a rule of thumb to jump start a bike.....hook it up to the car....but leave the car off....NEVER hook the car up to a bike with the car running.....way too many amps will fry the battery and other things....

i would say depending on how mechanically inclined you are, you could do it yourself, however, if you can't even be creative enough to think of a way to get the bike into the back of your truck, you may want someone else helping/or doing the work.

seriously though you can do it. jsut ask lots of questions.

 

personally i'd start with the FPR. They're all junk. everyone in here shoud replace theirs asap! Nah just kiddin... maybe. Buta crapped out FPR would kill a bike much like you describled in your first post. Fuel-Hydrolocked engine would make it hard to crank as well.

So I change my vote from R/R to FPR since you mentioned the strong fuel smell. 50 bucks on Ron Ayers.

 

hayden, is pretty much correct about how to jump start a bike. you connect the bike's battery to the car's battery but you dont start the car.

also, to answer your question about the fuses. you could have easily damaged your stator, wiring or more electrical components when the bike was connected to a charging car battery. its called a “slow burn�, you can pull just the right amount of current to begin reaching or surpassing the tolerance(s) of the electrical components without blowing the fuses. since the bike was not in motion and the fans were not on the whole time, the bike could have easily cooked(over heat) something.

primarily; why do you think that a bike that is rarely used and has low mileage should not encounter problems? things crap out all the time! to prove just that, ask yourself the same question that you posed to us. how does water get inside the gas tank? crappy gas, the tank is not sealed well, air filter not present, faulty component(s) who knows?

if it’s a FPR issue then I don’t know how much cleaners could do. if the injectors are clogs then it might help out but if the bike is having fuel pump issue or computer is not responding correctly then it a whole different on set of problem. is it not?

in conclusion; I would suggest that you push start the bike. if the bike is not able to run after its forced cranked then it does have some problem that is not that obvious or at least by the description that you gave us. take the bike to a shop!
from the begining I would have said that it sounded like the plugs are going bad but after the car boost business, its very hard to say what the bike issues are.
good luck.

 

I've tried multiple times to post a reply here and let you know what happened. Every time I tried I got some weird error. I don't remember now because I simply gave up. I couldn't even post the error. Hopefully this posts:

Turns out that it was simply bad gas. I didn't have to make any of the fixes we talked about in this thread. I finally got it started the next day, ran all of the gas out, filled up again and it has been running like a top since. I really appreciate everyone's replies here. Please let me know if I can repay the great advice.

 

After replacing my regulator/rectifier and fuel pressure regulator, I pulled a similar move. My bike was dead so I foolishly hooked my friends car up without removing the battery and ran his engine. The bike's engine fired and ran very rich for a few minutes then died. I left the bike hooked up the car and ran it for 20 minutes which was obviously the dumbest thing I could have done. The starter would crank but the engine would not catch. Here's my question: Obviously I could have fried major parts of my electrical system BUT does the engine not catching when my starter is cranking mean I still have a fuel system problem? Can the engine run on battery power alone or is the stator required to be funtional to run the fuel pump, injectors, or spark plugs? Secondly, Many folks have commented that several components can be damaged by charging the bike as such. None of my fuses are blown so I imagine it's a primary part like the stator or regulator rectifier. My lights still work and the starter cranks when the battery is charged. I am going to buy the equipment to troubleshoot the stator but I'm mostly curious if anyone thinks my fuel system could have deeper problems than the FPR I replaced. The previous symptoms of the bike were identical to those described by others for bad FPRs and Regulator Rectifiers. BTW, the bike is the same, 2001 cbr600f4i

 

I smell a r/r problem...