20 Most Recent 1985 kawasaki Z 650 - Page 8 Questions & Answers

I use google for plug gaps etc, saves buying a workshop manual especially for a popular bike like a zx6 r,

You need 3 thing to fire, air spark and fuel, can you smell fuel at the exhaust tip ? That lets you know you have fuel. Air is a bit trickier to check, but normally it would start or at least fire up and splutter to a stop which would then point to carb needing checked for a blocked jet.

Look on the Neck.
Also sometimes it is located under the gas tank.

I can't tell you how you completed the wiring, but try a local Kawasaki dealer or contact Kawasaki for the service manual.

if you want to know the bike is getting enough oil it must produce white smoke via exhaust ,most of these 1974 bike do not have knob for oil adjustment but you adjust manually by adjusting the oil cable

You must have some free play in the cable or you will damage clutch. Why won't rod lock in correctly? Did you have cover off?

While it is possible there is bad battery connections or a relay your description is typical of a discharged battery or likely a battery with a bad cell. Remove and charge the battery and hope that is the end of your problem but if it isn't, replace the battery.

lots of sparks or lost the sparks ?

best way to tune this is to reshape the inlet port from a circle to a wedge shape as it has a rotary valve and put a decent expansion chamber on it.

This is the frame number !

you need to pull the code up and see what it points to

have some one do the work

Motor oil turns white/beige when it becomes emulsified with water or coolant. While the presence of emulsion can indicate an internal coolant leak or careless topping up the oil level, the nature of modern anti-pollution positive crankcase breather systems draws cool damp air into the hot engine. Some such systems aren't well designed and are prone to creating "mayonnaise", especially in the cooler, damper months.

Relay cud b bad or startr wires burnt or worn. Also batt must read 12.6 for a coil ign

Could it be an earthing problem

most likely the crankcase breather valve is not working properly.

One simple way to put the correct amount of oil in the forks is >>>with the fork caps removed and the spacers and fork springs removed from the forks, compress the fork all the down, then fill it 6 inches from the top. You can use a turkey baster (marked and measured) to remove the un-wanted oil if you overfill it.

A variety of possible issues here. Bad plugs dirty carbs or timing chain is stretched and timing is off.

try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkSeWJHhoQQ and others

if the color blue wire in the stator was no current what is the result?