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Old 27 Oct 2006
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2006 Adventure. 5000km into Africa trip - in Egypt.

Sidestand - aftermarket from KTM Sommer. Broken 2 bloody centre stands (the bolt) with it and now its bent and won't work. Dont bother putting it on, waste of money. You get used to the centre stand with panniers etc.

Leaking a small amount of oil from the sighting window on the RHS of the engine. The seal on the window has gone.

Apart from that, great bike which is doing the job well. Just wish you didnt have to remove the tank to get to the spark plug...
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Ok... posted an ironic comment on this thread 19th feb regarding Adventure vs Dakar. Now I have decided to give the KTM 640 ADV a try and bougth one
last week......

Havent started to ride it yet but the history from previous owner is:

2005 mod
5000km
Neutral bulb changed.
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Just curious, to some of you who posted on this thread a couple of years ago, do you still own your Adventures and if so what kind of mileage are you up to now? I own a 03 and so far other than a rocker cover oil leak it's been pretty much trouble free for 41,000 km. regular wear and tear items:
12,000 km new sprockets and chain
17,500 repad brakes
20,500 replace worn needle/needle jet
23,500 sprockets and chain
26,200 new float +needle valve assembly
30,300 new countershaft seal + o-ring
31,000 rear wheel bearings+ renew exhaust hanger bushings
37,100 chain and sprockets + countershaft seal and o-ring
38,000 repad brakes
41,000 rebuild water pump + replace cam follower and main cam bearing + replace float needle/seat + new jet needle {preventative maintenance}

So far so good.........
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Island Hopper,
Your experience mirrors mine with my '02 640 Adventure at 20K miles-32K Km.
I have not had rear wheel bearing problems though. i just removed them, regreased them and put them back in service.
Hope I don't regret that decision.
With regard to your other problems, I think I had them all.
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Sidestand - aftermarket from KTM Sommer. Broken 2 bloody centre stands (the bolt) with it and now its bent and won't work. Dont bother putting it on, waste of money. You get used to the centre stand with panniers etc.
+1 and the footprint is useless off-road. A pencil would be more use.
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I read this topic before going on my trip, i never thought i would get to post in it too. I have a problem, BIG one that is, so i'm asking for your advice.
Being in Altai mountains, near Ak-Tash and going to Mongolia, i dropped my bik in a big pond, with some mud on it. Not gettng to stop the engine quick enough, in got a few gulps of dirty water in the carburettor and then in the engine. Changing the air filter and the sparkplug seemed to make it work fine at that time, so i went on with it. But after 500km or so, it started consuming lots of oil. So much that it freaked us and decided to head back to Barnaul, where we opened the engine and found the piston rings were worn out. Changed them, and the bike still has little power, low compression as one can feel in the kick pedal and also most alarming of all consumes lots of oil, about 1 liter/300km.
At this point i don't know what to do next, if it is valve rings wear, then mybe we cantry gettingand fixing them in Amaty, as we are now 900km from it, but if it is cylinder wear we have no choice but to drive it as it is and complete the oil every 100kms. When weopened it, we could not see any visible signs of wear, and yet, the oil is going away like crazy.
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It's time to update again: The last one was at 85,000 KM... I am now up to 122,000 KM....

My auto decomp cam is now worn out so I use the handlebar lever to assist on cold starts... I've replaced the needle jet/jet needle again due to wear..Replaced the chain sprockets a few more times{since 85,000}... Replaced the suspension dog bone link due to wear.. Replaced the exhaust follower roller and rebuilt the waterpump as well....

Over the winter I plan to do a bit of engine work:

Replace the camshaft, camchain and sprockets.... Replace the intake follower and piston rings... Replace the clutch, check and replace {if required} the oil pumps and the oil bypass piston spring.... Measure gear shaft and crankshaft slop and replace bearings if required.... Send the head in for valvework....
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Link on post no 52.
Hi there,

On post no 52 there´s a link to the ADVrider site for problems on the LC4.
Now, i got the problem that i need to replace the oilseal at the drive shaft.
I´ve never done that before and thaught it would be a good help if i can print that description on that site how to do it.
I opened it a couple of weeks ago and i could see everything. Now, i´ve tried to open it through different browsers but the pictures don´t open. So i only got the text. Can somebody tell me what´s wrong? Is it the site or does it depend on the internet connection, or something else?
Hope to hear from you.

Cheers, Bossit! :-)
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Hi there,

On post no 52 there´s a link to the ADVrider site for problems on the LC4.
Now, i got the problem that i need to replace the oilseal at the drive shaft.
I´ve never done that before and thaught it would be a good help if i can print that description on that site how to do it.
I opened it a couple of weeks ago and i could see everything. Now, i´ve tried to open it through different browsers but the pictures don´t open. So i only got the text. Can somebody tell me what´s wrong? Is it the site or does it depend on the internet connection, or something else?
Hope to hear from you.

Cheers, Bossit! :-)
The fellow that posted the pictures on that thread {and many others} pulled all his photos from them....

Most of the time it's not the actual oil seal that leaks at the countershaft.... Before you attempt to change that seal check the condition of the O-ring behind the countershaft bushing... A shagged O-ring is likely the cause of your leak... I believe the replacement is a 2x25 MM...
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