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2000 kat600 RESURRECTION!! help!?
Hey everyone, thank you for taking a look at my thread first of all and please excuse any noob questions i may ask due to the fact that i am still new to the awesome world of motorcycles!
Im just gonna jump into this madness.
i bought my beautiful blue 2000 kat 600 about a month ago and have spent most of my time since the purchase trying to bring it up to par for riding again. the bike sat for the past SEVEN YEARS and i have decided to devote my extra time to revive her. my first step was an excruciating process of removing a ton of rust from the inside of the gas tank (sat with a half tank and zero additives for those seven years) i used muriatic acid to remove the surface rust once i cleaned out all the gunk. next i used baking soda and distilled water to neutralize the acid and then rinsed it out with denatured alcohol to remove any water left in there. my next step was to coat the inside with a kreem kit which worked great as far as i can tell. i then cleaned the petcock per service manual and cleaned off the fuel gauge as best i could.
next, i changed the oil and filter, adjusted my chain and checked the play on the throttle cable, clutch cable, and brake levers. everything was looking good according to the manual so far. even the fuel filter is looking in great shape( a little yellow tho... is that ok?).
NOW for the moment of truth... i replaced the spark plugs with the suggested ngkr cr9ek that is the standard plug stated by the manual (old ones were black on the end and needed to be tossed) i thought it was interesting though that the plugs in the bike when i got it were ngkr cr9e with only one tip like this / I . but the ones it told me to get were like this / I \ with 2 tips idk any suggestions on this?
anyways...
they work because i bought her a brand new battery charged it, installed, put a gallon of premium in the tank and "attempted to start the bike... NO DICE. use every bit of juice from the batt. tryin to get it to crank. i didnt want to wait on charging it up again so i hooked it up to my car batt. and jumped it with the petcock set to prime (turned back to reserve after it started the first time). after a few tries it started though very reluctantly and keeps dropping down the idle very low and very quickly then shutting off. i messed with the choke and after a while it would only start with half choke and it would stay running for a minute then die again.
im reading up on the carbs 101 & 102 because im sure the needles are probably clogged and im about ready to crack them open but please guys any other ideas to go off of also?
Im just gonna jump into this madness.
i bought my beautiful blue 2000 kat 600 about a month ago and have spent most of my time since the purchase trying to bring it up to par for riding again. the bike sat for the past SEVEN YEARS and i have decided to devote my extra time to revive her. my first step was an excruciating process of removing a ton of rust from the inside of the gas tank (sat with a half tank and zero additives for those seven years) i used muriatic acid to remove the surface rust once i cleaned out all the gunk. next i used baking soda and distilled water to neutralize the acid and then rinsed it out with denatured alcohol to remove any water left in there. my next step was to coat the inside with a kreem kit which worked great as far as i can tell. i then cleaned the petcock per service manual and cleaned off the fuel gauge as best i could.
next, i changed the oil and filter, adjusted my chain and checked the play on the throttle cable, clutch cable, and brake levers. everything was looking good according to the manual so far. even the fuel filter is looking in great shape( a little yellow tho... is that ok?).
NOW for the moment of truth... i replaced the spark plugs with the suggested ngkr cr9ek that is the standard plug stated by the manual (old ones were black on the end and needed to be tossed) i thought it was interesting though that the plugs in the bike when i got it were ngkr cr9e with only one tip like this / I . but the ones it told me to get were like this / I \ with 2 tips idk any suggestions on this?
anyways...
they work because i bought her a brand new battery charged it, installed, put a gallon of premium in the tank and "attempted to start the bike... NO DICE. use every bit of juice from the batt. tryin to get it to crank. i didnt want to wait on charging it up again so i hooked it up to my car batt. and jumped it with the petcock set to prime (turned back to reserve after it started the first time). after a few tries it started though very reluctantly and keeps dropping down the idle very low and very quickly then shutting off. i messed with the choke and after a while it would only start with half choke and it would stay running for a minute then die again.
im reading up on the carbs 101 & 102 because im sure the needles are probably clogged and im about ready to crack them open but please guys any other ideas to go off of also?
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