Backup Bike

[El Camexican]

White?...

Nope. For the record I suspect I may have the only white one of that year in North America. I can't even find that plastic anymore. Besides, if I made a second white one the first one would only be half as rare.

[onformula1]

OK-

White- check.
Orange- sadly, check.
Black- check,,, Metal Mulisha look a like boys, there everywhere out here.
Blue?
Monster energy?
Silver?
Yellow?
Pink?
Chartreuse?
Red, green, white?
Clear?

HAHAHAHAHA! Sneak peek?...LOL

[El Camexican]

You're extensive list has the color on it, but I can't find a 2000-2002 300 in that color with a Google search. I will tell you that the plan is to have as little orange on it if possible.

[atc007]

Two steps forward one step back…

Dropped the engine in and bolted almost everything up. Had to leave the PV cover off the right side because I managed to lose both the new clips I bought between my mailing address and home and the head just came back from Slavens. Bolted the head on and took a compression reading of 180psi, up from 140 with the old head and the wrong base gasket.

So with the engine sitting in the frame it occurred to me that I should do a leak-down test. That’s when the fun started. It wouldn’t hold 6psi for 6 seconds, so out came the soap spray. Leaking base gasket, so I pulled the engine out and removed the jug for a light coating of case sealer on each side of the .002” thick gasket and again the engine was pressurized.

Still leaking fast, this time from the exhaust gasket, so again case sealer was used. Pressurized it again and it started leaking from the factory welds on the exhaust flange. At least 1/3 of the weld didn’t penetrate between the two parts, so I removed the flange and stuffed the plug into the port and pumped it up again. Still leaking!!! But where???

I ended up soaking the entire engine and couldn’t get a bubble out of it even though it was bleeding off 5psi per minute. Couldn’t hear anything either, so I uncovered the left side crank seal. No leak there so I removed the right side covers to check the other side of the crank, no leak there either, but wait! No more pressure bleeding either!
It held 6psi for 10 minutes, wtf???

I turned the crank slowly and tried to get it to leak, but it didn’t, so I decided to put the covers back on. The whole time the engine is holding pressure, when I went to press the PV rod on I hear a sharp “pssssst” and the gauge dropped to zero. I screwed with it for 20 minutes and could get it to stop leaking with a light touch of a finger, but I couldn’t get bubbles to form. I’ll live with it.

Color scheme is going to be very un-KTM, pics and fire up next week.

That is maddening.. hopefully it will behave once ran in.

[onformula1]

Got it-

ktm jackpiner



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[El Camexican]

Got it-

ktm jackpiner



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What year is that? I'll guess 1990ish? Looks a little like an IT 250. You can scratch orange, blue and white off the list.

Finished polishing the swing arm tonight. Timed it, 7 hours.

[onformula1]

Thats a 1997 KTM 200 Jackpiner 30th anniversary edition 1967-1997 The first KTM's in the USA were light blue and labeled Penton's after the legendary enduro, ISDE, ISDT race and importer John Penton.

http://dirtbikemagazine.com/home-fea...-the-jackpiner

[onformula1]

Are you going green?

KTM Limited Edition model they only 175 of them because the popular enduro size in the old days was 175cc, most were sold in Europe.

[90guy]

Im hoping Pink here. Now that would be a popping KTM!

[onformula1]

Like these?

[90guy]

Well apparently that would be to common for EL. haha so the search continues.

[El Camexican]

I suspect you'll all be disappointed. Regardless, the color goes well with "shiny"

[onformula1]

Looks great, I sure hope you used the soap trick on those hands.

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[El Camexican]

Looks great, I sure hope you used the soap trick on those hands.

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Oh yea! That and a wire brush Once you start getting to grits finer than 600 the particles start getting into your pores. Still not as bad as the silt from a centerless grinder though. That stuff stains your skin.

[onformula1]

^ Do you know of a compound that cuts fairly smooth aluminum, but with casting lines and pits better than a black compound.

Not sandpaper, kind of between?