I picked up a DR350 on the way home from Adopt-A-Trail work.
“New” motorcycle!
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Tonight I worked more toward tearing down the KLR powerplant.
So I started out by checking the valve clearances, all were okay. Then I beheaded it.
Well if I’m ever going to fix the KLR I’ll need to find out the extent of the problem.
The KLR is now almost as light as a KTM.
Six months later I cleared a spot in the garage and started poking into it a little:
Just as I thought, complete failure of countershaft bearing. Chain wasn’t too tight (I had actually checked it on the side of the road), I’m pretty anal about it being within Kawasaki spec.
Anyway engine has to come out. That LH case may be trash, I’m not sure if the case damage goes beyond the seal mating surface. If it’s just the seal mating surface I may be able to get away with building up epoxy to rebuild the area that a bearing ball exited from.
A group of NAXJA members and I did maintenance on 2N49 and 2N04 this past weekend. I didn’t take nearly enough photos, here are a few that I did take:
David and Johnny work on brushing the 2N49C spur.
I’ve been meaning to get a group to clean up the Arrastre Shooting Area for months. Irresponsible shooters have left a large amount of target debris on the range but each time we would attempt to clean it up there would be active shooters there (sometimes when it was marked as closed). Finally in September we were able to clean it up. Dave and Yosh from Transharoo joined my father and I on this cleanup. While we weren’t able to get everything we did make a dent in it.
This run also served as test run on the newly repaired M100.
While it’s clearly work it feel good to put hours into the Adopt-A-Trail program.