ZZR600 what've I done now- the on going saga

[Wonko The Sane]

Today, following on from the stuck throttle, I've moved the clips that hold the carb rubbers on and had it ticking over at 8000rpm.

I then slackened off the tickover screw to the point that it dropped off the bike.

Since then I've tightened the clips that was allowing air to bypass the carbs, run the fuel line dry as I'd forgotten to turn the fuel tap back on and now the bike won't start, presumably due to lack of fuel (yes, I did turn the fuel tap back on)

So, what've I done wrong this time?


Still got to fit the speedo cable too.
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[bladerunner]

Can't remember if it's a vacuume tap on the zzr ....do you have on/off/reserve or on/reserve/prime? If its the latter then leave it on prime for a bit to fill the float bowls. If its a non vacuume tap then it does not matter!
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[mysterious_rider]

Wind the idle screw up quite a bit and try that.
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[glenbee]

+for priming it

If the tap i anything like that on a Kawasaki ER5, normal and reserve only feed the carbs when the engine is running as the have a vacuum hose to the tap. If the carbs are completely empty you have to switch the tap to prime for a minute or so to fill the carb float chamber.
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[Wonko The Sane]

I've just looked at the fuel tap, it appears to only have the options of on, res and off, nothing that appears to say prime

Might be worth trying with it on reserve to see if that doubles as prime.
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[jimspeed]

if its an E series it has a fuel pump, stick it 1st gear with the sidestand down , don't touch the clutch and push the starter button, it should just operate the pump (you should hear it click softly a few times then slow down and stop).
make sure that you are on the bike incase the lockouts are not working for the starter motor, this primes the pump and carbs.
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[Wonko The Sane]

It's on the centre stand at the moment, so I'll need to drop it off that and make sure there's plenty of space in-front of me?

I had been trying turning it over on the assumption that might prime it.

Just realised, if I've got it on the centre stand with side stand down, doesn't matter if the lock out fails, just keep clear of the rear wheel?
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[jimspeed]

yea safer on centre stand mate forgot about that lol, as long as the side stand is down it should just fire the pump.
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[Wonko The Sane]

I'm thinking if the bike is up on the centre stand then I don't risk the bike shooting across the back garden due to the microswitch failing.

Will be giving it a go.

How well will my bike charge just on tick over?
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[jeddy11]

Can't be true ^^ or the bike would eventually die when the battery is completely dead..

If you meter the battery when its ticking over the reading should be13 + volts meaning the battery is charging..
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[mysterious_rider]

[johnsmith222]

Fair enough if I'm wrong, but why can doing regular short journeys discharge a battery?

Surely if its always generating more power than it consumes even at idle then a battery should always be at 100%?

(Ignoring things like it getting discharged through sitting up, alarms etc).

Plus, theres the power consumed by turning the starter and the radiator fan to consider if you're sitting it at idle to charge it.

[mysterious_rider]

[Wonko The Sane]

My battery had, before taking the tank off, enough power to kick itself over a couple of times,

However I left the ignition on while working on it with the light on (old bike had no off switch for the light) in order to stop the alarm activating.

meant to turn ignition on then off and leave key in for that purpose but got distracted, now tried to start a few times so low battery.
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