Well only 7xx miles on my drz sm and yesterday a guy ran a red light turning left infront of me. I was very lucky he only hit the front wheel I flew off breaking his windshield and rolling off the back of his car I only have spranged ankle and lots of bruising. Just wanted to let every one know ride safe and be careful lots of bad drivers out there. Bike is pretty banged up forks might be bent defentaly twisted and scratches all over
so far all my flats have been nails, 2" long or so. My concern is this would puncture the tubliss tube. Any experience with nails? Thx. eternalRider yikes! man that could have been really bad, heal up quick, hopefully his insurance will fix up the DRZ.
simply question guys, Today I changed the oil and filter on my klx400r I put bungs back in changed filter. When I was cleaning up I noticed there was a rubber O ring on the old oil filter, and i cant remember if the new one had one on it!!! was this O ring ment to go back onto the bike ? Im kinda worried...
damn I think I chucked it out, surprised the oil filter doesn't come with one like cars. Thanks for that.
I'm running 14/49. It will tractor up anything with barely any throttle and I got it up to a GPS'd 70 mph and had throttle to spare. If I had anything to complain about, it would be the torque will lift the front tire to the point that your turning ability suffers a bit at low speed. I also went on reserve at 75 miles with that setup... S model, BTW
The number you see is relative to how far off you are as sort of a percentage. If your odo is reading 9 miles when you've actually gone 10, then you'll need to raise the correction factor. In this example, I'd set the value to 112 (multiply 9 by 112%) and see if it tracks more accurately. If the odo is reading high, then I'd correct down from 100 to some lower value, depending on the variance. Might take some testing to get it spot on. If you're using a GPS for reference, be sure and do your testing on a straight road, a GPS will not report accurate mileage on a really curvy road because it calculates distance in straight lines between a series of individual points. If no GPS, just find a road with mileage markers and give it a few runs. Cheers,
The vacuum petcock in my 2002 S failed and fuel got past the float needle and contaminated the oil. Like an idiot I forced the partially hydrolocked cylinder to start and rode it 5 miles home keeping the revs up to prevent stalling and assuming it was some kind of electrical issue. I shut the engine down in the garage and it wouldn't start again. Pressing the starter just resulted in a slow cranking and occasional backfire until I tore the top end down to check it out. Galled intake cam journal holder Damaged intake cam journal Damaged intake cam journal holder in head Minor cylinder scuffing Minor piston skirt scuffing Fuck you buddy All of the journal holders in the head, the journal holder caps, and both cams had light damage. The gear side of the intake cam was the worst by far. I replaced the petcock with the 1999 WR400F manual one both because it is 1/3 the price and because I don't want this to happen again. Just don't ask what happened this weekend, 120 miles from home, when I left the damn thing on overnight. d'oh!
That sucks. I have done similar,but my bad, I left it in prime. Rode it, left it overnight, and tried to start it next morning. Hydrolocked. Pulled the plug, cranked it, put plug back in, and rode on.
Errr just thinking maybe you should replace the float valve in the carb that way when you leave your petcock on, or it fails the gas won't go into the oil. I know it's not something that should be relied on, but if it got through in the first place doesn't that mean it knackered?
Yeah, you're exactly right. I want to try just polishing the valve seat first. It still looks a little grimy. The valve passed the "blow in the fuel supply tube" test after I cleaned the carb and the needle doesn't show any wear, so I thought it was all good. I told my buddy i was making the petcock ritual part of my religion! hahaha Convincing the senile farmer to let me change the oil and blow out the cylinder in his driveway was even easier than I hoped for.
Float Valves are so finicky D: When I had to replace some leaky seals on my xl250r I ended up replacing the float valve and apparently I got some dust or something on the new one 'cause when I had it all back together and turned the gas on, it all just started spilling out the float bowl vent and overflow, so that was fun
As our carbs in general. I loathe the things. I know some like carbs and are mistrustful of the black-box nature of FI, but I won't buy another new motorcycle in my career that is not injected. Carbs are the VCR's of motorcycling. - Mark
Yeah, if someone made an affordable way to convert the DRZ to fuel injection I would be on that in heartbeat.
i used to be that way when EFI started becoming common on cars/trucks....didn't want anything to do with it. "i can fix a carb, i can't fix an ECU except by spending a butt load of money and replacing it." after owning several EFI vehicles, though, i came to realize it doesn't matter...since the ECU never needs fixing. i'd love to have a fuel injected DRZ (with a 6th gear while we're at it).