AraiPnai's Bike Update - FINALLY! - AUG 2009
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:50 am
sooooooooooo! after over a year of sleeping... it is the fuel pump.. who referred that other one to me? cuz it was bunk.. or something.. but it wasn't working... all good tho, cuz it wasn't hella expensive anyway to me..
(i found a very mechanically / automotively / motorcycle'ly inclined friend of mine.. )
so we changed out the battery... brand new, fully charged - power to bike = yes (yay)
fire it up - still just cranking...
check fuel pumps, both the original and the semi-new one i was instructed to purchase.. neither are good..
after taking apart the tank and stuff off the bike sorta, we poured some fuel directly into the.. uhh.. carbs? (took the airbox off the engine part, so that thing w/ the 4 holes w/ the door thingies opening and closing - god i'm being such a girl here - sorry!) tried to start it , and *shivers in ecstatic joy* i heard my bike grumble for the first time in over a year... OMG IT LIVES!!!!
result = yes it is fuel starved, and it is definitely the fuel pump b/c there is power in the plug the pump gets power from, and there is fuel coming through the intake tube, but nothing comes through the outlet tube..
so.... here i go again fuel pump hunting.. after all this time, i think imma just suck it up and buy a dam new many hundred dollah pump.. bah hamboogars! >.<
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in other news, i have my first track day in a month.. if the fzr is not up by then, i get to track an r6.. excited? yes.. scared? yes.. anxious? yes.. nervous? yes.. @.@ *sigh* private track day w/ friends at least..

so we changed out the battery... brand new, fully charged - power to bike = yes (yay)
fire it up - still just cranking...

check fuel pumps, both the original and the semi-new one i was instructed to purchase.. neither are good..

after taking apart the tank and stuff off the bike sorta, we poured some fuel directly into the.. uhh.. carbs? (took the airbox off the engine part, so that thing w/ the 4 holes w/ the door thingies opening and closing - god i'm being such a girl here - sorry!) tried to start it , and *shivers in ecstatic joy* i heard my bike grumble for the first time in over a year... OMG IT LIVES!!!!

result = yes it is fuel starved, and it is definitely the fuel pump b/c there is power in the plug the pump gets power from, and there is fuel coming through the intake tube, but nothing comes through the outlet tube..
so.... here i go again fuel pump hunting.. after all this time, i think imma just suck it up and buy a dam new many hundred dollah pump.. bah hamboogars! >.<





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in other news, i have my first track day in a month.. if the fzr is not up by then, i get to track an r6.. excited? yes.. scared? yes.. anxious? yes.. nervous? yes.. @.@ *sigh* private track day w/ friends at least..