I will, for sure. I need to rotate my attention to house and property, but next time round, I need to teach myself the next phases of regular upkeep. then will be hopefully another item (IMS tank?), check valves and an upgrade like MCM....

 

I have another observation/question regarding starting. My bike starts super fast and easy from cold, comes off choke in seconds, even when cold out. But when warm(the motor, not the weather, as in "warmed up"), it doesn't want to start hardly at all.....takes a LOT of time cranking over.
Now, I have been reading about drilling the starter jet, but I wasn't sure if that fix fits my needs/symptom description...
Another thought I had was perhaps the PO did the MCM but didn't disable the compassion release?
At any rate, I thought I would post up, as well as keep reading old threads. Thanks!!

ETA, I haven't yet checked my valves since buying the bike. It runs fine when warm, just is hard to start so I doubt that valves are the issue, but....

 

Yep that is not right at all.. I can't ever remember seeing that issue - except, as you know, with the MCM that lacks KACR deactivation.. You're gonna have to pull the cam cover to check it out - if the spring is still on the KACR, pull it off to see if hot starting is "fixed" - if so, then you likely have the MCM !

 

Go ahead take another cheap shot at something that someone, with a mechanical engineering degree, has found to be functional and absolutely safe since there is no actual stress on that piece of mild steel rod. Even if there was stress it would be tension, not compression and the material is strong enough to take it.

You really have a hard on about that, don't you. What in the heck makes you think a solid wire is any less durable than some flimsy spring or those mild steel rivets holding the shoes? Is it that you don't have any clue about statics and stress of materials or that it just wasn't your idea and it hurts your ego?

By the way, if you actually thought about it, which you didn't when taking the cheap shot, if the wire actually came off wouldn't the KACR act exactly the same as having the spring off? I guess not. Takes some thought process... mechanical thought process.

As I remember, Marcelino found that leaving the KACR in at stock setting did exactly what is mentioned. Start easy when cold, but extremely difficult/near impossible when hot. The reason they did the research and re-positioned the unit.

Seems everyone who has some differing knowledge or opinion is wrong if it does not fit in your world. At least I give credit to your knowledge.

 

AND,,,, still not taking the bait.. But did remove reference to a wire.. Call it an olive branch..

 

Well.....I have an updated and refined description of the symptom that I am experiencing...after riding a bit here and there, I realize that I mis-understood my problem. Rather than being hard to start when warm, or hot, as I explained above, I have since realized it is NOT heat related. It is merely the fact that it has been running. I can only describe it as being flooded. Regardless if hot, or just start and immediately shut off. It will not start again without 5 or 6 cycles of the starter, and very uniform and repeatable in terms of how many tries to get it to start... As I mentioned above, I have no problems at all starting the bike from an un-used, or "cold" state. It jumps to life and comes off choke immediately.
Now, as you all kind readers may have gathered, I have very little experience with carburetors...I will be doing research, but I immediately think of the float being stuck open, or something of the sort. I defiantly had it open a few times in that jetting session, so I could have a problem there. However, if my description sets a light off in any ones head and you have a really good idea for me, I'm all ears.
To quote subseageorge "Your thoughts as always are the most valuable asset i have regarding information on my KLX. "
Thanks in advance!