity whackity kinda noise?

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Old 12-22-2011, 11:01 PM   #5
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What shape is their doohickey in? That thing cause all kind of mesas in klr engines
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Old 12-22-2011, 11:13 PM   #6
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pfft, what's the problem?
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I thought that all KLR pistons looked like that.
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Old 12-22-2011, 11:27 PM   #8
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Is that a hole burned through the top of it, or a carbon deposit?
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:14 AM   #9
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What shape is their doohickey in? That thing cause all kind of mesas in klr engines
That was the first thing I checked. The previous owner did an Eagle Mike job, and the spring tension was good.

I think he sucked some water in through the air box, the sludge in this fucking thing is unreal, (it's only got 20K on it )

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Old 12-23-2011, 12:23 AM   #10
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Is that a hole burned through the top of it, or a carbon deposit?
Just Carbon.

Aside from the fact that it's completely fucked, it seems to have been in pretty good tune.

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