KZ 1000 Mk II 1980

Hey awsome bike man! too bad it isnt running as good as it looks... here is what i say.

---Blue smoke = Internal oil burning, most likely from Valve seals/guides, or piston rings, but could possibly be from bad gasketing. That could also cause backfiring.

---For the backfiring issue also check the air injection system...Its for emissions...There should be 2 tubes coming off the top of each side of your valve cover going to a valve, then a single tube to your air box...Faulty ones cause backfiring... People sometimes just remove this system and block off where the tubes were connected.

---The front suspension could be a couple things, Leaking fork seals, weak fork springs, or no fork oil...Or maybe a combination of the above. You can pull up the dust boot on the fork and inspect to see if oil has been seeping past the seals, or if the seals are dry and cracked.

---The fuel problem sounds like your carbs were overflowing...Perhaps sutck open float needles and removed overflow tubes...I would say clean them well, and tune them. People here will help you with that. Cleaning them isnt hard at all, just gotta keep all the pieces together. everything has to go back exactally how it was and where it was.

---Get some new spark plugs.

ive never worked on one of these bikes so i could be wrong about the air injection system....... :dry: Everything else stands though

good luck man

-Luke

Hi!!

Sorry for the delay!!!

I have the pictures...

Im still dont know how to add the lightbox effect to them... how did you do it??

One side of the motor...

not sure which lightbox your asking about...

but i load digital camera pics into a file....


then i re-size them with a free download that i have on my computer from "VSO" free download pictures to the internet re-sizer download......it only takes a few moments...

i resize my original files to 1200x 1200

pasted from an above reply:
someone here also turned me onto a free download for re-sizing pictures "VSO free image resizer download" it only take a few seconds...few tries to learn...and it allows folks to click and enlarge pics i post at 1200x1200 size to the whole screen size...see my example below

Sorry...

it was so easy... hehehehe

one side of the motor...

Front...

Other side...

I already remove the carbs for cleaning...

Back...

Crosstreath problem in sparplug hole number 2...

killer bike...good starting point...these things are pretty cool......here is a link to an article about the changes for the MKII from a normal kz1000 pre 1979...

kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...it=20&limitstart=440

and here is a picture of Eddie Lawson racing a 1980 KZ1000 MKII

Wow!!!! what a catch!!! 600dlls!!!! and working!!! mine was 1800 dlls, and it broke in the middle of the road, hehehehe

hahahaha

if you say you need more projects, you are super welcome in mexico and work on my mkii!!! hehehehehe, if its not too much to ask of course, hahahahaha

nice project!!

what did you decide?? black with golden? red?? or blue??

cheers!!