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Canadian Daves JustKDX
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[QUOTE="Old Man Time, post: 950927, member: 62844"] I took my 05 220 out on a very Technical slow steep ride last Saturday. My jetting was not right and I had no low end at all. Not a good thing in steep slow areas. I had to rev the bike all the time to get the power band so I had enough power to climb. Needless to say all this reving and slipping the clutch heated the oil up which heated the coolant up and I ended up over heating and spewing out quite a bit of coolant. With that kind of clutch abuse any bike would have over heated. After reading this thread I hope I don't run into the same problems you have. It seems the only way I have been able to give my bike some bottom end pull is to lean the slow jet circuit. I am already down to #42 Slow Jet with the needle on the #1 clip and a #145 main. And it acts like it would do better with a #40 slow jet, it still has a hesitation down low. Airbox lid removed, Boyseen power reeds and FMF torque desert pipe. The bike still hesitates a little down low but nothing like it did when I was rich in the idle circuit. Then it simply did not have any low end nada (not an exageration). I run a 40:1 mix (sometimes 50:1 mc1). The bike never overheats when I am abusing it in the desert. I hope I was right about clutch abuse causing it to over heat in the moutains. I don't like the idea of evans simply because if you lose it on the trail due to a broken hose or whatever, even if you fix the problem your not to mix it with water. I guess you can flush your system and then put water in it while on the trail. But I still may become an Evans fan if I find in the future my bike does overheat. Also does not Evans mask a possibly more serious problem? When a bike overheats its telling you something ain't right. Evens does not boil over because it must reach a much higher temp to boil in the first place. Your bike may be running hotter than it should and you would never know. At least that is one arguement I have read against it. I don't have a firm conviction on this due to the fact that I have not tried it or investigated it enough to know what is true. Sounds like those who have tried it are convinced. [/QUOTE]
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