My 2005 KLR-650 has a vacuum petcock and it started shutting me off on a 50 mile trip one day last summer. I has to stop and work on it on the side of the road twice before I figured out what it was. I then figured out how to temporarily bypass it and went to the Kawasaki dealer in the next town...
When there is a cross over mostly you'll just lose power. Very aggravating but not harmful to the engine unless you used it that way at high speeds for a long time.
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I currently have mine off the bike for overhaul.
I had a lot of crap inside the advance mechanism and the vacuum portion would only move sometimes due to dirt and corrosion.
With all the gaskets and sealed up the way it is I was confused as to where the crap came from.
I finally realized that...
Hi Joe
I have had the wing apart for over a year. The whole rear end is apart. I have the gas tank in a container, the donor rod is in place so I can do electrolysis for the rust. I have the advance mechanism out cause it was locked up. You know the ailments of a 29 year old bike.
I have been on...
I was in an sales organization many years ago and if you performed at a certain level you got to be a member of the "white rhino" club
and you got a beret. I liked the name so well I kept using it. :-)
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After my repair I decided I should have mounted the fairing while it was soft so it could take a new set that matches the fairing mount when It hardens. Sooooo I put one more thick coat of abs cement on it and mounted it up. I think doing that will lessen the chance of future cracks...
When I did my repair I took the fairing to the car wash and cleaned it up real good. The ABS cement is readily available and is a solvent to the ABS in the fairing. I pit on as thick coat then the poly material and 2 or 3 more coats on top of that. The solvent will melt the cracks back together...