After a bunch of reading and a bit of back and forth with Paul, I’ve decided to try his mods on my recently purchased 08 with typical oil burning tendencies.
I bought an 08 with 36k on it back in March. PO said it burned some oil but not horribly so. He’d had it the last 15k. He gave me a lot of extras with it including a new eagle mike 685 kit with piston rings, and gaskets. I’m a mechanic so doing most work to it doesn’t bother me in the least. But buying a new toy and having it down for a month at the beginning of the season with shipping things back and forth isn’t something I wanted to do. So I’ve been riding it and keeping a close eye on it. And in 3k miles so far have a pretty good idea of what it will burn for given riding types.
After talking to Paul a bit I mentioned I hadn’t seen much in the way of post mod feedback. Lots of people had seemed to try it, but never said much after. Or maybe I didn’t search enough. So I’ll try to provide some. My intention is to ride it all summer as i had planned to. And do the 685 upgrade this winter in the off season. It’s obvious to me Paul and Tom already put in a ton of work on this. I won’t be running 9 pressure gauges and sending oil samples in. It’s simple, I’m gonna ride it, keep track of oil consumption vs type of riding done, and enjoy my “new” KLR for the summer. I drilled the 3 banjos the other day, and tapped and plugged the oil cap drilled to #44 for ease. If I have a reason to pull the clutch cover in the future I might do the 100% filtration mod. But for now my clutch is fine, the water pump is good and I have no leaks, so I’m leaving it alone.
I bought an 08 with 36k on it back in March. PO said it burned some oil but not horribly so. He’d had it the last 15k. He gave me a lot of extras with it including a new eagle mike 685 kit with piston rings, and gaskets. I’m a mechanic so doing most work to it doesn’t bother me in the least. But buying a new toy and having it down for a month at the beginning of the season with shipping things back and forth isn’t something I wanted to do. So I’ve been riding it and keeping a close eye on it. And in 3k miles so far have a pretty good idea of what it will burn for given riding types.
After talking to Paul a bit I mentioned I hadn’t seen much in the way of post mod feedback. Lots of people had seemed to try it, but never said much after. Or maybe I didn’t search enough. So I’ll try to provide some. My intention is to ride it all summer as i had planned to. And do the 685 upgrade this winter in the off season. It’s obvious to me Paul and Tom already put in a ton of work on this. I won’t be running 9 pressure gauges and sending oil samples in. It’s simple, I’m gonna ride it, keep track of oil consumption vs type of riding done, and enjoy my “new” KLR for the summer. I drilled the 3 banjos the other day, and tapped and plugged the oil cap drilled to #44 for ease. If I have a reason to pull the clutch cover in the future I might do the 100% filtration mod. But for now my clutch is fine, the water pump is good and I have no leaks, so I’m leaving it alone.