Valley Ride 5-26-2009

Out for a Memorial Day ride. Had a wonderful time and beautiful weather.
4 bikes and 6 people, Sara is just learning to ride the new to nighthawk
and Matty took it for a little test spin. Matty is about to be a father
this week and we are all happy for him!

Coolant Oil - Oil Coolant

Well I received my jet kit and prefilter this past week and I decided it was time to install it on Saturday. This should have been nice and straight forward but as I have learned with KTM's 950 Adventure or my Adventure anyway it's never that simple. After I peeled the tanks I noticed some crap in the overflow reservoir on close inspection it turns out to be oil. Crap! This stuff is hard to clean out too so it's probably going to be floating around in my system for a while.I did a compression test to make sure I had not blown a head gasket but that proved not to be the case, of course if it's just between a coolant and oil passage I guess that would not show up anyway. Here are some shots of what I found.