Back to business - replacing coolant hoses on the ZR 600

I've been away for a while - the oldest son was home from Iraq on leave so I didn't do much with the Arctic Cat.  I spent  some time fine tuning the Phazer so he could ride that while he was home.  Sadly he left for his duty station in Germany, so now I have some time to work on this.   I decided I am going to replace the coolant hoses now, with the engine out, as opposed to dealing with it later.  So stay tuned for that.

Cleaned the throttle bodies

As luck would have it one of my snowmobile mags made a mention of using the Works! Toilet Bowl cleaner on bras carb parts.  I figured why not? and tried it on the throttle bodies for the ZR.  I took an old tooth brush, and squirted some toilet cleaner on to the bristles.  I then quickly ran it over the corroded area and wiped it with a dry, clean cloth.  Bam!  So shiny it almost looked new!    Just to be safe though I did squirt some STP efi cleaner in there and wiped it with another clean cloth in case there was any Works residue left.   I can highly recommend this method, but just be careful handling it around the machine.

Cleaning the throttle body

If anyone actually sees this blog, and can offer some suggestions, please do! I have the throttle body off, and am trying to figure out the best way to clean these.   I have throttle body spray, but some of the corrosion is not coming off, even when using a tooth brush.   I just do not want to pit or scratch any part of it, any more than it is.

Happy New Year!

Not going to do a darn thing today, except sit around and watch movies, or something lazy.  Have a good day!

Throttle Body Cleaning - ZR 600 EFI

I have the throttle body completely removed.  It was not too difficult.  Remove a few cables, and it was done. Especially since I had already removed the feul lines. I am going to remove the fuel injectors next as I imagine they are pretty gummed up after all this time.  Then I will get down to cleaning.

Happy Holidays

Well thanks to the holiday I haven't done anything.   Been riding the phaze a bit...Seafoam has helped clean some gunk out of the carbs and make it run a bit cleaner, but it dies as low-end.  Either the pilot jets, or even the pulse line.....We will find out tomorrow as things get back to normal, and hopefully back to the cat on Wednesday,

Wednesday 12/23/2009 - Project Arctic Cat / Yamaha Phazer

Whew...I managed to get the Phazer to where it now has spark when it should.   Now I have to figure out why there is no fuel.   The fuel pump, I believe, on these machines are vacuum driven, so there should not be any electric involved.  I am surmising then that the vermin chewed through one of these hoses.