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Tire time for the KLX300. That's about 60 -70 hours of trail use.
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I'm working on putting my V-Strom back together after a fried stator. I present the dumbest gasket packaging I've ever come across  It's sitting on a backing off cardboard but then the top layer is adhesive plastic. It's a careful chore to get the gasket out without damage.
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Jan 8, 2024 22:56
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My VStrom is back together and seems to work fine again. 14.3V at the battery with the engine running. However, I lost the tank pivot bolt  IDK how I managed to lose literally the largest bolt in this entire job. So now the bike has a 1/4" SS shoulder bolt courtesy of the local farm supply store there instead. I'm going to hell.
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Jan 9, 2024 21:55
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I'm hoping it falls out when I get it off the center stand and out of the garage. Too rainy today though
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Jan 9, 2024 22:00
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I work on extremely expensive wafer fab equipment. I assure you, we use a mix of metric and SAE.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 10, 2024 22:06
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That's fine. Less insulation means less air resistance, which is important in electrical circuits if I remember correctly
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Cold and snow this weekend. I think it may be a good opportunity to check the valve clearances on the KLX140 (150 hours? I really don't know), KLX300R (~140 hours), and KX250 (45 hours).
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Jan 12, 2024 20:09
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shacked up with Brenda posted:Unless they start poorly I wouldn't. They start and run great. I just get really nervous ignoring regular maintenance intervals
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Jan 12, 2024 20:45
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TotalLossBrain posted:Cold and snow this weekend. I think it may be a good opportunity to check the valve clearances on the KLX140 (150 hours? I really don't know), KLX300R (~140 hours), and KX250 (45 hours). I got around to this job this weekend. Last weekend was too cold in the garage. The 300R had the intake at ~0.005" and the exhaust at ~0.007", at around 150 hours and two years. The KX has ~45 hours and both intake valves were at 0.005" and both exhaust valves were at 0.007". Both bikes are at the upper limit of allowable tolerance. I'll check again in 15-20 hours.
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Jan 22, 2024 01:11
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It was nice and sunny here but cool. I don't really stop riding in the Portland area unless there's snow/ice.
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Mar 7, 2024 01:07
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2Fast2Nutricious posted:I went to reinstall my battery that I had on a tender and promptly lost the nut holding one of the leads in the bowels of whatever is below the battery cradle. It's next to the 10mm socket
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A new T32 for the VStrom is getting put on/balanced rn. I got almost exactly 9000 miles out of the old one. I thought I could maybe get a few more miles out of it but then I compared it to the new tire and felt very bad. Edit: dang my tire guy must have been bored today, he did both the VStrom wheel and a paddle tire swap on my kids KLX140 wheel in 15 minutes, $77 total. Good deal for him, good deal for me. 2 minutes from my house, open on the weekend, super fast TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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Pulled the wheels off the ER6N, new tires at my local shop today Edit: I wish I could upload a picture to imgur, but the 3rd party upload app is broken, the awful app uploader doesn't work, and imgur app and website both refuse Maybe later TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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I did the brake pads on the VStrom last weekend. Pads had material left but it looked glazed and didn't work all that well. Braking is much better now. I'm getting a new chain and sprocket kit to my door today and it's high time. 30k miles and I'm pretty sure it's the original chain. I'm limited out on adjustment and it's still loose, making noise. Next up after that is fork seals. Not looking forward to loving around with those.
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Uh when are the valve checks due. It's 25k miles right?
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I changed sprockets and chain on the VStrom. The old set was horrible, I now realize. It might even be the OEM set (30k miles). The pins are just wrecked. Each link can move 1-2 mm away from the next link. There was a decent amount of metal dust under the front cover. The front sprocket seems to be missing a lot of meat. And what do you know, the ride quality improvement is loving amazing. Super quiet and smooth now. It had been making loads of noise, surging, very jerky power delivery and engine braking. All better now.  Now I need to figure this bullshit out next. I know the fork seals are leaking, but so are the calipers. 
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Apr 14, 2024 17:15
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shacked up with Brenda posted:I run mine until it looks like a japanese woodcut of a wave. If you run it past that you get built-in traction control. See the one I posted last page for what's too much wear
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Apr 18, 2024 13:26
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In the US, inspection requirements can differ even in the same state. The Portland Metro area requires inspections (mostly for exhaust I think?) but the county I live in just south of there doesn't.
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Apr 18, 2024 14:30
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Phy posted:ZRX1100 
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Apr 19, 2024 20:24
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I just bought a cheap Casio on eBay for that purpose myself!
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More bike maintenance. 6 bikes are cool and all but the maintenance oh God Oil+ filter change on KLX140 and a new spark plug because I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start. It had sat for a couple months but I'm happy to report that I had just forgotten this bike has a fuel valve  Oil+ filter change, clean air filter, new plug, and full chain and sprocket kit for the KX250. Only 55 hours on it but man the dunes sure did a number on it. The chain is loving wrecked. I cleaned and lubed it regularly. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Apr 21, 2024 |
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Another weekend of bike maintenance. Washed all three dirt bikes and cleaned their air filters. I took inventory of all the missing bolts. Seriously, each bike loses at least one bolt per ride. I didn't want to spend $25 again on a small box of bolts from my local dealership. Good bolts but only half of them are useful. So I went to a local store that I assumed had a decent hardware isle. No, gently caress you, the already very small stainless metric section had mostly empty bins. Caved and ordered exactly the bolts I need, in quantity, from Amazon. Should be here today and maybe by then the air filters are dry so I can oil/reinstall them and put all the plastics back on. Also while lubing cables and articulation points, I noticed that the throttle hangs at wide open on the KX250. I thought it was the bent bark busters. Straightened that out in a vice, but throttle still stick at WOT position. I took it apart, lubed both cables, cleaned and dried the throttle tube and put it back together. Seems fine now? Should this be lubed with something? It's just plastic riding on the handlebars
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Ugh my VStrom s headlight is completely dead this morning. This has caused me the greatest grievance of all - having to take my car to work* My 30 seconds of googling show this is a very common issue. I've looked it up before because occasionally I'll have one of the bulbs go dim, but that's resolved by reseating the bulb connector. This time, both sides are out, no high beam, and no high beam indicator light. The blinkers on the same harnesses work fine, tail light works fine. The Internet thinks the issue is related to Suzuki's brilliant idea to route the headlight current directly through the switch rather than a relay. But the switch only controls hi beams? Also the PO left me loads of maintenance records and there was one of those relay upgrades in there to fix this specifically. Guess I'll get to troubleshoot wiring issues with bonus PO fuckery. *it's a nice comfortable ride and I'm thankful to have options available to me
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I traced my VStrom 's dead headlights to a connector with oxidized contacts. I sanded those lightly and cleaned them up. Lights work again. On a whim I decided to do the fork seals while I'm here. It's been spraying fork oil all over the fender and radiator/engine for a few thousand miles now. Fork seals showed up overnight and the one seal driver that I do have is the correct size. Those forks are a lot easier to work on than the WP's from an 01 KTM 250. I got both of them done pretty quickly. The old seals were indeed shot and the old oil looked nasty. Now I just need to put everything together again  
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It is sitting on the center stand, it's just hidden behind the jack stand. That and the pump Jack are only keeping the front from tipping down. I've put about 100 miles on it now and the forks are still clean. I'll call that a success. Now I need to do something about the front right brake caliper that's leaking. I already have the rebuild kit because I suspected as much but wasn't 100% sure what with the fork seals spraying a similar fluid all over the place TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 16:57 on May 6, 2024 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:It is sitting on the center stand, it's just hidden behind the jack stand. That and the pump Jack are only keeping the front from tipping down. Turns out the calipers are not leaking at all. Fork is still clean and dry. I'll consider the issue closed. Next up is an oil change.
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