Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com.
Today I'm going to show you how to winterize our 2008 Honda CBR600 RR.
Pretty simple process, but it's really important.
I know it's the end of the season, you don't want to put her away, but you better do it
the correct way if you want her to start back up in the spring.
So let me go grab some gas and I'll show you how to get it done.
Alright guys, there's only a couple of areas of concern that we really need to focus in
on.
One is being the fuel system.
It's very important to make sure the tank is completely full and if you've got access
to non-ethanol fuel, even the better, because it's stands a lot better chance of not doing
what they call phase separation.
It actually cuts it into different stratas.
So, to keep that from happening use non-ethanol fuel and we're also going to be putting in
some of this stabilizer.
After that, we're going to go ahead and put a battery tender on the battery itself so
that it stays all the way charged up for the rest of the winter.
That way it'll be fresh and ready to go in the spring.
Last, I'd like to talk about the tires and the tire pressure and what we need to do about
that.
So, let's go ahead and fill her up and put in some stabilizer.
The reason we want to have it completely full of fuel is I know it's a closed system, but
if you don't have it completely full what will happen if there's any condensation inside
the tank it'll actually collect on the walls and rust.
And that should do it.
Next we're going to put in some fuel stabilizer.
This is roughly a five-gallon tank, so that only takes on ounce because this stuff is
pretty concentrated and it will actually keep you in storage for 12 months so that should
easily get you through the off-season.
Honda's nice enough to give you a little scale on the side.
The problem is this is a full bottle, so how am I going to know what is an ounce up top.
Well, let me show you a little life hack.
You got a little solo cup laying around the house somewhere?
Well, if you notice these different lines, they're there for more than just holding or
giving it a little more structure.
That bottom line represents one ounce.
The second one up there is five ounces, the one right there is 12.
So all we need to do is fill it up to that first mark.
Right there.
Alright, so let's go ahead and get her dumped in there.
My advice to you: throw away this cup now.
Alright, there's two ways you can do this.
You can take her out for one last ride just to get everything mixed up in there and drawn
into the system.
I'm just going to crank it up, let it idle for a few minutes, maybe shake it up some,
just to get it pulled into the system.
Alright, we let it run for three or four minutes and that should be enough to get it all the
way down to the injectors.
So, the fuel system should be taken care of now.
Next, let's go ahead and get this seat off and we'll go ahead and get that battery tender
installed.
Pretty simple to get to, just a couple of 5mm bolts-- Allens.
Alright, with this little kit there are a couple of different ways we can do this.
You've got a couple of different options to connect to the battery.
One, just have a couple of alligator clips, which I don't want to use.
So the way we're going to do it is put on this little harness that will actually stay
on the bike.
Really simple to do.
all we're going to do is just pull up the terminals and get the positive and the negative
right there.
Your positive, that's the one with the fuse on it-- so make sure you get that correct.
Alright, this particular machine already had a connection made at the battery.
What this one was for is this particular machine has heated grips.
It looks very similar to what we're putting on.
The bolts should be able to handle one more terminal over it.
Alright, get these snugged back down.
If you didn't have a battery tender on here, and the battery voltage goes under 12 volts,
it'll actually sulfate and that will kill the battery.
It can actually sulfate in, shoot, less than a month so this is definitely worth doing.
What I want to do here so I don't have to pull the seat off every time, is I'm going
to route it down, out the side.
If I put it up under here, like I said I don't have to pull the tank off.
All I want to do if find a little bracket here to zip tie it to.
Now with that in place it'll make it really easy to connect to it and we won't even have
to pull the seat off.
Just go under here, flip it down, take off this little protective cover.
This only plugs in one way.
Plug that in and then off she goes.
Now it's pretty much set up to keep the battery in a usable condition for the whole winter.
The only other thing I want to bring up or recommend if you've got the means.
Go ahead and get a set of front and rear bike stands because if you get it up in the air
that'll keep the tires from getting a flat spot from sitting too long you know.
Several months on a hard concrete floor?
Yeah, you're gonna get a flat spot.
Lifting it up in the air will eliminate that possibility.
Well, like I said that pretty much wraps it up.
If you have any questions or comments just leave them in the section below and I'll do
my best to answer it.
If you need any of the parts or equipment that I used on this machine come see us at
partzilla.com and we can get you taken care of.
And until next time, I just want to say thanks for watching.