KZ200 1st time poster

Hello all

I picked up a 1978 kZ200 today. Real nice bike i just dont know much about them. I would love to talk to a guru that has one of these.

My questions

1) I see 2 drain plugs under the bike. The 1 toward the center of the engine is the engine oil drain but the other one that is kinda close to the shifter is confusing me. I did not pull it because i could not find a fill for it.
What is it???

2)When i pulled the side cover off that exposes the chain to the starter a bunch of oil drained out. Is the generator supposed to get oil around it?
The oil in there does not seem like it shares the engine oil because i went ahead and poured a quart of oil in the engine fill hole to see if it would drain out the side cover and it did not.
OK tonight i ran bike with gererator side cover off and it was spittin a little oil out.

3)Engine has a knock in it. I cant quite figure out where its coming from I played with the tensioner tonight but realy dont know how tight to make it. My bike does not have acces to the chain so i played with the adjustment screw while engine was running. Its got lots of travel. As i turned it in the engine would slow down. I dont know what the heck i am doing.

4) My VIN is KZ200A-016300 What can be told about this?

BTW i did buy a manual off ebay today for it.

Thanks

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