KTM Fuel Pump Issues? Or Neglect? 

Not the world we live in anymore. People probably blame fenders for breaking when they loop out these days 🤣

Bummer, sorry to hear.

I do feel like it helped. A lot of people put those Shorai batteries in their bikes too. Total junk. Most of them lose a cell can make the bike hard to start. Put and EKJ or variant fuel controller on it. The things are starving for fuel. I don't have this bike anymore, but I've installed two of them lately made a big difference in one of the bikes and it was a SX with way better fuel mapping that the starving EXC. if you bought the bike used you might check to see where your TPS is. A lot of people mess around with it to detriment. Set it to stock and put the $225 fuel controller on it 👍

@@JohnHowerton137 thanks for the advice. Will try that.

After 8 years of managing a motorcycle shop (KTM Dealer too), I can tell you... there is an endless list of problems that manufacturers don't address (in some cases, decades for Japanese). Nobody is perfect, but rest assured, on the whole, KTM reliability is is among, if not the best.

Without a doubt people neglect their bikes. 700k off-road you easily can! I managed a shop for 8 years. We were the number one KTM dealer in the state. I can tell you right now they had a lot less failures than any other manufacturer... Period. That said, there are issues sometimes. Probably the biggest issue I ever saw was in 2004 the 250SXF had CDI box failures. My friend lost the WORCS Championship because of it. He's actually still jaded, because it probably cost him a career. He's only bought Kawasaki's since, which is kind of hilarious because those things were blowing up like crazy. I think it's a sentimental thing because he rode for Team Green as an amateur. His first Kawi after he jumped off the KTM's lasted about a week 🤣 The parts at dealer cost were $1,100 for that one engine. You can easily pump water out of a tank at a service station. It's happened to my brother's Harley three times. It happened to my Moto Guzzi once. I stopped running 92 Super after that. Sits in the tanks too long, especially when gas prices are high. My friend's dad was buying cheap Safeway gas and had to replace his fuel injectors three times in his truck at about $1500 a whack. Sure saved a lot of money! If you bought your bike second hand, the fuel system can easily be damaged by sitting for long periods of time with old fuel in it. On the KTM 690s, people knock dirt in the tank while pumping gas because they're riding dirty ass bikes all the time and are careless. It's pretty common knowledge if you tighten the chain too much on a KTM you blow the counter shaft seal almost immediately. Not sure if it's a problem on the linkage bikes now, but it is on the PDS suspended bikes. A lot of people ran the chains too tight switching over from Japanese. I guess it was too hard for people read the slack sticker on the swingarm or they peeled it off before riding it. I don't know what to tell you about your slave cylinder. Maybe I did fail? But I've sold at least 600 KTMs, serviced many others, personally owned 8, and have never seen a failed slave cylinder. It's not that common. I haven't seen your bike so I don't know the situation. I can tell you right now after doing this for so long... most of the time it's like a fat diabetic person going to doctor and telling him, "I eat really healthy!" 😒 Doc wasn't born yesterday. There's a reason why I'm a KTM fan boy, and that reason is because they make high-end stuff. I still work on Japanese bikes for people, and I hate almost every minute of it. KTM has the highest customer loyalty of any brand, they've won more championships than any brand by a long shot (even when they were small) and they're the number one off-road brand in the world. They're not always perfect, but they don't make junk. Haters always like to make up stupid crap though... "AER forks suck!" (because he's too stupid to figure out how to set them up). "PDS suspension sucks!" (once again too stupid to set it up). PDS suspension alone has won more world championships than I think all the Japanese with linkage combined. Don't quote that because I'm not up on the stats like I use to be... but it doesn't even matter. I'm sorry your experience hasn't been better, but your experience isn't that common. The squeaky wheel era of social media makes problems seem far more common than they really are.