Kawasaki Triples Club

Fit a new set of spark plugs.
Take off ignition cover & have a close look at the stator.
Unplug the right hand handle bar switch in the headlight, this will cut off
the kill switch. The kill switch is prone to shorting when wet giving ignition problems.
There is aprox 300 volts at the kill switch when the engine is running.

Stupid question time - have you checked that the rotor has not come loose ??

The smoke could be diesel residue and the backfire could be ignitioin related.

Hard to say this far away.

Have a look at the oil pump to see if it is stuck wide open.

I suggest taking the the genny cover off
I suspect that there's water in there, especially if you have both gaskets fitted for the genny covers
65 before reserve? Drop your needles one notch you are running way Ritch
Gary T

Try new plugs before you do anything else though as it sounds like it is trying to fire. The diesel has probably goosed them.

BIG H.

PM Sent

Fouled plugs, replace, or maybe plug caps on the wrong cylinders

I was thinking water in the fuel. It doesn't take much and unlike diesel it does settle to the bottom of the float chambers and crankcases where it causes all kinds of weird running, but having now viewed the video the smoke isn't white enough for water contamination and I'm back to the diesel consensus. Nice little side track to meander down though.

Bic,dont worry,that is the residue of diesel on the rings,the crank cases ,the carbs,take it up the road and thrash the tits off it,
going to the RD rally with blackhat,we stopped for fuel,left the fuel station and blackhat was behind on his h2,looked in my mirror and saw smoke and thought,he is giving it some stick,smoke was white and getting worse,looked in the mirror then no blachat!!
we dumped the fuel,took a bit of time to restart on fresh fuel,the bike stank and smoked all the way from Berwick to Durham.the back of the bike was minging of diesel but very clean!!!!

GOOD NEWS!

All running well and correct now. HUGE THANK YOU to Dave (Big H) for taking the time to drive for over an hour to bring tools, spark plugs, strobe light and even a replacement KZ750 kick-start lever and a whole lot of experience, advice and practical help. It's this sort of culture that makes this club worth being a part of and I hope I can pay it back some day to others.

The original problem was obviously diesel (still can't believe I did this ) but the plugs I had were ruined and as soon as we fitted a new set the bike ran OK if very, very smoky. A quick blast up the road and the smoke had disappeared. Dave checked and reset the timing (which was out a bit) and now the bike idles cleaner and hopefully all is well with no permanent damage to anything other than my pride.

So now I'm on for the Southern Rally again (although the weather tomorrow looks terrible) but the fact that my bike is OK again I don't care, I'd happily ride around all weekend in the rain just to enjoy being on a healthy engine again. Ha ha.

ah thought I recognised the back of the head well done David Big H

Well done everyone.

doc

Glad it worked out all right in the end and well done for the hands up about the diesel - a lot of people would not have admitted that one and now the rest of us know what we need to do if ever it happens to them....

Bic, who is your insurance with that only has a 20 mile recovery?
Some one else will be caught out by this small print,

I had a similar issue when someone bought me a pint of beer but it was the wrong type. This stuff was lager. I struggled to run cleanly for a while but once proper beer was put in the tank, normal service was resumed, no damage done!

My insurance company is MCE insurance - the one with the guy with the big helmet and smily face yours see at race meetings and in their advertising.

Avoid them. Carol Nash no restriction.
PM me your number Dave.