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In this video we remove the carburetor from the XR650L and fix the pulse generator in stop
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motion and we pay tribute to one of my favorite channels on youtube. Stick around
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Hi I'm Francois from AdventureBikeTroop.com. In this video I want to give a big shout out to
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George Corrales from Soup Classic Motoring. Go check out his channel if you haven't seen it before
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He does awesome stop-motion videos where he restores an old Mercedes W123 Range Rover and
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a Lotus Esprit amongst others. And it's just a pleasure to watch and he's such a nice guy
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George is so inspiring and motivating and always trying to get us, normal DIY mechanics, out there
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to work on our machines. So without further ado, here's me removing the carburetor
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Thank you Peace We be right back
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Now removing the carburetor from an XR650L is not a big job
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It usually takes between 10 and 15 minutes if you've done it before, which I've done
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a couple of times when I did the Dave's Mods. You can check out my video and learn from my mistakes up here somewhere
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The next thing we are going to look at is the bike wouldn't start, it cranked, wouldn't
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start, and I suspected the pulse generator because I measured and found an open circuit
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where it should have been between I think 417 and 523 ohms
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So here is some of that. Thank you
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Now in the end it ended up not being the pulse generator
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It was a bit dirty with metal filings. I cleaned it up and measured good after that
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Unfortunately the gasket on the clutch cover was damaged So I had to make new one is difficult to find one locally
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They're expensive and they have to come from overseas which takes six weeks at least to get here
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So I just made my own one from a roll of flexoid gasket paper. It was kicking around here in the shed
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I didn't film this because by this time the stop motion was just taking too long so George I don't know how you do it
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big respect and but and please keep making those awesome videos but the next
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time I wanted to start the bike it was dead again so I gave the CDI a smack and
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it started right up I did order a new one it just arrived today put it in the
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bike start first time so that was probably the problem all along and I
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remember mentioning in a previous video where I had a no start condition that it
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was dirty terminals and a flat battery now it could have been partly due to
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that but both times I did smack the CDI as well just for good measure so that
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is absolutely the wrong way to go about it not methodical at all I did mention
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it before it was just a hapazit trying different things at once and they never
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really know which one was the problem so please learn from that and just taste
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one thing at a time isolate the problem and fix it without wasting your time and money
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thank you for joining and i'll see you next week