New and improved KTM690 WUNDERFEST

Mine did it too. 2012. I think it was because I was being impatient, and blipping the throttle to quickly while starting. I have been sure to keep my hand off the throttle when starting since, and have not had a repaeat...

I shaved some of the neoprene from the seal saver where it lined up with the ring on the forks. seemed to work pretty well.

With all the talk about it, do you think the reg/rect is overheating? I haven't looked at it but if it's a part that's easily swapped you can borrow mine to see if it fixes the problem.

Uhhh not so much, grenaded my Vstrom motor at 46K miles.

Is at 3/4 temp also where your fan kicks in? If so, check if unplugging the fan sensor has an effect.

After it stalls does it re-start? If not, do you hear the fuel pump prime sequence? If you don't hear it, I would suggest replacing the fuel pump. Your problem sounds similar to problems described in this FI thread. I replaced mine with the CA Cycleworks FP-HUS. Problem fixed. Many other 690 owners have reported good results with this pump and it is much cheaper than the OEM KTM pump.

Unplugging the fan sensor will not allow the fan to come on at all. Its a simple thermo switch, only 2 wires.

Exactly

Mine used to do that too!!.. It stopped doing it after a valve adjustment on my bike... I did also replace the fan swith for the suzuki ltz too over the same winter. What fixed it ?? I'd say the valves but with the new switch my fan kicks on around the 5th bar of heat out of 8 and rarely goes over 6 bars even if stopped for a while.

When my 690 blew the headgasket last spring we had to stop at a random house and fill the radiators with water. The bike was burning water in a low performance water injection kind of way...bike still ran well amazingly. But when the water was running out the temperature gauge was pegged and it will start to flash as well as a warning light comes on. The bike ran fine right to that point but I was into service and shutting it off as fast as possible. I have not torn into the bike since to fix it other than to dump the remaining liquid out.

I just sold my 2010 690 R using the "bikes" section of the Flea Market. My advert resulted in a number of potential buyer leads with the sale eventually going to a fellow senior from Montana. Start to finish the process took 4 days. It truly is a big tent here.

Being 66 I am getting softer and softer preferring to do my desert exploring now in this (a 2013 Jeep Rubicon).

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After a lifetime of riding I think it is safe to say I have owned my last motorcycle.

Since I will not likely be posting here again I want to thank all of the members who provided a myriad of useful information and creative solutions/fixes for the 690. This site is the best and I wish all inmates a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

Cheers,

Tom

Just a heads up...the Rubicon shares the same EFI system as the 690.









just kidding. Enjoy your new toy.

Seth,

I am now going down to the garage to see if the muffler has melted-off my left rear turn signal, then I am going to check to see if the radiator shrouds have pulled out of the radiator causing a leak, then I am going to see if the radiator fan is contacting the radiator eating holes in it, then I am going to see if I have the same fuel pump as the 690, then I am going to check the speedo to see if there is white powder in it indicating impending doom, then I will pull each injector and see if they are spraying, then I will sit on the drivers seat again and see if feels like a two-by-four wrapped in barbwire (if so I will quickly be on the phone to Jim Renazco), then I will sit and worry about what I have missed.

Just for a minute, before scrolling down, you had me going then I remembered that Chrysler makes Jeep and they are now owned by Fiat so I knew the FI unit had to be made by Fueleo Inzionne Especialle Superleggera Bertone Magnetti-Marelli, of Turin.

Cheers,

Tom

Well Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you as well. Have fun with the Jeep!

Nippy, I passed your point 6 years ago, so I know where you're coming from, but I'm keeping mine a bit longer, but not sure how much longer. I enjoyed your contributions to the 690 threads. Best of luck in the future.

I was just looking at this in the OC:



and was wondering if anyone has installed one of these:




Morimoto Mini DS2 HID Projector in one of these:

Nippy,
Was just wondering where all that industrial velcro is on the jeep.....and did you wrap the headers in that mummy frayed tape?

Happy trails......


61 and still have 3 bikes....wanna ride until I really can't....

:eek1





Enjoy your new adventure!!!!!

Last bike 690 R what a way to go out.......long life

I have installed the one of those aftermarket projectors into my stock 950 Light housing.

My concerns with putting it into the 690 light housing would be:

1. The overall depth of the 690 housing. The retrofit projector units don't look too long but, they are longer than you would think. I have my adjuster turned all the way up on my 950 to get the light level correct and the projector housing is less than a mm away from the front plastic. (you could cut out the back of the reflector to allow more room and epoxy mount the projector.)
2. Vibration resistance. I'm not too comfortable with the aftermarket projector install procedure to take it out and beat the crap out of it on a nasty trail. It might be ok on the 950 but, I beat the crap out of my 690 and don't think it will withstand the abuse. (you could use some epoxy and permanently mount it to the housing to solve this though.)