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No problem, it's a common occurrence on 4 stroke singles as the crankcase pressure varies wildly. This is a common mod on KLR 650's, but the science is all the same.

I've noticed that the XT consumes a little oil when ran above 5000rpms for a period of time (commuting to work). The compression tests out strongly, there's no oil deposits on the plug, and no smoke indicating excessive blow by. There was also a slight amount of weeping out of the valve cover...

My daughter and I went on a nature ride through the local country side (I'm a poet ?). She decided she liked the XT's capabilites and how it allows us to go out and see more of nature. Shes my future little biologist.

I put 115 miles on the XT today and logged oil temps. 65mph+ is now 30F+ cooler (used to run 245-255F, now it stabilizes around 215F), about 20F cooler around town (used to sit at 230F in stop and go, now it's around 205-210F). It cools off much faster once moving from a stop, before once heat...

MT-43 trials tires are balanced and installed. The grip on everything but mud is phenomenal. Aired down, they stick like velcro and are very confidence inspiring. 60mph on gravel feels very planted.

After monitoring oil temps, I found that 65mph+ on the highway caused them to steadily climb to a dangerous level. On a 85F day, oil temps would stabilize at 230F when cruising 55-60mph. By 65-70mph they would hit 260F+ and still be climbing. (Temp reading taken with a trailtech temp sender...

Today I floated the ground on the XT's stator and ran it to a full wave rectifier/regulator. The factory configuration used A/C for the headlight, and half wave rectified D/C to charge the battery. For a regulator, I like Trail Tech's unit. It has a dash pot to adjust DC output voltage, as...

Tonight I wanted to do an expirement with the ignition system on the XT-350 to see if any improvements could be made. I removed the resistor from the ignition lead cap, and installed a D8E-A NGK spark plug (non resistor style). This reduced the secondary resistance by 10k Ohms, and gave me...

Today I rewired the headlight and instrument cluster to use the D/C side of the electrical system (from the factory the wiring was spliced into the charge coil before it went to the rectifier). The LED lighting shed approximately 70w of power consumption (high beam on, brake light on, etc)...

After setting float height a bit lower, adding tee's to the overflow vents, and leaning out the mixture screw a bit it seems to be harder to flood.

Thanks! Desperate times call for desperate measures sometimes.. The XT350 was a kick start only bike, but it does have an automatic compression release. Once you learn the basics of how it operates its an easy kicker. I have the carbs dialed in as close as possible, it'll start with one kick...

Yamaha discontinued the CDI source coil some time ago for the XT350, which created some issues when it failed on me. After searching through a bunch of parts diagrams, I found the 80cc Raptor source coil was a similar size and resistance. I rolled the dice and decided to give it a whirl. I...

The low mount exhaust did shed quite a lot of weight, and so far It has survived pretty well. The skid plate extends far enough back that it protects the can reasonably well. Overall, for a cheap bike the 919s are hard to beat. I'm at almost 74k miles, and it still runs perfect!

I'm using the DJI Air 2S and it does have active track that will follow a subject. The lack of side obstacle detection ended up causing it to fly into the dune at about 20mph. So far it seems to have survived.

Thanks! The drone video is pretty lackluster, it was having issues tracking me and I didn't have anyone to drive while I flew. But, this is another type of terrain the truck has conquered in full camping mode! It even knocked down 15-16mpg at 70mph.

This past weekend we made it up to Silver Lakes to check out the Sand Dunes. This had been on my bucket list for some time, and it made for a very pleasant trip! We went with some good friends of ours, and split a campsite at Holiday Camping about 10 miles south of the Dunes. The facilities...

With the build more or less completed, I figured I'd break out the DSLR and get some glamor shots of the old girl.

Today I focused on improving storage without compromising handling or weight distribution too drastically. For the front fender, I went with a Trails End bag from Nelson Rigg. I'm able to store a spare tube, patches, and still have a little room for other odds and ends. I liked this particular...

After the tire incident, I decided I would like to have another dirt bike when we go camping (it was a good selling point for me to convince the boss, you know how it goes). So, I picked up a very low mileage 1986 XT350 and have began to build it up as a light duty ADV bike. Here is it's...