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[fritzcoinc]

I have heard the XRL needs a special chain lube or it will explode.
What kind of chain lube should I use?

[beechum1]

Hopefully everyones's watching the dakar threads. Only a few USA's left on the list. Day 2 was brutal.

and one of them is the maker of those mirrors up there.

[techforlife]

Originally Posted by fritzcoinc

I have heard the XRL needs a special chain lube or it will explode.
What kind of chain lube should I use?

Baby seal oil.......you know we club those buggers up here right????

B

[zulusafari]

Brake Caliper Guard arrived! I confirmed this is for the XR600R... maybe the 650. sorry I forgot already. but it fits. I tried it on their XRL in the store. The one with 'Bold New Graphics' :)



Wish I had time to paint this before I go. I'm sure it needs to be heat treated well before being installed, yeah?

[Streaks]

OK here's the rundown, 95 L, 9800 miles. Bike has White Bros E series muffler with 10 discs, foam filter, 120' +/- elevation. I did Daves mod with 55-160 jets. I rode it for a couple of miles and ran perfect. Trailered it up to the Mendocino NF for a camping trip ran ok when hot but hard to start and stalled a lot until warmed up. Got home tried to ride it and it was bad, backfiring like crazy, stalling-hard starting. Took the carb apart, clean as the White House bathrooms, plenty of fuel, no clogged tank filter. Re jetted the carb with 58-158 jets, same deal if not worse, Starts right up when cold with choke, 5 seconds later, stall, cant keep it running, gunshot backfire, wont start. I killed the battery trying to get it going. One thing I noticed was the 58 jet was quite a bit shorter than the 55 I took out, it doesn't fit flush anymore. No obvious vacuum leaks but there is a small crack in the insulator, but I doubt its that. I haven't checked the cdi, I cant spring for a new one right now and I don't know anyone that rides a motorcycle near me let alone find one to borrow. The other thing I haven't checked is the valves, the P.O. supposedly had them done recently, would a 120 mile trailer ride throw the valves out? I doubt it. So my question is, WTF? I've had two Ls and a 600R before this one and never had these issues. Im sure you guys are tired of reading posts asking whats wrong but any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry for the long winded post

[katbeanz]

Originally Posted by agspecialties

I like your ram mount mirrors. What are those ???

Our buddy Trl Rdr has those on his 650R, kinda spendy but cool!

Originally Posted by Wattner

CW, Can you "blab" for all of us to know???

In my case, he's playing "how to keep a moron in suspense?", it's working!

[cyclewizard]

Originally Posted by katbeanz

Our buddy Trl Rdr has those on his 650R, kinda spendy but cool!



In my case, he's playing "how to keep a moron in suspense?", it's working!

...........you fookin guys crack me up..

[beechum1]

Originally Posted by cyclewizard

Here's some pics of my billet Race intakes I'm manufacturing for the big block 780cc flat track crowd.
Soon I'll have the billet intakes for the XRL guys with a bend in them. This intake is for the 48mm carbs we run on the dirt trackers..
I have to complete the inside of the intake for the big ported heads I do, I lft a bunch of extra material in there so I can port match it to the head, Once I do that I'll load that in my mastercam file
And then just hit the buttons and press go....

What happens when the length of the intake is changed?

[mondexbrute]

I just put a set of the doubletake mirrors on mine & so far so good! I like that you can fold em away for woods riding.

[XR650L_Dave]

Originally Posted by Streaks

OK here's the rundown, 95 L, 9800 miles. Bike has White Bros E series muffler with 10 discs, foam filter, 120' +/- elevation. I did Daves mod with 55-160 jets. I rode it for a couple of miles and ran perfect. Trailered it up to the Mendocino NF for a camping trip ran ok when hot but hard to start and stalled a lot until warmed up. Got home tried to ride it and it was bad, backfiring like crazy, stalling-hard starting. Took the carb apart, clean as the White House bathrooms, plenty of fuel, no clogged tank filter. Re jetted the carb with 58-158 jets, same deal if not worse, Starts right up when cold with choke, 5 seconds later, stall, cant keep it running, gunshot backfire, wont start. I killed the battery trying to get it going. One thing I noticed was the 58 jet was quite a bit shorter than the 55 I took out, it doesn't fit flush anymore. No obvious vacuum leaks but there is a small crack in the insulator, but I doubt its that. I haven't checked the cdi, I cant spring for a new one right now and I don't know anyone that rides a motorcycle near me let alone find one to borrow. The other thing I haven't checked is the valves, the P.O. supposedly had them done recently, would a 120 mile trailer ride throw the valves out? I doubt it. So my question is, WTF? I've had two Ls and a 600R before this one and never had these issues. Im sure you guys are tired of reading posts asking whats wrong but any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry for the long winded post

Could be fuel, or spark, or less likely the safeties. Less likely to be the valves if when it idles it sounds good.

Maybe try putting a smear of silicone over the crack in the intake adapter.

Maybe it gets fuel, but at a very slow rate?
Get it started, run it until it dies, then quickly shut off the petcock, then drain the carb and see how much comes out- should be the same as if you let it sit for a few minutes with the gas on, then turned the gas off, then drained the carb.

If it is the CDI (not really acting like it though) often beating the CDI a bit will make it work.

You can temp bypass the safeties by grounding both wires that go to the clutch lever switch on the bars.

Dave

[beechum1]

Originally Posted by Streaks

OK here's the rundown, 95 L, 9800 miles. Bike has White Bros E series muffler with 10 discs, foam filter, 120' +/- elevation. I did Daves mod with 55-160 jets. I rode it for a couple of miles and ran perfect. Trailered it up to the Mendocino NF for a camping trip ran ok when hot but hard to start and stalled a lot until warmed up. Got home tried to ride it and it was bad, backfiring like crazy, stalling-hard starting. Took the carb apart, clean as the White House bathrooms, plenty of fuel, no clogged tank filter. Re jetted the carb with 58-158 jets, same deal if not worse, Starts right up when cold with choke, 5 seconds later, stall, cant keep it running, gunshot backfire, wont start. I killed the battery trying to get it going. One thing I noticed was the 58 jet was quite a bit shorter than the 55 I took out, it doesn't fit flush anymore. No obvious vacuum leaks but there is a small crack in the insulator, but I doubt its that. I haven't checked the cdi, I cant spring for a new one right now and I don't know anyone that rides a motorcycle near me let alone find one to borrow. The other thing I haven't checked is the valves, the P.O. supposedly had them done recently, would a 120 mile trailer ride throw the valves out? I doubt it. So my question is, WTF? I've had two Ls and a 600R before this one and never had these issues. Im sure you guys are tired of reading posts asking whats wrong but any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry for the long winded post

when you mentioned backfiring, then; runs then doesn't a few seconds later. If that symptom remains consistent, my go is the floats sticking closed. I know you say clean as the popes soap, i'm just saying what comes to mind. There's also a device that you can put inline with the sparkplug to verify spark. Maybe find that, see if the spark goes away. Then it's coil, pickup or CDI most likely. Less likely is the harness or a short or broken wire. if not, Then it's air or fuel. not likely air, so fuel, so carb.

[prince_ruben]

Hey guys I have a backfiring condition I'm trying to resolve. I have Dave's Mods in a stock carb. It only backfires on decel, nomatter the exhaust (FMF or stock). Where should I be making adjustments?

[beechum1]

Originally Posted by prince_ruben

Hey guys I have a backfiring condition I'm trying to resolve. I have Dave's Mods in a stock carb. It only backfires on decel, nomatter the exhaust (FMF or stock). Where should I be making adjustments?

check the hose on the right side of hte carb. if it comes loose, it'll do that.

[prince_ruben]

Originally Posted by beechum1

check the hose on the right side of hte carb. if it comes loose, it'll do that.

Cool. Will do so when I get home. Thanks.

[beechum1]

Originally Posted by prince_ruben

Cool. Will do so when I get home. Thanks.

It's part of the decel circuit. I don't know enough to explian it, but i'd like to. I guess it keeps a little fuel coming in to keep it from.... popping due to a lean condition.

SOund right experts?