[Rod WalkerMember]

Happy Birthday TB. Have a good one.

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Yep, radiator is fine. It was a pathetic walking pace splat. The shroud only cracked because it is 16 years old and bit brittle.

Dirty!!!! Bugger. But I just spent all week cleaning it up

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Can you believe it??? First ride and I bin it

Went for a blat up the back, was idling along at walking pace and didn’t see a small log in the grass and dropped it. Scratched the paintwork and put a split in the radiator shroud.

How embarrasing.

This is why I can’t have nice stuff

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Last grasstrack I actually raced at (back in the mid ’90’s) was at Oberon.
It was freezing. Snow, sleet, driving wind. God it was miserable.

I remember huddling around my XR’s engine trying to keep warm between races

Hmmm, we have a spare paddock up the back. I wonder if I would be allowed to put a track in it

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Oh Schwing!!!

Ummm, and how would one obtain an invite to come over for a ride?

Just how far away from our place are you? Those look like the same huge power lines that run through my top paddock.

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menace wrote:

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full mad max machine :laugh: :laugh:

ready for our resident jouster/gimp/loony :laugh: :laugh:

needs flame throwers

Funny you should say that.

This is going on the front of it.

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Well, here is the KTM after playing with it for a week.

This has been a very quick tidy up to get it serviced and ready to ride. I shot the frame with the engine still in. Polished up the alloy bits and painted the original orange plastics. Pulled the exhause sytem off and painted it with heat paint and polished the alloy muffler. Black rims still to come and some more tidy up work on the brakes, sprockets etc.

This is how I got it:

And this is how it sits at the moment:

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Thanks guys. Now I need to mark a track out in my top paddock to blat it around. Can’t see me getting it registered anytime soon, if at all, so paddock riding for me.

Anyone close by that likes grass-tracking

Cheers
Rod

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Oh sweet Jeebus, I think I actually fixed it!!!!!

Finally got the filter in (little toilet roll looking thing that cost $49 from KTM!!!!!)

Got it all back together, oil in, coolant in etc etc and took it for a ride. Goes like stink,,,, Thank God.

Spare plastics to be cleaned and painted black. Still waiting on the new rims to arrive, haven’t even heard if they have been sent yet :angry:

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Oh Dear God what a saga. Chased all over the place yesterday for a new air-filter and oil filters. Only place that had the air filter in stock was BikeStop. Today I realised I had the wrong oil filter. Turns out there are two different types and mine is the one that is hard to get. Once again BikeStop to the rescue.

So haven’t had a chance to have a run on it as it is sitting in pieces waiting on the new filter to come in. Decided to start taking bits off whilst waiting and clean them up. Damn these bikes have a lot of alloy bits. Rather than just use a piece of steel for a bracket KTM has used alloy,,,, with KTM stamped into it Makes it easy for a clean up, polish alloy, replace.

The engine sump plug was beat to hell and I had a hell of a time getting it out, so need another one of those as well.

Hanging on the rims coming in as well so I can get them up to TB to be laced up. Brake pads to be replaced and might as well pull the linkages and swingarm and check the bearings while I’m at it.

Arghhhhh I just want to ride it.

Also spotted one of these at Beard Bros. today. For some reason I really like this helmet.

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Hehe, I had a drool over the Sherco as well.

I think I may have got it. There was a lot of crap in the carby and in the tank. Gave them both a good clean out and pulled the petcock apart and cleaned it as well as it was full of crap.

Brand new fuel in and some carby cleaner additive just to make sure. Got her started and did a quick run up and down the driveway. Seems ok. Need to get a new air filter on Monday though as the old one fell apart.

Oil change and coolant change tomorrow.

Might also start pulling bolts and bits off and cleaning/polishing/painting and put them back on.

The PO has really opened up the airbox at some stage. All the road going gear has been pulled off it as well. Must have raced it.

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Thanks guys. I had to drop a bike off up the mountains that I sold so swung into the Lithgow BikeStop on my way home to pick up some Enduro grips that they have. They are they only bikeshop I have been to that keeps them in stock. Love these grips, I put them on all my bikes, road bike included.
Anyway, had a good chat with the guy there, can’t remember his name but I used to go there 15 years ago when I had a go at racing and he was there then. Nice guy and has always been great to deal with.
He said the same thing you guys have said, dirty fuel, sitting too long etc. So I am just starting by dropping the drain plug off the bottom of the carb and cleaning up inside the float, draining the tank and cleaning it out and putting a crab cleaner additive through it to start. New plug to go in as well and clean the air-filter and change the oil. Do all the basics before I actually pull the carby off..

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That will be tomorrows job then. Clean out the tank and carby. God I hate doing carbies. Always terrified I’m going to stuff them up and never get the bike going again.

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That’s what I thought. When I pulled the plug it was pretty black so I thought it may have been too rich.

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Don’t know if this wil help but now that I finally got mine running I am not using the choke at all when it is cold. What seems to work for mine is to hold the throttle wide open, decomp in, and kick it through 9-10 times. Then throttle closed, find TDC, go past it a touch with the decomp, kickstarter back up and jump on it. Starts first or second kick. When it is warm it is starting first kick by just jumping on it.

Weird bits of gear the 630’s

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