It’s been quite a while since I last posted. But I have been making some progress on the KLR. I’ve mostly been focusing on dissasembling the new engine in order to do the 685 kit on it. I’m using the Schnitz Racing kit.
I bought this engine stand off of Revzilla in hopes that it would be able to hold the new KLR engine on my workbench and it actually works perfectly:
The rebuild of the KLR continues. Or, perhaps I should say, the teardown of the KLR continues. This post will be focusing on the replacing of various bits and bobs that have broken while I was doing the teardown (mostly due to user error).
First up is the fan switch for the radiator, which as you can see in the picture below, got quite mangled when I was trying to just unplug it from the radiator.
It’s been a while since I last posted but I haven’t been sitting idle! A few months ago I purchased this 2008 Kawasaki KLR with a blown up engine off of craigslist. And when I say blown up, I mean blown up! This was what the previous owner shared with me from his mechanic who looked at it:
When removing the cylinder head he noted that both intake valves are bent from hitting the piston When flywheel mounting hardware was removed the flywheel fell out of position The cylinder head has a lot of metal/debris and is rendered unusable Exhaust camshaft is rendered unusable He noted there are many steel and aluminum chunks of metal in the bottom end Magneto is damaged and not usable So, all that being said I decided to buy a replacement engine instead of trying to rebuild the old one.