Posting pics: instructions for morons from a moron

[eracer]

Click on gallery
Pick a gallery that is relevant - motard or non motard, stunts etc (DONT select racing as you cant add piccies here).

Looking in the top right hand third of the screen and there is a little menu thingy that is a white box with an arrow next to it that says "admin options"
Click on that and it drops down and says "add photo"
Click that
Then in the box that comes up is says select number of down loads
Click the drop down box and choose the number 1
Then go to the longer box (step 2) that has browse written next to it
Click that
Find your photo off your computer
Click on it
Then click open.
Then you will see a bunch of text appear in that long box. that is your liink ;) doing great
Then click upload photo

Let it do its thing. Be patient.

Once it is done you have to dismiss the box


Once the photo appears in the gallery you have to right click on it and a little box comes up giving you some choices about the photo. Go down and select PROPERTIES. Once that box opents go and copy the long bit of funky text down the bottom that is your url.

Now, open up a message box (like the one I am typing in)
Click the IMG thing twice and this will appear........

Now just get your cursor in between these two sets of brackets and click paste. Your long funky bit of complicated text will neatly sit in between and look very boring.

UNTIL you sub mit your message and low and behold your photo appears

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Your welcome fellas...........anytime

Jealous Neil??

[77]

I tried that last night and the web page froze - not responding and all I got to was

Click on that and it drops down and says "add photo"

[kroosn]

Hey I just tried it and it worked for me

http://vsmr.net/albums/ktm/Painting2_021.sized.jpg

Thanks ;)

[Flash]

Nice bike. Do they ever update them mechanically?

[kroosn]

you dont fix what aint broke. nah the engines almost the same since it first came out in 96. but you dont get many motard engines that can knock out around 70,000k's without a major rebuild though. the lc4 won the dakar 4 years in a row, it was just in an uglier bike.


Kroosn

[cornerspeed]

70,000 FARK me. Thats awesome. Better than any stink'n husky

[kroosn]

yeah was talking to a guy on http://www.advrider.com/ about it he had a 640 adventure with a lc4 and had done 90,000k's only replaced one oil pump and the gearbox output bearing. my bike may cop a little more punsihment though.

[dicky]

They do update stuff occassionally. The '03 and later models have the hi-flow head, larger valves. It's the grey block, the older ones are black.

dicky

[Flash]

70,000 FARK me. Thats awesome. Better than any stink'n husky

There is a few Huskys going around with well over 50000km's. (The new 610's) THey still have a way to go to be able to say there are that reliable.

The LC4's only come with a cv carb don't they?

[Wobbly]

Nope, the 625SMC comes with a FCR41 :up: Even though it's a "625SMC" it's still an LC4 :)

And nice work mitch 8)

[Flash]

Nope, the 625SMC comes with a FCR41 :up: Even though it's a "625SMC" it's still an LC4 :)

And nice work mitch 8)

And you said there wasn't any of those left didn't you?

[Wobbly]

I know where there is one for a good price ... at least it still may be there ;)

[eracer]

Nice bike. Do they ever update them mechanically?

Bitch :poke:

Oh.....and thanks Neil

[Flash]

Well :shrug:

[Wobbly]

...is a place where you get water from? :shrug:

[SMC690]

What a bitchin carb it is too. :)
There are still SMC's left in dealers about the place.
600Km's now and I'm itching to give the thing a decent flogging.
I have no idea where redline is yet, friggin thing is so loud it sounds like a 747 at 4500rpm and beyond....

[77]

You aren't babying it are you? I was under the impression that breaking a new engine in you have to give it to it a bit once well and truly hot/warm?

[Wobbly]

My only guideline for running in a new bike is to try and avoid the limiter when possible, but otherwise get into it once nice and warm :)

[Flash]

Let the rings seat for about 20 mins then rev it a little out now and then and gradually do that more and more for about 200-300km's then she's done!

[Wobbly]

Main thing to remember is to change oil regularly early on and to clean screens :up:

[77]

Neil do you ever find on your DRZ that when you check the oil the next day before starting that the dipstick shows full? I ask because I was under the impression that all the oil should drain into the engine overnight and therefore the dipstick would not indicate any oil at all? I wonder if the dealer did not remove the screen and clean and possible it is full of shit and stoping oil from draining into engine. Or am I the one full of shit?

Sorry I know it is a little off topic. :lol2:

[Wobbly]

No, generally oil shouldn't just drain straight into the bottom end, it really depends on whether there is a decent seal and that comes down to where the impellor in the oil pump ends up when you turn it off I guess. The oil screen is pretty big, so there would have to be so much crap to block it that your motor would be half destroyed already :lol2:

If you want to check it its dead simple - just drain the oil like a normal oil change, take off the line that runs out of the bottom of the frame downtube and then undo the big ass fitting that it came off - the screen is inbuilt to that when you pull it out.

But seriously, the oil screen should only need to be looked at the first couple of oil changes after a rebuild. After that it's not going to get anything of appreciable size. The magnetic plug on your oil drain plug that goes into the underside of the cases would be a better guage for that (fine layer of crap on it, like lead pencil dust, fine, big chunks of crap, not so hot :lol:

[77]

Thanks. That is much appreciated. A mate the other day mentioned that the engine to him sounded really noisy at idle compared to his WR450, and I guess it had been playing on my mind and reared its ugly head when you mentioned the oil screen, and I had a flash back (like the one in Naked Gun 3 1/2 - Leslie Neilsen taking of the Fugitive :lol: ) where I did not check the screen and I know that the dealer would not have done it on the 1st and second service.

[Wobbly]

If it hasn't been done then it's worth while doing for sure, just for peace of mind. Like I said, easy to do with an oil change.

And when you're worrying about bottom end noise, try pulling the clutch in and see whether it's just lash on the basket that's making the noise. WR's have always sounded to me like they have a box of hammers rolling around inside them, but the DRZ isn't all that quiet for sure.

[jakestein]

WR's have always sounded to me like they have a box of hammers rolling around inside them, but the DRZ isn't all that quiet for sure.

Meh its charecter Neil,

[Flash]

WR's have always sounded to me like they have a box of hammers rolling around inside them, but the DRZ isn't all that quiet for sure.

I don't get it, don't al four strokes sound like this? :lol:

[Wobbly]

My god, a big single 2 stroke at idle sounds like not only did it have the box of hammers rolling around but the full carpenter's toolbox :shock:

[Flash]

Maybe it need main bearings! Sibbos bike sound sweet!

[Wobbly]

Almost every single 2 stroke i've heard has sounded like a rattle gun at idle!

[Flash]

My YZ is very quite compared to the Husky. I have to get used to the engine noise each time I get back on the Husky. I swapped between Steves WR250f and my YZ and I couldn't rev his bike because it sounded like it was going to blow, and it was new. (there was nothing wrong with it.'

The other thing Neil I have found with a lot of dirt bike people they are happy to put a piston in their bikes but can't be bothered doing mains etc. I usually find the mains make shit load of noise.

[Wobbly]

Probably - can't say I've ever put in main bearings in a two stroke myself, but I've certainly recycled some :lol2:

[Sibbo]

Sibbos bike sound sweet!

The sound of hp my friends!

After I repacked the muffler, I could not ride properly (or more retarded!) as I could not actually hear the bike it was so quite. It was like..drdrdr wheelspin (correct gear) and drdrdr incontrol (wrong gear). I had no idea what gear I was in for about 1/2 the day, until I managed to tune into the suttle differances of the slient bike.

Normally it is ring.ding.ding wheelspin vs. drdrdr in control. Pretty easy to tell whats going on.

[Flash]

Yeah but there is no rattle is there?

[Wobbly]

Remember I said at idle, not racing along :)