Kartman´s ´98 LC4 Adventure & ´99 660 Rallye Diary Thread

Yea the image quality is very poor. What's up with everything being washed out in white. Camera lens fog or something

The new o ring will work for a while but just order the whole slave before spring. also a good time to rebuild the master as well.... and get a snow kit for that deeper powder..

Great snow shots. Is that gadget KOSO? What's the story on it - just a lambda A/F readout?

Edit: http://www.kedo.com/products/40501.html

Is this the best readout on the market?

Here´s a little update

I installed the lambda sensor, but the adjustment of the carb still has to wait, because the weather is very bad


Furthermore I´ve installed a cold start extension from the 2001 660 Rally, works great !



And today I´ve got a SR-Racing exhaust, which sounds just awesome :eek1:eek1:eek1





The new gasket of the clutch cylinder is working good and not leaking any more.

Here are two pics of my last ride, made 2 or 3 miles in something like 1 1/2 hours

Had a lot of fun again yesterday




The new engine seems to have to much power for the chain
Unfortunenatly this happened in the middle of nowhere, but I called a friend who managed to pick me and the chain up. We drove home and chopped off the broken chain link, went back and installed it again with a new chain lock.


Sorry about the bad image quality again, my D-SLR is just too big
Here´s also another crappy video and photo

http://www.npshare.de/files/cfaecdd7/MOV00027.3gp

http://www.ktm-lc4.net/forum/chat/uploaddir/DSC08323_12655668201345761913.JPG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Nqy7IgBGU

Hey Guys !
I decided to give my bike a complete rebuild.
Furthermore I´m going to mount a 640 High Flow Engine again.
The 660 was running great, but it´s "too hot" because it´s not street legal...

The frame went black matt



I just ordered new orange side plastics, a front fender and fork protektors.
The windshield is going to be painted in black matt, too.

A friend of me made me a bash plate for my rally cockpit - experimental mounted with Touratech Roadbook
On the top I´ll mount a new IMO 100R (you can see it some pages back) and also the control lamps...

What are you doing with the 660

I´m going to change it with a guy who offered me a 2003 640 High Flow engine.

Here´s an update from today.
I just finished to attach the alloy dashboard... sweeeeet

Did some wiring:




And my new plastic parts arrived :eek1



I´ve got some bad news about my new engine.
It´s not gonna be a High-Flow, but a 2002 (black) without hydraulic clutch system

Have you tried finding one of these?



Still a few around bought as spares for the Dakar

What the.... :eek1:eek1:eek1


I would do a lot of things to get such an engine

More pics here: http://www.sundaysocialclub.org/mischosting/motorweb/index.htm

hello there

regarding *Kartman*

i have some interesting stuff about your 660 race engine like tech specs and engine specs and parts directly from ktm.

interested e-mail me at hpod2002@yahoo.ca and i'll share ....however my price is anything you have for my 2007 640 adventure bike.

best of luck to all

I´ve got the engine yesterday.
It´s a 2002 640 out of a Duke II with 9k km on it.
Not a 660 Rally Engine, even not a 660.... but I like it anyhow

Interesting. It looks like its unused but is 9000 km. :huh

I have had both. The hydro is like a switch on/off. You lose some of the feel with it. Plus they are labor intensive especially on KTMs. Not easy to repair on the trail. I had one fail me during a race. Had to ride out 30-40 miles in 1st gear thru the Appalachian mountains in a cold November rain. It turned out that the hydro tube had rubbed thru on the underside of the tank and burst. When I replaced it I took some fuel line and ran it over the outside of the tube. Then shrink wrapped the ends to prevent mud/sand from entering. Never had that problem again. In addition to better feel with the cable. You can prerun a spare ziptied right next to it. And be able to do trail side repair if needed in 15-30 minutes. I have a 01 Black Beauty. Go ahead and replace that c/s bearing. I think thats what got you on the first one.

Nearly 2 years are over now and I even didn´t post the result of my rebuild :eek1
This is what the bike was looking afterwards !











After a few rides, I decided to sell the bike.... till today I really don´t know why I did this...it was just stupid
But today I bought it back !!!! And there it is, the 2 pics are from today, I drove about 800 miles to pick it up... and it´s worth it ^^
The buyer/seller ( ) installed a steering damper and rally taillights. Tommorrow I´m going to check and clean everything and take it for a test ride :)





I also got 2 brand new rally

Sure wish your links worked! I wanna see the updates!