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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1313854412 Message started by sg208 on 08/20/11 at 08:33:32 |
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Title: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by sg208 on 08/20/11 at 08:33:32 I have a 2008 Suzuki S40 but hasn't ridden or even turning it on since fall 2009. Due to my wife's motorcycle brutal accident that time, I stopped riding it ever since. I still had a full tank of gas in it and the battery is dead. It was on until early spring 2010 but dead completely after that and it's been sitting in my garage ever since. Beside getting a new battery, is there any other things I should take care as well? I don't know much about motorcycle but I think I can manage. I appreciate everyone's advise and suggestion :) |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Serowbot on 08/20/11 at 08:50:13 Replace battery,... change oil, drain and replace gas, air up tires... Pull spark plug and squirt a teaspoon of oil in the hole... replace the plug. Switch the petcock to prime, and see if it will start... If it don't,... you'll need to take the carb apart and clean all the jets and passages... |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by sg208 on 08/20/11 at 09:06:10 right on man, thx for the help. I'll give it a shot. |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Demin on 08/20/11 at 09:23:57 That's the great thing about these bikes.SIMPLE! So easy a caveman could do it. Sorry,couldn't resist. ;D |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Boofer on 08/20/11 at 10:35:05 3026312C34212C37430 wrote:
Serow, I appreciate your knowledge, and I usually follow it to the letter. But how can you get a teaspoon to "squirt" oil? (Please, 100 words or less.) ;D |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Serowbot on 08/20/11 at 10:47:25 Squirt,.. squirt,.. squirt... (teaspoon is a quantity,... not a delivery method)... Guess I should'a explained that... :-?... http://dogwoodandpoppy.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/oilcan.jpg http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/abeyer/abeyer0609/abeyer060900084/523584-oil-can.jpg http://www.ministeam.com/acatalog/maoc.gif The object is to re-coat the cylinder walls,... so try get it to the edges... You can also tilt the bike back and forth... maybe let the starter crank a couple of times to move the oil around... ;)... If you don't have a can,... you could always put it in your mouth, and blow it out a straw... ;D ;D ;D.... |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Boofer on 08/20/11 at 10:58:33 I have a can. Now, what brand of oil should I use??? ;D |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Oldfeller on 08/20/11 at 11:17:14 Only one oil can bring the dead back to life -- KLOTZ |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by RidgeRunner13 on 08/20/11 at 11:20:54 Marvel Mystery Oil----& put the plug in & spin it over with the plug wire off to distribute it.-----It's even RED like :o......What is that oil? ::) ::) If you don't have Marvel, ATF works also. 8-) |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Gyrobob on 08/20/11 at 11:21:13 Just stick the red plastic straw on a WD-40 can down in the spark plug hole, and crank the motor over a few revs while spraying the WD-40 into the cylinder. |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Gyrobob on 08/20/11 at 11:30:13 300B06050730170C0C07105351620 wrote:
Marvel oil is just kerosene with some benzene, napthene, mineral spirits, dye, and perfume (oil of wintergreen) in it. It's just an old-style solvent. It was invented nearly a century ago when oil and gas refining was very inconsistent, and there actually was a need for a solvent like this to clean things out. Its lubricity is poor -- it is not a very good OIL. It will have some degreasing/cleaning effect, but nowhere near as effective as modern cleaners. It's main advantage is for Turtle Wax,.. the owners of the Marvel company. The stuff is really cheap to make and simply due to tradition, still sells reasonably well. |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Serowbot on 08/20/11 at 11:34:56 536D667B767B76140 wrote:
...but it's so much prettier than Seafoam,... and a cooler name, too... ;)... |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Gyrobob on 08/20/11 at 11:46:43 4452455840555843370 wrote:
...but it's so much prettier than Seafoam,... and a cooler name, too... ;)... [/quote] So when you buy your seafoam, get it at Walmart so you can go to the grocery section and buy some food coloring. ;D :D ;) ::) :P :) |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by bill67 on 08/20/11 at 15:58:08 0A2921232029292037450 wrote:
+1 |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Boofer on 08/20/11 at 18:27:51 Hey, hey! I'm sorry I brought up the oil question, even as a joke. In case the owner doesn't know, a little oil in the cylinder helps raise compression as well as offering a little lubrication. |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Oldfeller on 08/21/11 at 03:10:28 Now he says he's sorry. ;D Boofer, what do you call the man who throws bucketfuls of bloody fish chunks into the water right off a fancy Hamptons resort hotel's beach when the surf is crowded with tourists? (and then watches with binoculars, don't forget the binoculars) |
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Title: Re: Need help bringing my 2008 S40 back to LIVE Post by Gyrobob on 08/21/11 at 05:56:34 002D2D242730420 wrote:
Correct. Assuming you are going to try to get it started without taking it apart and tidying things up first, then getting some lubricant in there to before metal starts scraping against metal is mandatory. Squirting in WD-40 or some equivalent is a good idea because (as opposed to Marvel Mystery S**t) WD-40 is lube as well as a cleaner. Also, with WD-40 types of pressurized cans, you can spray it around all over place inside the cylinder. I'd also turn the engine over veeeerrrrrryyyy slowly for several revolutions to spread the oil around some before actually cranking it over. Then!,..... when you do hit the starter button, have the red straw down in the spark plug hole spraying the inside of the cylinder as the piston moves up and down. Do this for a few seconds. Put the spark plug back in and ride off into the sunset. |
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