2003 CBR600RR "carb" clean?

Holeshot_Again · 03-29-2005, 11:18 PM

Ever done one? I'm guessing that I need to pull the injectors and squirt some carb cleaner thru them. Been sitting over a year and acts like the classic dirty carb bike. Sure wish I had a service manual for this one!!!

alaska cajun · 03-29-2005, 11:55 PM

Run some fuel additive through it.

Holeshot_Again · 03-29-2005, 11:58 PM

I probably would if it would start!!!

Big Lake? Is that near Palmer? I was the wrench on the AK statewide champion CBX at Palmer in '79

alaska cajun · 03-30-2005, 12:40 AM

Yes it is,about 20 miles north.

So the bike has been sitting there for a year with fuel in it.Before you tear it down(it's tight under there),put some stabill in it and let it sit for a few days.the stabill may loosen things up enough for it to fire.

Holeshot_Again · 03-30-2005, 11:01 PM

It was put away with Sta-Bil. I've got the plugs out and will be heading out for a new set of warmer ones (looks like it was running rich before getting fouled). I would guess that it's been started and run for < 5 minutes too many times. The owner had a crushed ankle and was in a wheel chair for a year. Planning on finding a way to run the fuel pump to purge the tank, change the oil, and then put some 104 in it.....In '79, we were running a "stock" '79 CBX that I cleaned up the ports and did a valve job on. We ran 11.7s at 122 all day and got the BIG trophy plus TV coverage. I was working at Fairbanks Motors Honda. Got to see a for real UFO while I was sitting there with a 35mm around my neck. It was like everything and everyone froze while the flying object meandered through the canyon. It looked like the Diamond P logo, a black, diamond shaped unit with the porous texture of a microphone, spinning on it's axis. That was 25 years ago and I can still see it like it was yesterday. Even got Truspace to model it, but that's too hard. Yeah, the Matanuska "Thunderf#ck" was good, but not THAT good!!!

alaska cajun · 03-31-2005, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Holeshot_Again

It was put away with Sta-Bil. I've got the plugs out and will be heading out for a new set of warmer ones (looks like it was running rich before getting fouled). I would guess that it's been started and run for < 5 minutes too many times. The owner had a crushed ankle and was in a wheel chair for a year. Planning on finding a way to run the fuel pump to purge the tank, change the oil, and then put some 104 in it.....In '79, we were running a "stock" '79 CBX that I cleaned up the ports and did a valve job on. We ran 11.7s at 122 all day and got the BIG trophy plus TV coverage. I was working at Fairbanks Motors Honda. Got to see a for real UFO while I was sitting there with a 35mm around my neck. It was like everything and everyone froze while the flying object meandered through the canyon. It looked like the Diamond P logo, a black, diamond shaped unit with the porous texture of a microphone, spinning on it's axis. That was 25 years ago and I can still see it like it was yesterday. Even got Truspace to model it, but that's too hard. Yeah, the Matanuska "Thunderf#ck" was good, but not THAT good!!!

I havn't seen any UFO's since I've been here(not doubting you though).I spent this winter in Fairbanks and i won't ever do that agin.The people in the Honda shop are pretty cool though.

You should see the Palmer track now.We've got localy owend cars running in the 5's at 250mph.Not to bad for a wilderness track.The old guy that ownes it is trying to come up with the funds to build a 2 mile road course.

Holeshot_Again · 04-08-2005, 07:14 PM

Well, I just got done changing the plugs (old ones were fouled-looking, put in a step hotter ones) and changed out the fuel. No dice. I pulled off one of the fuel lines and it's dry. Inop fuel pump or plugged pickup (can't believe that), or a problem that needs to have the bike hooked up thru the diag port. There wouldn't happen to be a petcock on this somewhere?

I loved the Palmer track when the Top fuelers and Funnies would run, when they'd let off at the big end, the echo would hit all the surrounding mountains and give a super "surround" sound.

I only got to visit Anchorage once, I got to cruise town that night and OH MAN!!! Fully caged and tubbed ProStockers with Lexan windows on the street!!! And that was 1979. I lived in Fairbanks from Feb '79 (60 below when U of F shot their "Barium rocket" into the aurora-borealis, what a show that was) till Sept '79, when the bike season finished up. I had just enough money to buy a ticket to South Bend Indiana, got home to Niles, Michigan with $4 in my pocket!!! And I was making $15 an hour working on Hondas, which was a damn good wage then. South Bend was only paying $7.50 at that time. FINALLY made it to $20 here in 2000, when I ceased the massive inhalation of hydrocarbons and stopped using the green gooey hand cream oozing from nasty smelling carbs. 25 years of that was enough.

alaska cajun · 04-08-2005, 07:26 PM

To my knowlage there's not a petcock on it anywhere but if you click on the "Ron Ayers" link above,they have a microfiche.

If you ever want to come up for a visit,I should be able to hook you up with tickets for less than $500 round trip.

Holeshot_Again · 04-09-2005, 03:47 PM

AhHaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

I specifically asked the bozo if the bike was running OK when they quit riding it, he insisted it was fine. Of course!!! Then how do ya suppose the tip sensor got upside-down? "I guess ya could blame that one on me" he said "it had been dropped before, and we put a new front fairing on it over the winter"

These rich guys just don't get it!!! (City administrator, drives a Viper)

Almost had me pulling my hair out, but I've triumphed again!!!

There was only EVER one bike I can think of that whipped my ass, a VT750 that I'd bet someone had apart and got the HVA shims (or cam timing?) wrong, but of course, they denied that anyone had been inside the engine. It was a beater by then and hardly worth the labor and parts invested so far (carb kits, used vac pistons, fuel sys clean (both tanks crappy), air filter, and tune up). Lots of backfiring, spitting and popping. Had to get it off my lift and move on to a saveable patient.

Really got sick of discardable Jap bikes. Back then they were engineered for 13,000 miles. I can't tell you how many hundreds of Hondas I saw dead at 13k......Dave

alaska cajun · 04-09-2005, 04:58 PM

Cool

Now you can go ride the thing and see what an improvement they have made on the ol Honda.

I'm pushing 24,000 on my RR and i love every second of it.