Not too sure where this is going, but I wanted to document things before I got too far into this.

Picked up this girl off a buddy for 500 bucks.





2001 LS650 - 10,300 miles

Of course it needed a new battery....so in THAT went...fresh tank of gas, and a little STP treatment and off to the parking lot it went.

Upon initial inspection, it needed a carb cleaning....BAD...

And...

The baffles were grossly cut out of the exhaust:



So apart she went.

Started with cleaning the carb....

And Discovered this:



That's a 230 main jet!  Not too sure where that came from...but it wasn't from Suzuki....So time for jets and while I'm at it....exhaust too.  I found from my research, that with a Dyna muffler and stock airbox, I'd be looking at somewhere near a 155 main and 52 pilot.  I'm considering tubbing out the airbox and doing something similar to this:

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1295745373

(I really fell in love with that mod)

So along with the pipe I ordered 155.5/52.5 jets from Jets R Us.

Now I'm just waiting on fedex!

And you're all caught up.  

Well....it is a bit late for this....but I would have suggested you get a main jet down to a 150.....and pilot down to a 50 while you were ordering them.  I think a lot of folks are jetting the bike too rich, and a #155 is usually too rich.

With a stock air box and Dyna Muffler....a #150 main and #50 Pilot and 2 washers on the needle my bike ran the best.

Good choice on the Dyna muffler, experiment a little an intermediate pipe makes it sound real nice  

Thats how to get into a bike,, 500 bucks & some sweat equity & youll be good to go.. YOu shouldnt be in it more than 600 when youre out & riding, unless the tires are old or worn out,,
Be gentle with that exhaust pipe,, its only held by 2 skinny little bolts going into that aluminum head,,If pulling the old or installing the new requires much grunt, youd better pull the header off the motor.,

YOure at 10k miles,, YOull need to have a look at the cam chain in a few thousand,
& Dont pull the plug w/o blowing the crap out from around it,

Im always sayin that, I did it once & spent a coupla hours with different things pokin in there with toilet bowl wax on it, dabbing out bits of crunchy stuff that fell in,, urinated me right off, that did..

BryanA wrote on 05/10/14 at 20:26:41:


You'll want to check the cam chain tensioner. Chances are the chain itself is OK at that mileage unless it was seriously abused. Check out the multiple threads on the tensioner. You need to pull the clutch side cover to see that.
At 10K, definitely want to do that before you do any serious riding. Mine had about 9K on it at the tensioner was about to fall out and it needed the plug cap fixed (mine was leaking oil exactly like that).

You need a T-clamp

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Lots of work in my future. Ordered, a oil plug, had the exaust sand-blasted(I have a friend), new petcock, AND checked the chain tensioner.

So.  I have a buddy that cleans and paints industral tanks and vessles. Had him prep my exhaust for VHT Paint Next week



Where's all the shiny go!!  It's almost sad huh!

Pulled the clutch cover off and checked the cam chain:





Not bad.  For those of you mechanicly challenged .68 inches displacement.  So....I'm not parking it, but I already got in touch with Versy about a new tensioner.

Next up, changing out that oil seal in the head and paint on the exhaust!

VHT high heat paint is garbage, has been since the 90s. Spend the extra money for ceramic coating. The paint will burn off of the first few inches of header pipe within a week or two.