Popping the Clutch

for some reason my bike keeps stalling and the battery is dead when i try to start. this happened on the way to work today. i have been told that i can pop the clutch, but i dont know how to do this. And is it possible to pop the clutch with a completely dead battery? can someone please let me know how to do this. thanks in advance.

Hope this helps http://www.cbrforum.com/m_74288/mpage_1/key_push%252Cstart/tm.htm#74476

thanks mga_oden, i was trying to pop it earlier by rolling in nuetral and shifting into 2nd without the clutch. didnt seem to work. i will give this a try here at lunch, god i hope it works, otherwise i have to take off my side covers and seat to jump the battery. thanks again.

Not sure if you got it yet but that happened to me a while back when i bought my bike and all i did was get a buddy to push the bike with me on it... I was in second with the clutch in and i got up to maybe 5-7 mph and popped the clutch and gave it gas, started right up...

I have had to do it before when my battery went dead.....id just push my bike somewhere like a hill or something i can roll down with some speed or get a buddy to push.....and then id be in 1st gear and just pop the clutch and give it some gas and it starts up....

thanks for all the advice and im sure it works....i think there is a bigger issue with my bike. when i tried to pop it i could hear the bike trying to start but it just wouldnt go no matter how many times i tried. i jumped it and when i would let off of the throttle, the bike would die. i had to ride home never letting off the throttle. i had to jump it 2 more times on the way. at one point all my gauges lights stopped working, signals, high beam, or nuetral indicators were not lighting up. i was also getting a small backfire, pretty constant but not very loud. i just rode the throttle and used my clutch all the way home. i have it on a charger right now and it tells me whether or not the battery is: charging, charged, or trouble. it lit up charging, so that leads me to believe there is some other problem other than the battery. the battery is only one month old. the bike also got hot coming home, i didnt know if that was cause i was holding the throttle for about 15 mins. i dont know what else to do with it. if you guys have any advice, please let me know. my dad has a buddy who works on bikes, i am going to talk to him tonight. thanks again.

If you test everything and still cant find the problem pull the stator cover and check for a burnt stator.
This is a pic of a blown stator from a 1000RR

would that be this


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I'm downloading the servie manual , tell ya in a min.

How old is the battery? I'd start there. From what I've read it sounds like your stator and rectifier are o.k. and the battery is just fried. The bike doesn't put out a lot of power at idle so that's why it's dying. Once it starts putting out decent voltage (3500+ rpm) then you don't need the battery.

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ORIGINAL: rrasco

would that be this

I think so.

http://downloads.honda.icelord.net/Moto/Honda_CBR600F_%2789-90_Service_Manual.zip

Don't take off the right side case cover, that is for the clutch, the stator is on the left side. It sounds like your voltage regulator may be going bad. The reason after you jump it and it runs for a while is that the battery is getting a little charge from the jumped battery. Check the stator and if thats ok look at your voltage regulator and see if you can see any burn marks where it may have shorted out and fried.

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ORIGINAL: chainstretcher


How old is the battery?

the battery is new, maybe a month.

and i will look at the stator and voltage regulator to see what i can find out.

i stripped the plastics off last night, including the gas tank and air filter. it seemed to be running fine with the air filter off. the filter looks brand new, and once i put the filter and gas tank on, it started idling rough again.

These are pictures of the voltage regulator and the stator connector. i can tell the stator wire is burned, does this mean the stator is bad too? i am going to look at the stator if i have to, however the stator is behind the clutch, so i would have to drain the oil and then open it to get to the stator, so i am trying to do this without removing it if possible.

i did get a mulitmeter and test the voltage regulator and stator connector. i tested the voltage regulator showed good. when i tested i could not tell from the ohmeter if it was bad. i have a manual and it told me to test the leads and make sure they are getting .1 - 1 ohms. i believe the ohm meter was reading 1. i dont have any experience with an ohm meter. the manual also told me to check the continuity between the leads and the negative on my battery, if there is continuity then the stator needs to be replaced. i did not show continuity from the leads to the battery. does this mean the connector just fried, and the stator is good?

i believe this shorted when i jumped the bike 2 weeks ago. i posted an earlier thread,( http://www.cbrforum.com/m_75518/tm.htm ) when i saw a plume of smoke coming from where the stator connector is.

what should i do next?

is there any way to replace just the stator wire if the stator is not bad?



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