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Need a KLR650 motor in Buenos Aires
I'm working my way back north from Ushuaia and am currently in Buenos Aires. Someone vandalized my motor and it is now seized and probably dead. If possible, I'd rather replace the motor with a used one that will get me back to Colorado. That would be faster and less expensive than rebuilding this motor with new parts.
I don't know what my price range is yet, depends on the motor and its mileage.
My bike is currently at Dakar Motos, waiting for Javier to have time to look at it.
Anyone know of a motor I can get quickly?
Thanks in advance
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I'm working my way back north from Ushuaia and am currently in Buenos Aires. Someone vandalized my motor and it is now seized and probably dead. If possible, I'd rather replace the motor with a used one that will get me back to Colorado. That would be faster and less expensive than rebuilding this motor with new parts.
I don't know what my price range is yet, depends on the motor and its mileage.
My bike is currently at Dakar Motos, waiting for Javier to have time to look at it.
Anyone know of a motor I can get quickly?
Thanks in advance
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Hey Sgt,
Been following your website and Adv Reports. Sorry to hear about your situation. I'm in Panama headed to TDF and then Buenos Aires on a GS. If there is anything I can do for you, i.e., ship parts from Bogota, Quito, Lima, Santiago, etc let me know.
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Sorry to hear of your bad luck Marty. With the import taxes into Argentina I suspect you're least expensive option will be to rebuild. If anyone can do it Javier is the guy.
Best, and pass on a Hola to Javier and Sandra.
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Buying original parts in Argentina is indeed not the cheapest and the quickest option. And something as big as an engine wont be easy to hide to customs.
May be your best bet is to buy one of the KLR s for sale by international travellers and sell it back once at home.
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Buy and Ship?
Marty ... here's a link to a post offering up KLR....at DakarMotors no less... maybe ride one - ship one back as parts and then possibly rebuild and resell in the US??? May be some import issues though....
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Marty,
I have a few spare engines and have shipped heavy items to BA but unfortunately you cannot ship used parts. The tax is about 50% on new items. I just make out the invoice for half the price so my customers don't have to pay high taxes.
I think you are better off having someone work on the bike there and maybe buying the parts here in the US.
Good luck and keep us posted.
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Thanks, all.
Javier hasn't gotten a look inside it yet. A guy stopped by a couple days ago with a 2002 KLR he wanted to sell, and I missed him by five minutes. Javier gave me the guy's email, but he hasn't answered my message yet.
I'm still in our rented apartment, but after my wife leaves at the end of the week, I'll be back at Dakar Motos until a solution arises. My riding buddy will wait maybe a week with me, but after that he'll be riding north through Uruguay and Brazil. He'll ship his bike home from somewhere.
I met a Danish couple at Dakar Motos that bought one of the KLRs there and rode off on it today. There's another KLR there with a black IMS tank, but I don't know whose bike that is.
I have seriously considered flying home and back with a KLR motor split into two suitcases. None of the bike parts that my wife has brought to us (twice) has ever been questioned. The flight ticket would be about $1000, so I'd have that kind of budget for a bike here. All I need is the motor, really, but I might take other parts off and leave the rest to Javier to salvage for more parts.
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Engine for Sale
Marty this was posted by Flashboyz on KLR650.Net on Jan 8
2000 KLR650 Engine for sale. Engine has 14,500 original miles, runs and shifts great. Will need: waterpump gasket and cylinder head cover bolt (right front) is stripped and wont tighten. $750
Says he's from Tucson.
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Thanks, all.
Javier hasn't gotten a look inside it yet. A guy stopped by a couple days ago with a 2002 KLR he wanted to sell, and I missed him by five minutes. Javier gave me the guy's email, but he hasn't answered my message yet.
I'm still in our rented apartment, but after my wife leaves at the end of the week, I'll be back at Dakar Motos until a solution arises. My riding buddy will wait maybe a week with me, but after that he'll be riding north through Uruguay and Brazil. He'll ship his bike home from somewhere.
I met a Danish couple at Dakar Motos that bought one of the KLRs there and rode off on it today. There's another KLR there with a black IMS tank, but I don't know whose bike that is.
I have seriously considered flying home and back with a KLR motor split into two suitcases. None of the bike parts that my wife has brought to us (twice) has ever been questioned. The flight ticket would be about $1000, so I'd have that kind of budget for a bike here. All I need is the motor, really, but I might take other parts off and leave the rest to Javier to salvage for more parts.
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That is the one black tank KLR you talked?
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...rgentina-40244
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Yup, that's the bike. It looks nice. Too expensive for me, though. I'd rather wait 2-3 weeks for a much cheaper bike.
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My motor was removed today, but it hasn't been opened yet. There were a lot of steel and alloy bits in the oil. I'll find out within the next couple days what the decision will be. To rebuild or replace.
If anyone can point me to a KLR motor in Buenos Aires within 2 weeks for not much money, you get to be my hero. 
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Ok, the motor is apart and the damage isn't as bad as feared. The piston rings and cylinder are gone--too bad to reuse. The con rod is seized and will need to be replaced and the oil pump is badly scraped up from all the debris. There was a lot of metal--steel and bronze--in the oil. The transmission looked fine although I feared some damage there.
As far as we can tell, that's it, so I will be rebuilding the motor rather than replacing it. Thanks for all the suggestions, folks!
My wife is getting parts together now and the new plan if for me to fly home to fetch them this weekend and bring them back in my luggage. That'll be faster and maybe cheaper than shipping them and paying the import duties.
Should be on the road again next week.
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What means "vandalized?"
The KLR trashed internals sound ugly, but if you're going to soldier on with that bike, likely you've made the best choice to rebuild versus fly in a complete replacement engine.
I had my bike(s) parked in and around BA for as long as a month. Was wondering what you meant by your's being "vandalized." I've often worried about some local adding everything from urine to sand/dirt to the oil via the oil intake places, so changed those for less ease of access.
How did your engine get vandalized? For the rod, piston, rings, cylinder to go it sounds like a serious high speed siezure. Did they cut the water hose, so no cooling? Drain the oil by dropping the oil plug? Take a hammer to it?
Good to hear Javier got it sorted though. BA isn't a bad place to spend time, could have happened a lot worse places.
Good to hear there's light at the end of your tunnel.
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