Tuck, I certainly wouldn't want to mislead or misrepresent what I did/did not do. I confess that I didn't pull the motor like I said I was going to do a couple of weeks ago. However, I did put about 2 weeks of hard work into it to get it to this point. A good cleaning, air box cleaning, tires, chain and sprockets, seat, set the float.....I was just hoping the bike would be like NEW, but you experienced guys on this site certainly knew better. Who has the saying on the site 'to be old and wise, you had to be young and stupid' Took it out for a ride today. Starts great, idles great. The ride was mostly single track and I really mean single track in our part of the country - rarely out of 1st gear. It ran fabulous. It also ran really good on some of the steeper hills in the mid to top end range and came down to an idle after 2 or 3 surges. But these were very short bursts of WOT. All good so far. Then I am thinking the lean problem is fixed with the float level being raised and the jetting is good. Get back down to the fire roads and open it up with some high speed runs and, guess what, when off the throttle it stays high revving (not crazy high, just "high") and lean for some time. Engine coming out this week....but it was a blast today! Will vacuum test it before it comes apart. The kdx ran awesome, as it is made for the tight single track (my buddy rode it). Everybody I ride with seems afraid of the K5. ted
