KLR650 Doohickey: Everything You Need to Know (incl. 2022 model) (w/ Eagle Mike!)

money issue. It would cost a good amount of money to restructure and fix this problem and they have very few warranty claims, the average KLR really doesn't. The average klr guy doesn't put that many miles on his bike, we still find people buying 03 and 05 bikes with 3500 miles on them today and this is September 2021. So you

know

, they have almost none. warranty claims on this and it just doesn't make sense but if you are going to use your klr a lot you want to fix this and there is one and you can edit it if you want at some point you can see that.

This is where the sprocket is and the splines are here at this end so all the chain pressure is pulling this way but the real adjustment is here so we'll try to do this a little bit and if Kawasaki had made If this piece would fit on the axle, you

know

, it would only fit on the outside of the axle by a couple thousandths or a thousandths, we wouldn't have that spline wear and wobble, you know, and there have been some of these that are soft and such. maybe the The axles are soft and if people don't do it again, and if you look here, you can see this, uh, the rubber is gone, it's here, so this one would end up being very noisy and wobbly, so it's a question accounting. that they're not, they're not getting enough warranty claims or enough cost on their part or liability to ensure they fix it, you know they're doing something about it, so it's just a matter of balancing your money, that's the reason why they haven't done it. done anything about it, that's what I think because they told reporters at the press launch last week that that was the reason they just didn't have enough warranty invoices to justify doing it, so they're basically saying it's an accounting question, right?

Well, for them, all the guys with a lot of miles on there, more or less, I mean, I've heard of a guy who had an early generation 1 and didn't tune his and got a lot of miles on it. I don't know how many, but what man has more miles on his bike than everyone I know? Yes, he still has the original balancer chain and cam chain, weights, rings and piston, and he has over 185,000 miles on it, and that's miles, not kilometers. People looking in other countries, yeah that's pretty crazy, so in your opinion a KLR engine would last that long without preventive fixes and stuff like the

doohickey

and stuff like that, I don't think so.

I think there are two things he did to you. He did regular maintenance, did the trick from the beginning with a torsion spring and designed and built the thermal bob and that keeps his cylinder round in the thermal lab. We're going to have to talk about another video, but that only helps. the temperature regulates better, which is still a problem with the gen 3, so you will still want to install the thermobob on the gen 3. Okay, thanks Mike for explaining the

doohickey

problem. Is there anything else you want to talk about? On the subject, I think that's all for the doohickey that I can remember now.

Thanks Mike for giving us the time to facilitate the installation of the outer casing. I'm going to give this half a loose half turn, that's it and you. You can see that the spring pulls on that just a little bit and you can also see that that thing has about 120 degrees or so, maybe a little bit more, a little bit less rotation and that gives this thing a lot more travel than that thing. factory toggle with the factory screen, yeah sure, now this is captured on