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Bachelor Dog
Just to let you know:
Keep a close eye on your KLR's clutch and throttle cables.
Whilst my old KL650C's clutch cables used to give years of indefatigable service and eventually gave up because the sleeve developed a kink or corroded to pieces in the U - bend section around the water pump the story looks different on my KL650A's (2004 and 2005).
The 2005's clutch cable snapped some ten centimetres from the lower end without previous warnings. Some 45000 kms on the clock. No signs of corrosions or problems with the sleeve.
Lesson learned: Don't trust your aquired judgement that you will realise a problem looooong time before your clutch cable will snap. Take a spare.
A few days later I had to change a bent handlebar on the 2004 and found the closing throttle cable to have snapped.
Comparing an older (supposedly identical KL650C) spare cable I had in stock with the snapped one revealed that the older one uses a cable made from finer wires = higher quality.
Next thing I check the closing cable on the 2005 to find it also snapped.
Both cables broke very close to the handlebar end where they run through the PA block inside the throttle unit.
The nasty thing is that you don't easily realize that the closing cable has snapped as everthing still works as usual.
Only when the second cable snaps and you think: "Oh, I just ride home on the other one" you're in for a rude awakening.
Cure: Before you go on a trip, check if you can pull the closing cable has snapped by trying to pull it out of its sleeve. It's the one located fwd on the throttle control and also fwd on the butterfly valve actuator.
Keep a close eye on your KLR's clutch and throttle cables.
Whilst my old KL650C's clutch cables used to give years of indefatigable service and eventually gave up because the sleeve developed a kink or corroded to pieces in the U - bend section around the water pump the story looks different on my KL650A's (2004 and 2005).
The 2005's clutch cable snapped some ten centimetres from the lower end without previous warnings. Some 45000 kms on the clock. No signs of corrosions or problems with the sleeve.
Lesson learned: Don't trust your aquired judgement that you will realise a problem looooong time before your clutch cable will snap. Take a spare.
A few days later I had to change a bent handlebar on the 2004 and found the closing throttle cable to have snapped.
Comparing an older (supposedly identical KL650C) spare cable I had in stock with the snapped one revealed that the older one uses a cable made from finer wires = higher quality.
Next thing I check the closing cable on the 2005 to find it also snapped.
Both cables broke very close to the handlebar end where they run through the PA block inside the throttle unit.
The nasty thing is that you don't easily realize that the closing cable has snapped as everthing still works as usual.
Only when the second cable snaps and you think: "Oh, I just ride home on the other one" you're in for a rude awakening.
Cure: Before you go on a trip, check if you can pull the closing cable has snapped by trying to pull it out of its sleeve. It's the one located fwd on the throttle control and also fwd on the butterfly valve actuator.
