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Date: Thursday Feb 7, 2002 12:26 pm
Subject: Punky & Lew departing Lima

I picked up my repaired bike with a new piston, rings and wristpin, from Luis's shop last night. The main 150 DynoJet has been reinstalled and the needle clip put back to the middle position. By the way, the offending main jet that was removed is a 130. I instructed the mechanic, Juan Carlos, to use 10-40 Castrol automotive oil after flushing the oil with metal particles out. It runs great and I don't see any leaks. I will run it no more than 5k rpm for 500 miles, drain the oil, run it another 1,000 miles and drain it again. Then, I will use Mobil 1 sythetic 15-50 thereafter. Just to make it perfectly clear to anyone who may have misunderstood, the engine meltdown was due to my own ignorance concerning the critical importance of not running an engine with the carburetor fuel/air mix too lean. This was not the fault of the KLR 650. The meltdown has cost me a total of $700, including parts, shipping, import duty, trucking the bike 900 km and the mechanic's bill of $100, as well as a 2 week delay. I expect Critter will continue to serve me well, if I don't mess it up. We will depart Lima tomorrow morning, Friday, Feb. 7, riding more carefully through mountain curves (a new sticker reads, CRASHING SUCKS), heading for Cuzco via the good paved southern route through Ariquepa, I think? We will visit Machu Pichu, The Sacred Valley and Lake Titicaca, before riding to La Paz, Bolivia. Then, we will ride south and westward back across the Andes into The Atacama Desert of Chile. Then, south to Santiago and Puerto Montt, where we will take a coastal ferry boat to Punta Arenas and ride to Ushuaia, Tierra Del Fuego. I still think we can get it done by March 1. This afternoon, the hostal owner's friendly daughter, Achi, is taking us for a tour of Lima. She has been very nice and helpful. Shit happens, but we always manage to meet these kinds of people, like Luis Diaz Sotomayor, whose friendship and kindness has made recoveries a lot easier. Hasta luego, amigos y amigas.

Punky & Lew

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