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OK - full story... My brother (JMQ2) and I went to participate in this ride. JMQ2 sometimes lets his DR650 sit too long, and it needs to have the carb cleaned. So Thursday he had the carb cleaned and bike was running OK. I got to his house Friday and adjusted the fuel screw and it was running well. I was planning to ride my new to me XR400, but I brought my KLR650 just as a backup.
This turned out to be a good/bad thing, as the DR650 would not start and run on Saturday morning. We spent 20 minutes on it and gave up, as we had a spare anyway. So it was JMQ2, not me that was riding the KLR. I was on the XR400.
He was doing well on the KLR, the back end was sliding all over, but he didn't get stuck or fall, so we were doing well............ Then he came up to a large puddle, and he didn't think he could hold a line around the outside, so he went through it. This was a mistake.
The hole was around hip deep, and he hit something in the middle which pitched him over to the right side, placing the airbox intake (and possibly the CDI) in the water.
We pushed the bike out, removed the filter, drained the airbox, removed the plug and got a little water out of the cylinder, checked for spark, and it still wouldn't start.
Went through several iterations of drain carb, remove bowl and look at float, clean spark plug, etc, but never got any response.. After 45 minutes or an hour we gave up and decided to tow/push back to the road. We borrowed a tow strap (THANKS!), and the mighty XR pulled the KLR back through the mud, etc. It took us 30-45 minutes to get back to the dirt road, which included quite a bit of mud and a couple of hills where JMQ2 was walking and pushing while I was pulling with the XR.
During this time, the bottom of JMQ2's riding boot came completely off (and it must have been all at once, because he didn't notice until later when we were washing the bike and decided to wash the boots as well!)
Also, the XR has an Acerbis tank on it, with a fuel line from each side, meeting in the middle and going to the carb. The right side hose was too close to the exhaust and melted, pouring gas onto the header. That was easy though, as we just turned off one petcock and shoved a stick into the hose that used to go to that petcock.
So we went into town and had lunch, washed the bike so it would be easier to work on, and went back to camp. Instead of messing with the KLR any longer, we tore down the DR650 carb to see if we could figure out what was wrong with it. We didn't notice anything in the float, jets, etc - but the O-ring for the vacuum port was missing. We replaced that and it still didn't make much effort to fire. After a couple of hours of messing around, we said screw it and decided that maybe we had run out of luck, and we skipped day 2.
Post mortem DR650 - we got back home and were going to quickly spray a little carb cleaner in the intake of the DR and try to start it, just to validate a fuel problem - took the airbox door off and the airbox was full of fuel! So THAT would have been an easy fix - we probably would've caught it Saturday morning if we hadn't had the KLR as a spare bike.
KLR650 is now blowing the fuse when I try to start, so I will have to do more diagnostics on it - haven't even unloaded it yet as I have been busy with other things..
So all in all, it was a good weekend. ?
This turned out to be a good/bad thing, as the DR650 would not start and run on Saturday morning. We spent 20 minutes on it and gave up, as we had a spare anyway. So it was JMQ2, not me that was riding the KLR. I was on the XR400.
He was doing well on the KLR, the back end was sliding all over, but he didn't get stuck or fall, so we were doing well............ Then he came up to a large puddle, and he didn't think he could hold a line around the outside, so he went through it. This was a mistake.
The hole was around hip deep, and he hit something in the middle which pitched him over to the right side, placing the airbox intake (and possibly the CDI) in the water.
We pushed the bike out, removed the filter, drained the airbox, removed the plug and got a little water out of the cylinder, checked for spark, and it still wouldn't start.
Went through several iterations of drain carb, remove bowl and look at float, clean spark plug, etc, but never got any response.. After 45 minutes or an hour we gave up and decided to tow/push back to the road. We borrowed a tow strap (THANKS!), and the mighty XR pulled the KLR back through the mud, etc. It took us 30-45 minutes to get back to the dirt road, which included quite a bit of mud and a couple of hills where JMQ2 was walking and pushing while I was pulling with the XR.
During this time, the bottom of JMQ2's riding boot came completely off (and it must have been all at once, because he didn't notice until later when we were washing the bike and decided to wash the boots as well!)
Also, the XR has an Acerbis tank on it, with a fuel line from each side, meeting in the middle and going to the carb. The right side hose was too close to the exhaust and melted, pouring gas onto the header. That was easy though, as we just turned off one petcock and shoved a stick into the hose that used to go to that petcock.
So we went into town and had lunch, washed the bike so it would be easier to work on, and went back to camp. Instead of messing with the KLR any longer, we tore down the DR650 carb to see if we could figure out what was wrong with it. We didn't notice anything in the float, jets, etc - but the O-ring for the vacuum port was missing. We replaced that and it still didn't make much effort to fire. After a couple of hours of messing around, we said screw it and decided that maybe we had run out of luck, and we skipped day 2.
Post mortem DR650 - we got back home and were going to quickly spray a little carb cleaner in the intake of the DR and try to start it, just to validate a fuel problem - took the airbox door off and the airbox was full of fuel! So THAT would have been an easy fix - we probably would've caught it Saturday morning if we hadn't had the KLR as a spare bike.
KLR650 is now blowing the fuse when I try to start, so I will have to do more diagnostics on it - haven't even unloaded it yet as I have been busy with other things..
So all in all, it was a good weekend. ?