Free R1!

Bad news, car no worky...

Car no worky?

https://lemon-manuals.la/

Sorry that doesn't cover motorcycles, but good luck with your car..

OBD fault logs points to an injector issue, I'll try some cleaner tomorrow. For now, no car, had to go get the bread and milk on a bike...

Should've gotten a Japanese car, too!

Friend of mine is a run from the cops type he ran a few to many times and was chased a lot because they could see and hear a yellow R1 for miles, anyway he blew the head gasket while flatout and then it was parked. it's got a ohlins damper and a penske rear shock.

Pretty sure the engine is toast, but hey maybe son number one could take it appart for fun, I can take a fair few bit off it and get a spare yzf750 running again, or not it was free..

Bonus pic!

Nothing wrong with french diesels! (It's a PSA 1.6 diesel engine, mucho common)

Pity about the Amercian bits designed in England

Take apart and remove the injectors, get a spray bottle of fuel injector cleaner and insert it into the intake of the injector, then wire a 12v batter to the two terminals to run the injector ... run it for about 20 seconds like this to completely clean the unit ... do the same for all the other injectors then reinstall

I did this work with my 1998 BMW K1200RS without any special tools because I couldn't get them in time and it worked just fine ... just be careful with disassembly and reassembly ... about a year later, I bought an actual injector cleaner kit to do the work on other vehicles.

Plenty of guides on how to do a simple DIY method without any special tools

https://youtu.be/rUUgR94drxg

Or you could buy a ready made fuel injector cleaning kit for about $50 CAD ($35USD or 30EURO)

Surely that wouldn't work with a diesel injector?

Anyway cars back home now, a friend of a friend had the time and expertise to sort it, and now in return we gotta sort out his new toy, an xt500, I predict lots of cardio induced kickstarting.