Is this some kind of joke? I'm about the kick the damn bike over.

2000 CBR600F4 pulled out of storage.

1. Cleaned the carbs. Pulled them off, opened up all the bowls sprayed clean inside and sprayed through. Cleaned the needle. No clogs, looks clean.

2. New plugs. Old plugs were black and oily at the bottom.

3. Bike fires up in fully choke only.Sits at about a K.

Anytime I give gas or drop it into gear, the bike just dies. If I try to take the choke off the bike dies. I'm going nuts trying to figure what the problem is.

 

Also dumped the old gas. The idle screw is set to the lowest setting, if it is tightened up to raise the idle--the bike won't start. Help.

 

sexy, welcome to the forum and don't kick the bike.

Sounds like the jets and orneedles might beout of adjustment.

Have you worked on the carbs for this bike before?
Have you messed withthe pilot screw?
Does this bike have a jet kit?
Do you have a manual for the bike?
Did you have any extra pieces laying around when you were done? haha j/k
You might also have a bad kickstand switch.

 

Sounds like the jets and orneedles might beout of adjustment.

Have you worked on the carbs for this bike before?

nope.

Have you messed withthe pilot screw?

nope.

Does this bike have a jet kit?

nope--all stock.

Do you have a manual for the bike?

yup.

Did you have any extra pieces laying around when you were done? haha j/k

only my pieces of my sanity.

You might also have a bad kickstand switch.

Bike starts with the kickstart up or down.

I took the carbs off. Opened up the bowls. Cleaned with carb cleaner--didn't make any adjustments. Opening vaccuum chamber cover -- cleaned needle. Sprayed through the main jet. Cleaned float chamber. Thx for the welcome.

 

Could it be the idle jet that's causing this? I didn't clean it.

 

sounds like you need some good advice here is you scooter runnin right yet or you still havin trouble hit me back and let me know i had a black and orange 2000 f4 and i know that bike from top to bottom

 

I don't have experiance with F4 carbs, but I do with Katana carbs. I had a Kantana and my friend has one, only difference between ours was his carbs needed to by synced.....My bike started up with choke but it only needed to be on for 30 sec or so before i had to turn the choke down or fully off. His is on the other hand needed full choke, too a a good 5 seconds longer to start and needed a LONG time on full choke to warm up before you could take the choke off. If you too the choke off too soon, his bike would want to die.....it might be something you may want to look at on your bike....again, I really don't know too much about it, but I am just relaying my personal experiance.

 

Here is a good write up on carb cleaning 2000 F4.
It might help you out. https://cbrforum.com/m_311016/tm.htm

 

I had the same problem with my F2. The only problem I had with the write up, above, is that there was NO details on cleaning out the jets. Took me 3 tries to get them all cleared out properly before it would work again. Try using Seafoam. MANY people on this forum swear by it. Seems to clean up things really well. Just add the prescribed amount in the gas (I let mine sit with it a little).

 

Actually there maybe is a little zen involved with working on a bike. And it will all work itself out.

So, the bike starts up no problem ON FULL CHOKE. The thing will run forever on full choke at about a G. Everytime I turn the choke downa little bit, it starts to fade away. So I remember I had about 2 gallons of gas, mix of 87 and 91. I dumped about 4 oz of Seafoam I pick up at the local Wal-Mart (where else can you get Seafoam @ 12am). I was temped to go for the 94 cent carb cleaner, but... So I've been running it for about 20 minutes of full choke. I killed it once trying to take the choke off. It was hard to start after that. So I waited about 2 minutes, cranked the gas and fired the bike up--and the engine popped all the way up to 7k...then died. I started it up again...same story...putting along at 1k on full choke. I'll wait a day or two. Maybe the Seafoam will work its magic. Thanks for all your words...if something strike you, drop a line. I'll post again in a day or two.

Zen...zen...be the bike...