Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Exhaust port sealing
bigtwin100:
Here's an old timer tip for sealing up that pesky exhaust port if your new orings don't do the trick. Wrap Teflon tape around the header pipe over the orings. Couple wraps should do it. You guy's probably know this but I've been doing this for years and it works excellent.
Polar-Bus:
--- Quote from: bigtwin100 on May 16, 2011, 03:12:49 AM ---Here's an old timer tip for sealing up that pesky exhaust port if your new orings don't do the trick. Wrap Teflon tape around the header pipe over the orings. Couple wraps should do it. You guy's probably know this but I've been doing this for years and it works excellent.
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If your jetted spot on, and run 40:1 premix you should'nt have any leaking to begin with :wink:
bigtwin100:
--- Quote from: Polar-Bus on May 16, 2011, 04:08:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: bigtwin100 on May 16, 2011, 03:12:49 AM ---Here's an old timer tip for sealing up that pesky exhaust port if your new orings don't do the trick. Wrap Teflon tape around the header pipe over the orings. Couple wraps should do it. You guy's probably know this but I've been doing this for years and it works excellent.
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If your jetted spot on, and run 40:1 premix you should'nt have any leaking to begin with :wink:
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Well maybe that's why it works for me :wink:
Polar-Bus:
--- Quote from: bigtwin100 on May 16, 2011, 04:22:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: Polar-Bus on May 16, 2011, 04:08:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: bigtwin100 on May 16, 2011, 03:12:49 AM ---Here's an old timer tip for sealing up that pesky exhaust port if your new orings don't do the trick. Wrap Teflon tape around the header pipe over the orings. Couple wraps should do it. You guy's probably know this but I've been doing this for years and it works excellent.
--- End quote ---
If your jetted spot on, and run 40:1 premix you should'nt have any leaking to begin with :wink:
--- End quote ---
Well maybe that's why it works for me :wink:
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all ball breaking aside, if you are experiencing excessive "spooge" blowing past the o rings you can probably lean your jetting a bit more and try a little less premix ratio. I do have a small amount of leakage, but nowhere near when i tried running stock jetting and 32:1 ...
bigtwin100:
Thanks for the tip. I don't have alot of spooge but sometimes that port is worn and new orings don't seal and I hate globbing RTV on anything. I run 44:1 and probably going to go to 50:1
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