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Title: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: smoker on May 10, 2007, 10:24:54 AM
So I got the K&N 'Lunchbox', 140 mains, and threw them in my bike this morning with an adjustable wrench and a couple of screwdrivers (anyone seen my metric sockets?....).  Anyway, from the time I pulled her outta the garage to start working til the time I was test riding was about an hour exactly.  So I imagine if you're more organized than I  am and have a decent place to work you could do it in considerably less.  Anyway, bike runs great, sounds much cooler than it did.  I'm running 140 mains, 1 washer (I think, didn't check), 2.5 turns out mix screw.  I love this bike more every time I tinker.  Once I get the 44t. rear sprocket that's on back order, I think I'll have my dream machine (Until I can afford a new SV650 :icon_lol:)
Thanks again to this site for all the help, hope this helps someone else who's thinking about doing the same...cheap, easy power...what more could ya want?....

Ohbytheway, when I took out my old airbox, I found squirrells had filled it about half way with dog food they'd been smuggling out of my house.  So the whole time I had a lunchbox on there already and didn't know it!!!!!
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Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: Wrecent_Wryder on May 10, 2007, 10:45:02 AM
S5
Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: EDub on May 10, 2007, 11:38:26 AM
i took all mine out with a vice grips and replaced them with allen heads
Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: groff22 on May 10, 2007, 11:45:07 AM
Quote from: smoker on May 10, 2007, 10:24:54 AM
Ohbytheway, when I took out my old airbox, I found squirrells had filled it about half way with dog food they'd been smuggling out of my house.  So the whole time I had a lunchbox on there already and didn't know it!!!!!

LOL. classic. I had similar thing where mice smuggled various nuts into my airfilter this past winter... Made such a mess.

Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: Turd Ferguson on May 10, 2007, 11:47:59 AM
Man, everyone has so much trouble with the bowl screws.  All 8 of mine came out with no fuss.

:dunno_white:
Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: Turd Ferguson on May 10, 2007, 11:50:29 AM
Quote from: groff22 on May 10, 2007, 11:45:07 AM
LOL. classic. I had similar thing where mice smuggled various nuts into my airfilter this past winter... Made such a mess.

We had an old beater car in high school auto shop that had been sitting in a field for 2 years.  It STUNK inside there and I knew there was something dead in it.  We tossed in a new battery and as soon as I turned on the vent blower I found where the dead mice were...  Yuk.  Dead mice do a number on plastic blower blades :o

-Turd.
Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: Wrecent_Wryder on May 10, 2007, 11:56:05 AM
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Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: Turd Ferguson on May 10, 2007, 12:00:31 PM
Phillips.
Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: Wrecent_Wryder on May 10, 2007, 12:10:22 PM
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Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: smoker on May 10, 2007, 09:59:56 PM
What are you referring to by "bowl screws"?  You mean to actually take the bowls off to access the jets?  Mine came out easy.  I rejetted when I first bought it, so I'd had them out before, but I'm third owner and everything came apart easy.  ???? :dunno_white:
Maybe I just got lucky...
Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: galahs on May 10, 2007, 10:07:00 PM
5 of mine came out easy, I had to drill the other 3
Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: domas on May 11, 2007, 12:20:09 AM
I stripped almost all screws at the start. Then i took a metal saw and did good grooves in them. And opened with flat screwdriver putting half of my weight on it.
Title: Re: K&N, Re-Jet, Under 1 hr., found suprises!!!!
Post by: ohgood on May 11, 2007, 02:09:32 AM
don't trust those damned squirrels, they're 3v1l i tell ya.