THE GREAT B1H RESURECTION!!!

[Carbon_ZX6R]

mot entirely how but somehow the outside of the tank does not conduct I placed the negative on the tank and nothing  ive now put it on the bolt of the mount at the top of the tank(bit that bolts it to frame) put the positive electrode (multi metre) in the water and the other on the tank and there seems to be a tiny current ( and a couple of very small bubbles have appeared

[terry950sm]

Any pictures of the re-build/ re-fresh

[Carbon_ZX6R]

Any pictures of the re-build/ re-fresh

A few I'll put up later , the fucking sump bolt just sheered off..... Managed to get it out luckily cheap magnetic one by the looks

[Carbon_ZX6R]

here are some pictures of the bike during the rebuild , didn't take many as ive been to busy doing!

this is how she was when I took the bike out of storage


here is the bike after I decided to get off my arse


this is how it stands at the moment


and this is the inside of the tank after the electrolysis , its not perfect but its a lot better, the photo is showing the bad bit

[Carbon_ZX6R]

The oils been draining for 48 hours I'm debating if I should  even flush it with car oil , there was no clumps what so ever and the oil was still brown .... And I'm not sure if the car oil would cause the clutch to slip or not...

[Carbon_ZX6R]

I'm not happy with the tank I've taken the pump apart and rinsed the filter which is tea bag coloured now was quite a bit of rust in the sump attacked that with a wire brush , the tank rinses through clear now and alot of what looks like rust is crystallized petrol ,am I right in thinking as it's fuel injected I cant splice in an extra filter due to the pressure reduction caused by the filter, also am I correct in assuming that if some rust did make it past the pump filter it would potentially just clog the injectors as apposed to making it into the combustion chamber?

[Lord Danoir the first]

New tank time love....... you're right in that the larger particles will get held back by both the filter and then the injectors, but before you know it, it'll be running like a bag of shite and you'll have killed your injectors...... and you'll end up doing it again.

What's more of an issue is the microscopic debris that WILL make it through to the combustion chamber. High revving engines don't cope well at all and the valves and seats tend to be quite soft when bombarded with small particles at high frequency....... and let's not forget the nature of the debris..... it's metal.

Do yourself a favour..... you dug deep for that, frankly, pointless carbon bling..... you owe it to the bike to sort this before you kill it and it ends up back in your shed or on ebay.

[Carbon_ZX6R]

Well this presents a problem I looked for a new tank and can't source even a reasonable condition one , I know there are other ways of deducting the tank I.e acid based chemicals and I have seen some guides online that have seen the most rusted tanks your likely to see come up spotless inside but then I have the trouble of recoating  the tank inside ,desposing of the acid without spilling it or getting it on the perfect paint , I'd probably chance it if I wasn't planning on keeping the bike but I don't want to sell it , the fuel pump will need some work and possibly replacing unless I can remove all the rusted parts and deep clean them , which I might be able too ,I might have to get a quote from a specialist to do the tank as your quite right Dan and it was my thinking as well that it could be fine tomorrow , next week or even for a year but eventually it's going to fuck it up , I'm going to have to put the new oil in and just leave it for a bit as I don't like the idea of leaving the engine dry

[Carbon_ZX6R]

Think I need to give the electrolysis another go as the reaction was very weak and only lasted couple hours I was told a cap of soda crystals per litre I'm thinking that may have been wrong

[Jonesy]

Think I need to give the electrolysis another go as the reaction was very weak and only lasted couple hours I was told a cap of soda crystals per litre I'm thinking that may have been wrong

Is the hair growing back already?

[Carbon_ZX6R]

Not quite sure what you mean.  I haven't quite pulled it out from frustration yet

[Jonesy]

Electrolysis for Hair Removal 

[Carbon_ZX6R]

Electrolysis for Hair Removal 

Urrrgh walked into that one!

[Carbon_ZX6R]

With regards to the oil should I leave it dry or should I just put the oil and new filter in? But be unable to start it at the moment?

[Green_Ninja]

May as well put the oil and filter in to be honest one less thing to forget to do later