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I have a 2005 Honda XR650L, which I just had a new exhaust system, carb.
kit, and K&N air filter installed. It ran fine when I got it back from the
mechanic. Now we got a cool spell and I noticed that the bike, after riding
for a while, dies whenever it stops to idle. I adjusted the idle and it went
back to doing the same thing after riding. I took it back to the mechanic
and he told me that this might happen with tempreture change and we adjusted
it and it was fine; for a little while. It has done this repeatedly and I am
wondering if the added vibration (from the work I had done) is causing the
idle screw to vibrate, thus moving it back a bit and making me have to adust
the idle again and again. I may be wrong in my diagnosis and the mechanic
won't be in for a couple of days, so I am wondering if there is a way to
tighten the screw up a bit. Or maybe this is not the cause at all. It does
idle fine after adjusting it but I am tiring of adjusting the damn thing
everytime I ride it. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.

TJ wrote:
> I have a 2005 Honda XR650L, which I just had a new exhaust system, carb.
> kit, and K&N air filter installed. It ran fine when I got it back from the
> mechanic. Now we got a cool spell and I noticed that the bike, after riding
> for a while, dies whenever it stops to idle. I adjusted the idle and it went
> back to doing the same thing after riding. I took it back to the mechanic
> and he told me that this might happen with tempreture change and we adjusted
> it and it was fine; for a little while. It has done this repeatedly and I am
> wondering if the added vibration (from the work I had done) is causing the
> idle screw to vibrate, thus moving it back a bit and making me have to adust
> the idle again and again. I may be wrong in my diagnosis and the mechanic
> won't be in for a couple of days, so I am wondering if there is a way to
> tighten the screw up a bit.

Loctite has worked well for me in similar situations. Worth a try, I'd say.

Larry Van Wormer

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"Larry Van Wormer" <lvw@bmts.com> wrote in message
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> TJ wrote:
>> I have a 2005 Honda XR650L, which I just had a new exhaust system, carb.
>> kit, and K&N air filter installed. It ran fine when I got it back from
>> the mechanic. Now we got a cool spell and I noticed that the bike, after
>> riding for a while, dies whenever it stops to idle. I adjusted the idle
>> and it went back to doing the same thing after riding. I took it back to
>> the mechanic and he told me that this might happen with tempreture change
>> and we adjusted it and it was fine; for a little while. It has done this
>> repeatedly and I am wondering if the added vibration (from the work I had
>> done) is causing the idle screw to vibrate, thus moving it back a bit and
>> making me have to adust the idle again and again. I may be wrong in my
>> diagnosis and the mechanic won't be in for a couple of days, so I am
>> wondering if there is a way to tighten the screw up a bit.
>
> Loctite has worked well for me in similar situations. Worth a try, I'd
> say.
>
> Larry Van Wormer
>
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Thanks, I hadn't really thought of that. I don't know how that would work
should I want to re-adjust the idle in the future however.

TJ wrote:

>>
>>Loctite has worked well for me in similar situations. Worth a try, I'd
>>say.
>>
>>Larry Van Wormer
>>
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> Thanks, I hadn't really thought of that. I don't know how that would work
> should I want to re-adjust the idle in the future however.
>
>
Works just fine, slightly more effort needed, that's all. Typically,
don't need to reapply after a screw adjustment. (Of course, don't use
the heaviest-duty loctite, just the usual type used for screws and
bolts. It's readily removable.)

Larry Van Wormer

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If you're running the dyno-jet kit, expect it to never be quite right.
Hot ticket is remove the snorkel, run 55/158 jets (maybe a touch richer
depending on the pipe), shim the stock needle up by 0.030 and drill the
vacuum holes in the slide to 5/32.

-DDave

"XR650L_Dave" <spamTHISbrp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> If you're running the dyno-jet kit, expect it to never be quite right.
> Hot ticket is remove the snorkel, run 55/158 jets (maybe a touch richer
> depending on the pipe), shim the stock needle up by 0.030 and drill the
> vacuum holes in the slide to 5/32.
>
> -DDave
>

Thanks. I'm no mechanic but the one that put it in is fairly good, so I'll
pass this information on to him.