Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines… If You Can.
It's been a while since work began on the CBR, but we got around to messing about with it some more.
After changing the forks out, we'd been trying to (unsuccessfully) start the engine. This meant one very drained (and then recharged) battery, lots of huffing and puffing as we pushed the bike around the garage and quite a bit of swearing and kicking as she failed to fire.
What we should have done was turn the fuel tap off during storage and drain the carbies when she was just sitting around. Unfortunately, in our sheer laziness we didn't, and it turns out we would've had to pull the carbies in order to drain them anyway as the drain screws for the centre two carbies face each other with no way to get a screwdriver in there. Lesson learnt.
So after several failed attempts at getting her to fire (and with a few backfires and the heavy smell of petrol in the garage), we pulled the tank, airbox and carbies to have a look at the jets. Blocked. Full of crap. I took my time with them. Sliders were a bit gunky, and it was apparent that no one had pulled the carbies in a long time.
What was perhaps worrying for me was the presence of a random hose which was connected to another random box (about the size of two matchboxes) and then went, well, nowhere. I looked at it wondering what the hell sort of purpose it could serve.
Turning the engine over a bit to get some vacuum to refill the carbies with fuel sent the battery almost to death, so cutting our losses, we push started it and on the second or third push, she finally coughed back to life. She's pulling a bit to the right, although that may be my imagination since there was no right rear set, and she's running a bit rough. A proper carb balance will need to be done eventually and an oil change is definitely required before she gets any higher revs.
After quite a few weeks, we've reached the next milestone in getting her back on the road. With a bit of care, hopefully that'll be soon!
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