missing key
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missing key
Hi all,
I recently bought a '03 CBR F4i from an insurance auction web site. Bike has no key and locked steering.
I figured I would remove the ignition switch to retrieve key code and get a key cut at the dealer.
After 2 hours of front-end dismantling. I managed to remove two bolts that hold the ignition switch. But there is a metal prong from steering stem protruding into a hole in the ignition switch. So it wobbles but it won't come out. I guess that's why service manual reads remove top bridge first to set it free. But I read someone else's response on removing top bridge and he mentions that if the steering is locked, there is no way you can remove top bridge:
http://www.600rr.net/vb/showthread.php?p=1806905
So, I am STUCK!! [:@]And now I also think to myself, if you lock the steering with
ignition key, how can you ever unlock the steering, even ifyou remove the ignition switch module. Please help, I am going CRAZY here!
Thanks guys!
-Ben-
I recently bought a '03 CBR F4i from an insurance auction web site. Bike has no key and locked steering.
I figured I would remove the ignition switch to retrieve key code and get a key cut at the dealer.
After 2 hours of front-end dismantling. I managed to remove two bolts that hold the ignition switch. But there is a metal prong from steering stem protruding into a hole in the ignition switch. So it wobbles but it won't come out. I guess that's why service manual reads remove top bridge first to set it free. But I read someone else's response on removing top bridge and he mentions that if the steering is locked, there is no way you can remove top bridge:
http://www.600rr.net/vb/showthread.php?p=1806905
So, I am STUCK!! [:@]And now I also think to myself, if you lock the steering with
ignition key, how can you ever unlock the steering, even ifyou remove the ignition switch module. Please help, I am going CRAZY here!
Thanks guys!
-Ben-
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RE: missing key
I'm actually a locksmith apprentice right now... and it's really easy to get a key made for a bike. You don't even need to take the ignition out. There's a patent out for a certain product that can make keys for any bike without taking anything apart. However, a locksmith will most likely charge you a trip charge (50-100 dollars) and to make a key it'd be about 10-25 to make the key, and about 3-4 dollars for the key itself. So overall IF the locksmith were to come to you, you're looking at about 75-130 bucks.