well wel how should i start i am the owner of a 89 cbr600 i traded it to a guy today for a fourwheeler he had then he called and told me the engine was locked up he brought it back to me i pulled the dipstick and the oil was grey kind of smells like gas i didnt try to turn it over cause the battery isnt any good in it i can look in the carbs from the top and see they are full of crud the guy said when he got it to his house everything was froze wide open and it must have rained and filled the cylinders full of water i figure ill just pull the engine out the frame pull the heads off and see what is going on so i pulled i think all of the bolts out the engine came down a liittle but i still have to unhook the clutch cable,coolant lines and the throttle cable if anybody has any tips to make this easier for me thats would be awesome i have never worked on a bike before and i will more than likley not be putting the engine back on the bike cause i dont have a title for it so if i am able to fix it i will more than likley put the engine on a quad if i need to overhaul it can you fine people point me in the direction of a full overhaul kit for the engine? thanks in advance and sorry i dont use much puncuation

 

Rather than rain getting in, it sounds to me more like a blown head gasket. Although the same sort of crud in the carbs?. You have to block under the engine so you can undo retaining bolts & cables. Get a copy of the workshop manual (do a search on the site) which will make it a lot easier in do the work & identifying parts. Good luck.

 

i thought about the blown headgasket too but the radiator is full the crud in the carb looks like rust could it have been crud that came out of the crud filled tank?i know the bike was out in the rain here at my house but it ran last time i tryed to start it oh i also had a different tank on it from a lawnmower cause of the crud filled tank and i have a floor jack under the motor i dont have any kind of bike lift and it is on the center stand btw i have never seen oil turn grey with water in it and i checked the oil when i first got it and after i ran it and the oil was fine i cant say i checked it after the last time i ran it caus ei dont remember and i didnt ever ride it i just had it on the kickstand and revved it up some i dont know ima take the engine out of the bike and yank the head off of it and check it