Flipped my sh!t
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Flipped my ****
ok, so I flipped my bike completely upside down and let it sit for a few miutes (doont ask why) and now it aint starting. It's not cranking or anything .... I thought spark plugs, but it would atleast turn, it's not doing anything. All lights come on, but it's aint movin??????????????????????? 2001 gsxr 750
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From: Fairfax Va
The tip over switch should reset it self. It is right by your battery box. All it is is a brass ring that makes contact when the bike tips over. I put two tie wraps on either side to keep it from connecting. Look in your airbox to make sure all your oil didnt drain up into everything. Tony just did the same thing last week and the oil fauled up his plugs.
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Dude, did you pull it apart. I can tell you exactly what happend. It is totally presure locked. It took all the engine oil and pumped it to the top end untill the presure locked it. Think of it in simple terms. Your engine was running upside down. You have to pull it apart and get the oil out of the top end. I am sure it is up in the trottle bodies/ Floats. I know that it's FI so it doesn't have the floats but it is a similar cavity. Open the trottle up with the air box and tank off and look in there for your self. I have done this before believe me. You need to suck it out of there and then used compressed air to dry it out and get out the rest. Clean your plugs and tie it to the back of a car and get them to pull you down the street. Make sure you replace the oil and roll start that bitch. It aint going to be easy. I had it happen to my old yzf750 and on my gsxr 1k. Sad to say I like to park that sometimes too............
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crazy1 is exactly right. That is what happens when you let a bike sit completely upside down. My friend flipped a stoppie on his f4i last year and it hydralocked the engine. We ended up pulling the tank, pulling the airbox and pulling the sparkplugs to clean all the oil out. To get the oil out of the cylinders, go to the grocery store and get one of those big syringes used for injecting juice or whatever into turkeys, get a small rubber hose to fit on the end of it and use that to suck all the oil out of the cylinders through the sparkplug holes. when ya let the bikes sit upside down like that, oil runs through that hose that goes from the crankcase into the airbox and then it runs down through the tbodies into the cylinders when you turn it right side up again. Make sure you dont get one of those turkey baster things with the rubber bubble thing on the end, they make big syringes, use those. It works great. When you get all the oil out of the cylinders, crank it and let it run for a while. It will smoke like a bitch for 20 minutes or so. Change your sparkplugs after that and you are good to go.
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Like I said. Classic presure/hydro lock up. just pul it apart and get it all dried up like I told you on the last post on how you found a new way to park that fine piece of machinery. It will run dont sweat that ****.
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Re: Flipped my ****
when i did that with my 636, i just took everything off to get to the sparkplugs, took those out and bumped it over, all the oil will shoot out and you will have a mess, but the bike should be good after that.
