$200 Kawasaki Dirt Bike - A Big Mess
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- We had to take a break from youtube for a couple weeks to clean up a house, but now we've got that mostly under control. In this video I discover a possible solution to the KDX200's engine trouble. Sorry for the delay.
I've got six microwaves and eleven shoes. Can I rent your house?
I highly doubt that the carb seal was the issue but I still think like many others that you won't know if you fixed it until you clean the exhaust out, there's so much oil and gas and sludge in there that even if this thing ran perfect its probably spewing out smoke and gas and oil for quite a while until it cleared..
Pancakey and dounuty? I love it.
I'll be using these technical terms with customers from now on.
EG: You have a pancakey head gasket, so we will need to take off the top layer of the layer cake and shave off some icing before putting on the new dounuty gasket.
Great to have you back! Time to take some of those quarters and buy a gas engine for that Barbie Jeep...and some rings for the green machine.
This is the only motorcycle and whatever show I watch on TH-cam. You two get along so well. She does keep you in line, though.
I got no notification. Hope you get some good tenants in your rental, you guys are real cool people.
i like this channel allot. i like that you show the failures too (you learn something every time so truly not a failure) but its good too see the ups and down keeps it real and honestly helps the rest of us remember things in the event we run into them as well as knowing what to look for. you guys rock keep it up!
Ive watched all your videos and I have about a 70% understanding now of a motorcycle compared to my 10% when I first stumbled upon this channel.LOVING EVERY VIDEO
Holys Moly I know this is an old comment but same here I stumbled across this channel and know so much about carburetors now .. Like I'm in school or something!
You are so lucky to have her...... You have NO IDEA
Team Jennies Garage, not only do I get an education on small engine troubleshooting. The friendly banter and interplay between you is a joy to see/watch/hear. Cheers to you :) many thanks and continued growth and success :)
I clicked on this video (because you ALWAYS watch a new JG video immediately when you see it) and just realized an hour and a half has gone by and I've watched like 17 of your old videos that I've already watched. I love Jennies Garage ❤️
Bravo to the camera lady...hands on training. Love your videos. You guys have a Merry Christmas and a safe and a Happy New Yr..GB.
I grew up too poor to pay attention. When I was 13 I worked for a guy for two months to buy a busted-arse atc 110. I learned to work on it and resurrected it and that was my foray into motorcycle repair and building. That was 30 years ago. Since then I've acquired and rebuilt many motorcycles. I rebuilt my CRF450R last year, top and bottom, and I'm currently rebuilding the carbs on my CB600f. It's kinda cool hearing the background of how you learned much in the same way. Necessity is the mother of invention, but also education. ✊
You might be the most tenacious person on TH-cam. A great example for everyone watching.
Have you cleaned that exhaust out? Drain the gearbox oil flush it out completely then try starting it, as long as you don't ride it there shouldn't be any risk to the gearbox, I'd put a Buck on it being the crank seal though and just go ahead and change it
Might have fixed the problem. Most 2 strokes will shoot out that black spooge stuff”unburied premix” when the bike isn’t getting ridden hard enough. Also might want to check the packing in your muffler could be soaking wet.
Where you been? Thought you left us and got a life... Hope not as your videos bring a smile to my face when I have a bad day in my head.. :)
I really like your videos, Jennie's Garage. I love dirt bikes and your rebuilds on motorcycles make me so interested in the rebuild videos. I am so motivated to watch them. I am passionate about your videos with a sense of enjoyment. I find it a really good time to sit back and watch an amazing show such as yours. I learn a lot and find you and your family are really neat.
I really enjoy when you make your rebuilds, the Shasta, dirtbikes, trail bike etc, very nice. It really makes me happy.
Man I really like this blokes enthusiasm and willingness to share!
You need to repack the silencer before you go deep into the engine ... as bad as it was running before that silencer has GOT to be clogged with wet oil/fuel...there are really only 3 things that can cause raw fuel to blow out like that , #1 would be compression, #2 would be weak spark , #3 would be a leaking needle/seat in the carb.. good luck
Is it just me or did he forget #3?
Sorry didn't read all of the comment... or just drunk
Wow! What a great couple you are! Thanks for sharing your mechanical adventures with us!
Your channel is awesome love the commentary! Also, you’re wife is awesome for the support, what a keeper!
Ive been away from youtube for awhile & have 0 reason to go on here but i love these videos. Your smart the way you diagnose thing & you give some interesting tips I personally would nvr think of working in my bikes. Thanks for awesome content & keep it up!
Brother man you and your wife just make my day everytime I see your video so when I'm in a bad mood I just watch one of your videos and I subscribed keep on with the videos and definitely keep on smiling and laughing watching out of Tallahassee Florida
Came across your channel now I can’t stop watching
You guys are awesome. Cant wait to see camera lady give the bike a test ride when its completely running. Be safe and have a marry Christmas.
I was seriously just randomly wondering if y'all would upload today. Prayers answered.
This guy is a true man’s man!!
A new red ruckus seat for the wife and a cool driver arcade game for the kid. No matter what you thought was the problem with the Kawasaki and what the actually problem is, you can do no wrong. :)
EVERY MONDAY NIGHT I HAVE BEEN WAITING, AND FINALLY THE 2 STROKE GOD HAS GIVEN.
No one goes silent on a project like 3D machines so you’re good
Lots of love, and a merry cristmas from Denmark! You guys are always a blast to watch :)
God do I feel your pain. It is always up and down working on engines. When you think you got it and ya gotta go back to the drawing board. Good luck!
Well you did say you “think” not you’re 100% sure, it’s trail and error and process of elimination, I enjoy watching you guys,great team work !!
I too do motorcycle and scooter work out of my own home garage and would someday like a KDX plated bike. Keep up the good work. Very entertaining, motivational and interesting. In my experience, once cases are split, might as well inspect all bearings, replaced as needed and replace all seals. Seals are cheap. Good luck, and congrats on the CA plate, BRAAAAP.
Fixing complex machines is very emotional!
Beautiful smile cameraGirl!
I've been watching for a few months now and I love your videos. You remind me of the old 3dmachines before he turned his channel to trash. These are the type of videos I love to watch. Keep up the good work!
Another Fantastic Video
Love the Pink Sweater 😜
An old Yamaha Race bike builder here. ( family owned a dealership who built Freddie Spencer's early racers before he got the Honda factory ride.). That engine is not breathing. Here's where I would go:
1. Clean that pipe out , reinstall it and run it hard until it's no longer loaded up. ( with a fresh plug in it).., 2. Probably not a crank seal. It wouldnt spew fuel if it was. Only oil., 3., Oil/fuel tank mixture too rich?? , 4., Timing?, 5., Metering Needle set too high ?., 6., Bent reed valve, if any ? Maybe. Probably not. 7. Remove air cleaner to test ( for now). I bet that exhaust port is 1/2 the size it needs to be, due to carbon. Hope this helps.
Long time viewer, first time commenter. I grew up riding motorcycles and working on them with my dad in the garage (since I was 5, I'm 33 now), so I enjoy watching your videos of fixing up bikes. This one got me though, you are wearing exactly what my dad would wear a lot of the time in the garage. Ripped up jeans with grease and who knows what, dirty shirt of the same description, and the same maroon zip up hoodie. Not saying I look up to you as a father figure or something, just made me laugh. Keep it up, sir.
A good way to check crank seals, is to remove side covers on engine, take spark plug out, then fill with mix gas, while piston is on bottom of stroke. Check for gas leaking out seals.
Again I was wondering where you were. Another try didn't work but keep going. You wife's voice is so pleasant to hear behind the camera. Nice that she gets something too.
Repack the silencer and clean out the expansion chamber.check the reed valves and make sure they are sitting flat on the cage,if not,replace them.also check the float level,the float should sit parallel with the carb body,if it's too high,your getting to much fuel.one more thing to check is the choke,look at the bottom of the plunger,if the rubber seal is bad,it can leak fuel past it also.hope this helps!!!
The exhaust needs a good hard run to clean it up, it will shoot oily gas out for quite a while after running cold and rich. Take it out and beat the snot out of it for at least 45 minutes then rinse and repeat test.
muffler is stopped up.
I think he had it running without the muffler
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You gotta hate the "Pay or leave" speech but it's part of the bidness. Great video, made a lot better by the camera girl. Thanks guys!!!
You remind me of myself an older version of me your doing good work here thanks for sharing you're Wise information
I just stumbled upon your videos and I was hooked. Bikes are like water bugs it takes a dandelion and a cloud of rainbow dust to scuba dive in a cold volcano.. makes no sense lol
Love your videos! Honest and entertaining. 👍
You're getting it figured out. It seems as you're similar to me. When I have a project going it absolutely consumes my brain until it's done. I rebuild it over and over and over in my head. Then when I have an epiphany in the middle of the night I have to run to the garage or I wouldn't sleep anyway. Also, please clean out that exhaust and repack the silencer when you get your fuel issue fixed. I'm sure you already know that though.
Clean and repack the silencer before tearing apart the bottom end love the videos keep em coming....
Hey guys, I love watching your videos. Very entertaining and fun. Judd.
I love watching you!!!! More videos !!!!! Keep going BrosiVe .....!!!! EriC from Indiana
I have no mechanical knowledge to offer, but still love watching your video's you two :)
Make sure that the float height is correct at the specified carburetor angle in the manual. Even if the float looks parallel with the bowl, it only takes few degrees to make your engine run rich.
Im a big fan from Australia, keep up the great videos pal.
Things don't always go according to plan, that's what keeps them interesting
Mine ran rich and it turned out to be bad reeds. Replaced them and it ran amazing.
Really enjoying your projects
Its time to do a full rebuild! Do It! Do it!
Always good to check your reeds. If they don’t seal good it won’t run well either
"just trust me that this is gas, i'm not going to use the torch here"
Only thing I think it could be is that the float is no longer floating, which makes it act like a bad need valve and seat problem. So many of these bikes were made long before anyone thought they would be putting so much ethanol in the gas we buy which is very hard on the older fuel systems. I have to run Seafoam in my scooter to help prevent damage from the ethanol. In other words, either the float has pinholes and fills with enough gas to make it not float or, it has soaked up enough gas to not float if it is a solid type. Good luck. Oh, you need to give Jennie her battery back, ha ha.
Soon to be camera boy watching his girl fixing things up......Merry Xmas and a happy new year.
That bike has an onboard oil injector, check to see if it has been turned up too high.
Also check to see if the float level is good, if the float level is high, it will flood gas into the motor.
Also take the packing out of the silencer, it has to be soaked with gas and oil.
Cheers from Tokyo Japan
You have to admit, the red seat looks good on the Ruckus!
Mate something worth thinkn about is the fact that the KDX may well have bn running rich on fuel and possibly gearbox oil as youve diagnosed ....but what im suggesting is during this running time it will hav filled the expansion chamber and tailpipe with residual oil/fuel....so i suggest you clean the exhaust as best you can ..eg ..wash it out with solvent and/or burn it out.....then when ever you alter the carb etc youl see a more accurate tell-tail out of the exhaust....also sometimes the internal baffle tube in the tailpipe can dislodge or break essentially blocking the flow path (partially) n as a result making the engine drown in its own burnt and unburnt gases......just a thaught worth lookn into .....Luv ur videos n keep up the good work ...n please squeeze cameragirl for me cas she's just so god damm adorable...n youre lucky to have found her ..lol ...cheers
I think it’s probably oil rings need replacing this is so funny I really hope u get it sorted out
Man, you guys are GREAT!!! Stumbled on your channel ,again and have laughed for 2 days solid.I have seen some of your older videos but they are more " business ".However, I love the more recent ones with some goofin around, but still great info.I'm a life long dirt bike guy and now at the age of 51 still love riding and fixing up old beaters.My three sons and I have about 4 miles of trails and and track on our farm and ride often as we can.If your bored, you can check out some of our videos,low budget and not that great,but you see how we roll.Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
7:22 just trust me that’s gas not gonna use the torch here😂😂😂
Keep on going. Tis the season tat miracles happen!
Ur a great teacher was missing ur vids.
The Yamaha 2-stroke I have has an oil pump that can go out of speck and just piss oil into the intake. It smokes like a chimney when that happens, but can be calibrated and fixed fairly easily.
O-ring around the needle seat will also leak and allow fuel into the float bowl that's not metered , overflowing the bowl
Depending on your state or county landlord tenant laws, you may need to write an abandoned property USPS certified letter to tenant's last known address and wait the statutory time to lawfully keep that stuff. This notice of abandonment may protect you from a tenant coming back and claiming an unlawful lockout. Oh and change the locks. Remember to do background checks with next tenant.
loved watching the son driving that video machine
my 98 has had that seal problem for couple years,i finally ordered one and am installing tonight and water pump seal,mine ran fine other than it smoked more than it should and lower gas milage,rebuilt top end bout 1000 miles ago so i hope it makes a difference,my kdx is highly modified and street legal and i still ride trails and sand,im also swapping 2005 kx250f forks on it tonight as well,i might gopro it and start a channel soon
Take the pipe and silencer off, take packing out of silencer (don't worry about replacing packing till you figure this out), clean both with mineral spirits, air, long screwdriver, whatever, you'll be able to tell when they're clean. They shouldn't be very heavy. Run your fuel/oil mix at 50:1 with some quality pre-mix oil (I prefer yamalube 2R). Bad crank seals would cause a LEAN condition.
I love your unique style man
Love the videos. Please involve camera girl more with hands on things. Really trying to get my old lady more into these things. Next episode: newbie wrencher camera girl splits cases lol
Test your float needle seal. If it isn't stopping the fuel when it needs to, the bowl can overfill, leak past the reeds and accumulate in the crankcase. The expansion chamber/silencer may need cleaning out also. There may be an accumulation of premix in the crankcase. Just my thoughts and I'm just a lowly shadetree mechanic. I love your videos and buy your wife a new reliable battery.
perhaps it could be that the ring gaps need to be at half and half. or at least 1/3rd from the other at being center. if the gap in the rings are in the same place, it will allow oil to bypass to the top of the piston head.
OR the bottom cylinder could have a warp in it , to '' just '' allow enough oil to get tot he top of the piston.
OR the valve seals ( if it has any) could have popped off their seat, causing massive oil in the exit of the exhaust.
hmm, also for every engine, there has to be pressure control to allow the constant movement of the piston.
take the exhaust off, and drown it in kerosene = k-1 to wash out the oil, shake it every 30 mins to move the oil out of it. after 4 or 5 hrs, remove it from the bath drench with gaas , let dry,shake it every 15 mins for 2 hrs. so give the gas has time to dissipate.... after that lay a small line from the exhaust 5 feet away, light it. let the remaining fumes burn off.
make sure you are out side and away from a small get away.
doing that will keep you from purchasing a new muffler and exhaust.
as for the ruckus ... those are nuts ... not bolts...bolts have a shaft with external threads...nuts have internal threads without a shaft.
awsome vlog!!
Shasta 😅 dude your wife doesn't forget much does she?...lol
A little scary that way she is, Yoda quote.
This guy is inspired me to my new hobby
All 2 strokes smoke a lot on a cold start up. Mine would do the same thing and foul out a plug every 2 hrs.I switched my premix oil to amsoil saber 1.5oz per gallon is 100 to 1.Yes I know that your thinking but since the change to amsoil I have put roughly 50 tanks of fuel through it and had the same spark plug for 3 yrs and once warmed up the smoke problem is completely gone.
Pilot jet:42
Main jet:155
Needle: Sudco CGK 017.018
This will get you CLOSE but you have bigger problems with those seals bro, but you already knew that.
I forgot about that gasket in the carb. I bought that exact same security bit set at 6:43 for doing this haha
Great videos. Happy holidays to you all!
“Shovelin’ shoes”. Awesome. 🤣
Please upload more !!! Love the videos
Have you tested the float in the carb for leaks? Get a clear container of gas and push the float down into it so it is completely covered. Turn the float over every direction and see if any air bubbles come out, or you can feel any gas sloshing around inside the float. If the float leaks and fills with gas, it won't float, won't close the main metering valve, and cause an obscene rich condition.
I love you and Camera Girls relationship :)
LOL "shovelin shhhhhhhhh...... oes"
you would be surprised how long goil(gas/oil mix lol) will stay in the chamber and silencer. I recommend removing the pipe, blowing it out real good with the baffle removed and then re-pack.
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The red seat's kinda cool! Like it. The crank seal doesn't explain the rich gas mixture though although it does explain the oil problem. Eliminate fuel in the exhaust pipe first. That would be easy enough. You two are a hoot together.
"pancakey" & "donutty".....Dude, your wife is adorable.
New here so probably already been covered but seen a simular situation on a ride on mower where fuel needle was leaking due to dirt causing fuel to seep into engine and mix with oil, smoked like hell, changed oil, cleaned needle and five minuets of hard work later the smoke was pretty much all gone. Think on the mower engine this had also caused the oil level to rise so it was blowing this fuel oil mix out the breather into the intake
time 5:33, i think changing the seal will help improve the usage of fuel BUT you still gotta change the original seals, bearing ect. basically a complete engine over haul
This guy is great.he kicks ass All his videos his wifes wonderful