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So I did a oil change on my 04 Lakota today I usually use Kawasaki 10w40 synthetic but I used the last of it on my KLX230 So I had about 6 quarts of Amsoil 0W40 4 stroke power sport synthetic oil in my basement and figured ill use this .Well all I can say is this oil is excellent its good for all weather extremes cold and hot I always thought 0 was only good for extreme cold but from Ansoil it says both cold and hot extreme climate and replaces 10-W40 ,So anywY quad is running smoother cooler engine to the touch shifts so much better Can this be just from oil and when I say that I know how important oil is to our machines but wow what a difference in the way this quad moves now Well I guess this is my new go to oil I always heard Amsoil was good but never used it I can deff say its good oil for my machine wY bettr then Kawasaki synthetic 10w-40 that I was using

actually did a gravity bleed when i filled it and then took my reverse bleeder and pushed all air out through resavour and worked great I picked up a small reverse bleeder on ebay i used it 2-3 times and works real well only down side i dont like to pour the fluid thats left over in reverse bleed bottle back in the container the fluid comes in , but as long as bottom of stem is coverd in bleeder u dont waste much Thanks for relpy

yea i was thinking does it need to be bench bled regular bleed i can do Seat comes off pretty easy thanks ill try reg bleed like you say

I have a 2004 Kawasaki Lakota 300 and have to replace rear master cylinder and rear caliper. Does a new rear master cylinder need to be bench bled or bled separately or can I just bleed whole system like a regular brake-bleed? If it does need to be done separately or on bench how would I do this Thanks in advance

yes I found some new caliper inserts and duat covers from a 85 and 87 lt 230 but now i have to rebuild my master cylinder i just been so busy this summer but was planning on getting on it this week now that summers over u can find a MC replacement for 20$ on ebay

Yes I will deffintly keep you posted and put up my results 100% thanks again

thank you so much as ur experience is pretty close to my own ever since the Shindy kit nothing at all but problems I actually just ordered all OEM carb parts from Partzilla and am going to rebuild the OEM with these parts . My only other experience with Shindy I rebuilt my Kawasaki Lakotta Kehiem CVK carb 3 years ago and its been running perfectly but since I tried to rebuild the Mikunni carb VM 23 its been nothing but a headache I actually had to put a Chinese carb on to sort things out bike is running but I want to go back with OEM as I dont trust or like the way machine runs on China carb I actually have 3 Miikunni carbs sitting in my basement that i have to rebuild But again thanks so much for the reply it deff helps my opinion of Shindy kits not being correct sizes and poor quality I should have just took all jets out cleaned them and put them all back from day one

gottca I have the OEM carb that came with quad im going to change all the jets and use all ORm jets as replacements the exact ones from Mikuni so hopefully that heps I learned the hard way what ur talking about with the ebay rebuild kits im going to get on it this week ill post results

I have a 1986 LT230 GE i bought a hard copy manual on ebay last year You may find it on here for free there r plenty of manuals

i have a manual I was just replacing old jets with newer ones but I feel the china rebuild kits many of the jets are wrong I got OEM jets from patrzilla just have not used them yet I have the quad running pretty good I think u helped me in the beginning of this post I basically replaced whole air and fuel system I just want to put the OEM jets back in and see if i can get to the point where im totally satisfied but its not bogging any more just feel it could have more power

thanks I kind of fixed it honestly it runs alot better had to change flange on engine side of carb and then changed all the air ducts from the air box out changed all fuel lines I want to say its fixed but it still does not run the way id like I have to change all the jets because Im really convinced that the jets i got on ebay from china are not the correct sizes even if they are marked as the correct size I have all new OEM jets just have not had time to swap them out prob will do it this week. Witch jet is the choke jet? I have it running pretty decent I clocked it about a week ago it did get up to 49 mph but it just does not feel right my problem is I have 2 4 wheelers and a dirt bike so its hard to remember how each one ran or runs especially when i haven't been riding the Suzuki much Thanks for input im going to chk i just not sure witch is choke jet

The adjusters should be ok the wheel is spinning freely but good point ill look into that its difficult to find any parts at all for these brakes I did manage to find some new springs these were rusty and very tight i dont know if thats a problem

this was before cleaning cylinders and changing dust covers i have cleaned them replaced dust covers and have them looking pretty nice and sealed now Witch is what i thought would fix the problem im going to do a reverse bleed and see what i can get .I know the cylinders are moving good also I used some fine emory cloth and cleaned them up soaked them in brake fluid and they seemed to be good i do have new springs coming also im going to do what u mentioned to chk hose for leaks but im almost positive there is no leak Maybe the drum was not seated against the wheel back plate as good as it should be ill chk on this as wheels are still off thanks will post results

I have a 1986 quadrunner 230 GE so the problem is I can not get any pressure in front brake lever I know this means a leak possibly or air but i opened all wheel cylinders and found one with a torn dust cover i had a spare cover and then pulled calipers soaked in brake fluid reinstalled amd still no pressure I can get fluid to come out of bleeders at wheels but cant build pressure Should and what if anything should i chk at master cylinder ? thanks guys

i have. manual for a 2003 kllf just to be sure its a Lakotta ? Im almost plsitve the years are interchangeable when i get home ill post info i willl try to see if I have it on my phone actually I think ur talking about a Bayou i have a Lakota its a KEF

i have. manual for a 2003 kllf just to be sure its a Lakotta ? Im almost plsitve the years are interchangeable when i get home ill post info i willl try to see if I have it on my phone

I have a86 LT quadrunner 230 shaft drive and I decided to do a rebuild on my carb a few months ago so I ordered a Shindy rebuild kit witch I have used on other machines in past and always was very happy with results. So problems start right after rebuild on my Mikuni VM 24 ss carb right from the start I had high rpm i couldn't control I found a hole in intake boot on fuel side and changed boot then I couldn't get enough fuel to carb I changed and used a OEM fuel pump I changed all fuel lines all vent lines all air box ducts and all parts are OEM also new throttle cable new fuel valve new fuel strainers in tank basically total new fuel and air system all OEM ! So I wind up finding a guy parting out same exact machine on ebay and has 2 OEM carbs so I buy both and 2 Shindy rebuild kits and rebuild them and still have same problem machine bogs out under load, finally fed up I buy a cheapo Chinese carb for 35$ and machine is running good not great but good ! So the other day cheapo carb starts leaking and I pull it off and take all of the OEM carbs go through them clean them again, not that they were dirty I use non ethanol fuel but they never worked anyway I install one same problem I go through all 3 same problem bog at load and one wont even idle at all so I fix leak on cheapo carb put it back works fine. Here is my thing im not a proffesonal mechanic but have owned and done enough work on machines that I have owned in my 54 years of life and I can not see me rebuilding 3 exact same carbs wrong I used Shindy rebuild kits on all 3 so are these kits reliable? I feel my main jet needs to be drilled out but why when im going stock with machine and its supposed to be 115 ? Anyone else experience problems with Shindy kits are there jets sized correctly ?Very frustrating

Im looking to get a tachometer or RPM meter to check idle speed on my 86 Suzuki LT quadrunner 230 GE and my other quads and dirtbikes I have . Does anyone recomend if I should use a tach or a RPM meter and know of a good one that hooks up easy I know there is 1 type that hooks up to spark plug and counts spark plug firing Anyone have experiance with this thanks guys

Its top speed is 51 in 5th gear Im almost positve this was the problem because now at full throtle i get steddy pipe diameter fuel flow if i move stop screw to open throtle more it breaks up and spurts and thats exactly how the quad runs like farts lol So im assuming the vacume is just not able to maintain a stedy flow past that point Hey I look at this way now i have 3 OEM carbs rebuilt and know the fuel and air system of this quad inside out upside down Nothing like on the job training thanks again im going go out with it in a day or so and take it in trails and run it but it ran for a few hours today without a hitch Thanks again my friend

Well today is the day if its possible ready for this i change the pump i take it for a ride and its running great up to 3/4 throtle i look at thumb throtle its past handle bar grip starts bogging I go and chk throtle stop screw its loose !! I set it to be even with handle bar grip meaning full throtle thumb lever is even to hand grip I chk all my other quads there all set the same. Now all of the sudden the carb is adjusting everythings working i download speedomoter app bike doing 48-51 mph at full throtle 5 th gear with it allways did no hesitation no backfiring no bogg !!! What I think happened was with all the vibration of the high idle s for days and taking the throtle cable on and off somehow the throtle stop got loose so i was going full throtle and actually pulling past the max ht of slide basically going into negitve air if that s what its called , and the way its set now the fuel does not break up going to carb at full throtle before it was again prob not enough vacumn because throtle was going past full open So now its tight set i checked side its going all the way up and quads running better then ever only took 3 rebuilt carbs 2 fuel pumps and all new air ducts and of course a manifold I basically revuilt the entire air and fuel system because a throtle stop was loose lol I cant think of anything else that it could have been like i been saying it idles perfect but once open to what i thought was full it would bog so it was going past full throtle Mech thanks for all ur help it was invaluable you really helped me out !!!!!!!!!! So im going to mark this one SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this morning i start quad it starts right up idles excellant i cahnged air filter old one was dry put freshly cleaned and oiled one still the same I pulled fuel line to carb at idle up to 3/4 throtle fuel is flowing the diameter of supply line but at 3/4 to full throtle it gets less deffintly a noticable diffrence less im going to change fuel pump and hopefully this is it I have brans new fuel pump OEM never used so ill give it a shot if thats not it i dont know what or wjere it could be ill report back what the outcome is later today Fingers crossed Mech lol and toes

When i replaced fuel pump the line came off fuel tank and fuel flew right out im deff going change pump its a easy swap and i have a brand new never used oem so its deff worth a shot at this point and ill change the vacumn line to manifold as well again thanks I cant wait to hit the mark as solution button on here lol I will let u know what happens

Sounds good i actually have a new vacumn hose i didnt use its OEM for this machine im getting a pulsating fuel flow when i took fuel line off today not steady stream but pulse i actually have a OEM brand new fuel pump im going try cant hurt . Do u think i should also empty tank and change the fuel filters in tanak i have a set i orderd and never used when i think of when all this started a few months back my problem started that i couldnt start quad in on position of fuel valve only on reserve and I put a used pump on and new fuel valve I feel the problem is around there why would it idle so well I have a video of idle and full throtle at idle and its perfect also going to try a new iridium spark plug Hey thanks for all ur help its so close

So put a brand new carb on and idle is perfect quad can idle for days full throtle at idle is perfect until i start riding and at 3/4 to full throtle quad bogs down I dont know what it can be i made adjustments to jet needle no change I put in a new spark plug no diffrence i put in a new air filter my only thing left is I have a new oem fuel pump and and i also have new fuel filters that go in fuel tank I will try changing them also what can this be im at witts end im really just stuck any ideas????

Thanks