Prepping a bike for long-term storage.

There is a product called sea foam, that cam be sprayed into a motor's cylinder.

Before I go on, I'm slightly confused, you say FI a couple of times then mention a carb. Is it FI or a carbbed bike?

Dale

Hey Hair,

They don't have a float bowl per se, they have a fuel rail. As far as the fuel system goes, the worst thing that I think could happen would be to have water sitting in the area around the fuel pump, thus causing parts to possibly rust. I would think either running some fuel system water remover through the bike or draining the tank to make sure that there is no water down there would be good. However, most fuels today have some sort of alcohol in them so that should hold the water in suspension.

There was some product I saw advertised the other day in Dirt bike or Dirt rider- something with the word star in it, that was supposed to help any water held in suspension to stay that way. And maybe even one of those fuel storage additives like stabilaid, after adding it make sure that you run the bike so it get's up into the injection system. You might even ask http://www.mrinjector.us/. I called him after Viking posted about the hard starting, really cool guy, he probably has some good suggestions about long term storage of injection systems.

Beyond that, I would store the bike with a full tank of fuel, this will keep the tank from "breathing" through the tank vent as the ambient temperature rises and falls.

As I mentioned before, you could spray some kind of oil in the top end through the plug hole, maybe marvel mystery oil or some like that, and turn the motor over a few times by putting it in 6th gear and spinning it over by hand to make sure it's spread around. I'd also leave it on TDC on the compression stroke so the valves are shut, and the valve springs are not under tension.

Stick a desicant bag in the muffler and plug it off. As well, you may want to plug off the crank case vent in the air box to keep any water vapor from entering the crank case that way.

Get the bike good and hot and change the oil, so that you know that you don't have any moisture in the oil.

Leave it on a battery tender.

Maybe even replace the coolant with pure antifreeze so that no water is present in the cooling system while it sits.

You are welcome sir,

You know, instead of doing all of that work to store it like that, it might be easier to just keep it on a tender and take it out once a month for a casual ride. You know get everything good a hot, and then just put it back in the shed with a tender on it. Then once the bike cools off just put a little descant breather on the fuel tank vent line to trap any moisture, when the tank breathes, and of course keep stabil aid in the fuel.

One reason I am suggesting this, is the fork and shock seals, they get stiff from non use and I don't know of any way to protect them long term, other than exercising them.

Even though I had a great up bringing with my dad taking me hunting and fishing all summer long, , I am envious of your gift to your son, he is a lucky boy!!!

Dale