Seller Said This $300 1000cc Motorcycle Would Never Run (PROBLEM FOUND)

[00:00:00]Check out this tank of a bike. Weighing in close to 700 lb, having 110 horsepower with a top speed of 135 mph.

[00:00:10]This is the 1987 Kawasaki Concourse 1000. 1,000cc of pure bike here. And these were supposed to be extremely reliable back in the day.

[00:00:22]Top-of-the-line bike. It's a sport touring bike. And uh people just love these. These were produced from 1986.

[00:00:29]So, this is the secondyear bike all the way up until 2006. Second generation bike was from 2007 to 2022. You can tell that people really like these bikes based on how many Kawasaki made. But yeah, very, very nice bike, very comfortable bike, and like I said, very reliable, and that's why people liked them. So, this bike actually took the engine from the Kawasaki Ninja 1000R, but instead of the chain drive, they had the shaft drive on this one, making it even more reliable. And this is a six-speed 4cylinder bike. They put smaller carbs on this bike and a smaller cam than the Ninja to tune it down a little bit. Bike was purchased for $300.

[00:01:11]The seller stated that it was sitting since 2020. You can see the license plate here. I guess the seller stated that it stopped running and he didn't want to deal with it. So, he parked it in his storage unit for the past 6 years until he was ready to sell it. So, that's kind of why this bike sat and that's why it was $300. These bikes are huge. They're hard to move around.

[00:01:33]They're hard to store and people get rid of them for cheap because of that reason. Especially when no dealership or mechanic will work on them. They're kind of a pain in the butt with the four carbs. So today we are going to try to resurrect this one and see if we can get this thing to run by the end of the video. Obviously it's going to take a lot of work. We're going to try to diagnose the problem as to why it didn't run and why it sat for 6 years and then hopefully get this thing up running and driving so we can go rip this thing around. That's the goal. So let's get this thing off the trailer. We're going to take a closer look at it and uh we'll start working on this thing.

[00:02:23]All right, a little walk around of this thing.

[00:02:27]Definitely not the coolest looking bike, but not too bad for 1987.

[00:02:34]You can see that the tank has some rippling.

[00:02:38]I think that might just be from heat.

[00:02:41]probably stored outside or parked outside for a long period of time. Check out the mileage here. 46,416 miles, but these things go forever. So, that's probably just getting broken in.

[00:02:55]Brakes do work. Everything appears to work. Does have a key. It's actually not in bad shape at all.

[00:03:02]Wheels look good. Paint all looks good.

[00:03:06]Body looks awesome. Couple rips in the seat.

[00:03:14]All the blinkers are on it.

[00:03:18]Pipes look good.

[00:03:21]Carbs are pretty gked up, but it does have the original key and carbs on there.

[00:03:26]Yeah, it actually looks like it's in pretty good shape. For 300 bucks, I don't think we can we can lose on this one. Hopefully not, as long as the damage isn't too bad. So, let's get this thing in the garage and we'll start diagnosing this one. I'm interested to see why the guy parked it.

[00:03:54]Well, this thing definitely weighs 700 lb. That thing is hard to push uphill.

[00:03:59]Holy cow, that's a big bike. But as I was pushing it, I noticed that the left mirror was broken off. So, I'm wondering if this thing was laid down on the left side and that's why it was put away. I'm not seeing any other damage, though the body at all. Uh, there's a little bit right there. So, maybe it just tipped in the garage or something, but I thought that was interesting. So, we'll keep that in mind as we start diagnosing this thing. All right, let's make sure it is 1987. Coming down to the VIN down here. Let's see if we can get to it. Right there is the VIN. 10th digit. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Looks like an H.

[00:04:49]Going up to the chart up here.

[00:04:55]Let's see. H. Yep. 1987. So, it is in fact a 1987 Concourse 1000.

[00:05:04]So, we have that confirmed. Let's go ahead and start diagnosing this thing.

[00:05:09]So, the first thing we're going to do is check the oil. See if the seller drained that or changed it before he stored it for 6 years. All right, we're on the left side of the bike. It looks like the fill is right here for the oil. And down here, there's actually a window. Let's get a flashlight. Look, look in there.

[00:05:29]Is that empty?

[00:05:32]That's not good. And the bike is tipped on this side.

[00:05:37]H, that looks like somebody was checking it out.

[00:05:43]That's not a great sign, huh?

[00:05:48]I think that's empty.

[00:05:51]Pretty sure. We're going to wipe that off, clean the window off, and just confirm. But I'm pretty sure that's completely empty in there.

[00:05:59]Well, we're definitely off to a bad start here. For some reason, that oil was drained and it is completely empty.

[00:06:10]So, um, yeah, that's not great. So, we have absolutely zero oil in it. So, we can't really check that. I mean, obviously, when we turn the key, we're not getting anything to light up. So, I'm guessing that battery is shot.

[00:06:24]Nothing's turning on at all.

[00:06:27]So, it has been sitting for 6 years, so that's to be expected. But, let's see if the key can open up the gas tank. We're going to take a look in there and see how old that gas looks.

[00:06:39]All right, let's see how bad.

[00:06:50]Yeah, gas's a little rough.

[00:06:57]Looks a little gked up in there.

[00:07:06]It's not too bad.

[00:07:09]This looks like there's a bunch of old gas that got stuck to the bottom of the tank, but I don't think there's any gas in there. It's all dried up, pretty sure. Let's see if we can hear anything.

[00:07:27]Yeah, there's absolutely zero gas in there. So, typically when the gas sink is empty like that and the oil's drained out, they were probably going to scrap this thing at one point. They must just not wanted to to haul it over there.

[00:07:39]Maybe they didn't have a trailer or something. But yeah, every time I've seen a gas tank drain and the oil drain, it was getting ready for the scrapyard.

[00:07:48]Well, it looks like we can't get a sample of the gas. Let's try to get the seat off of here. Not really sure how to do that. Looks like there's a key back here.

[00:07:57]See if that works.

[00:08:01]Yep.

[00:08:05]Has a battery in it.

[00:08:10]Let's take a peek in here. Looks like the CDI box is here.

[00:08:15]Really big battery.

[00:08:18]So, it says 61014.

[00:08:22]So, that's a pretty long time ago. 12 years ago, that's when the battery was changed. So, that's probably junk.

[00:08:31]Looks like there might be a fuse box on the side over here. But, looks pretty clean. Let's get a reading on the battery and see how low that is. We can try to take that out and see if we can revamp that thing and get that to charge. We'll see.

[00:08:50]Who thinks it's going to charge up here?

[00:09:10]All right, taking a look at the gauge here. See how many volts we're at.

[00:09:17]Oh, we have almost two.

[00:09:21]Better than nothing. That might charge up. We'll try it. All right, battery is charging. We've got 12 volts going to it. We'll see if it can charge. You'd think these big sport touring bikes would have a really nice tool kit with them. We're going to look for that.

[00:09:37]Let's see if we can take off the cutter here.

[00:09:46]Should pop off of here.

[00:09:53]All right. What's underneath there?

[00:10:01]All right. So, just access to the brake fluid there. Let's open that up and just see if there's anything in there since we're over here.

[00:10:12]The rear brake was working. Oh, yeah. It doesn't look bad at all. We'll just top that off. All right. Another one screw here.

[00:10:38]All right. That looks like a fuse box.

[00:10:40]Says fuse on it. What gave it away?

[00:10:46]Sometimes sellers overlook the simplest thing. Sometimes it's just a blown fuse causing all the issues.

[00:10:53]Let's take a peek here.

[00:10:56]How does this come off here?

[00:11:00]All right. Interesting. So, you've got two spares here. 30 amp and a 10 amp.

[00:11:05]That's correct. You've got the tail light fuse here. Accessories, main fuse, horn, head, and flash. So, I'm guessing the only one that would cause issues is the main fuse here. And we can take this off, too. Check out all the wiring.

[00:11:22]Sometimes that wiring can get pulled out.

[00:11:26]All right. If you hear a beep, we're good to go. We'll check the spares, too.

[00:11:34]Be helpful to turn it on.

[00:11:37]Good.

[00:11:38]Good.

[00:11:40]Good.

[00:11:42]Good.

[00:11:43]Good.

[00:11:45]Good. This is the one we're worried about. Yep. Good.

[00:11:51]All right. All of them are good. So, it's probably not a simple fuse problem, unfortunately.

[00:12:00]See if we can take this off out of here.

[00:12:04]And we're just going to check the connections here. Zoom in.

[00:12:10]All right. Let's see what's going on here. Anything pulled out?

[00:12:23]Nope. They all look good.

[00:12:27]So, that rules out that theory.

[00:12:34]All right, get that back together. Let's see if there's any connections bad by the solenoid.

[00:12:42]Here's a fuse here.

[00:12:47]That looks good. It's not broken.

[00:12:51]It's another main fuse.

[00:12:54]Yeah, all the connections look great.

[00:12:58]H, this one's good. Yep. Everything's really nice and tight.

[00:13:05]So, that all checks out. One thing I didn't find though was the toolbox.

[00:13:09]Where the heck is that at? Could the toolbox be hiding in here?

[00:13:18]Let's see. Does this even open it?

[00:13:24]H.

[00:13:29]What's in here?

[00:13:33]It looks like just the insurance card.

[00:13:40]So, no tool kit in there.

[00:13:48]What's in here? Something's in here.

[00:13:57]Throttle rocker.

[00:14:03]H. Interesting. There's a little compartment back here.

[00:14:08]Oh, that's fancy.

[00:14:11]What is that do?

[00:14:17]What's that for?

[00:14:20]Is that like a lock or There's nothing. Aha.

[00:14:27]Is that something?

[00:14:31]doesn't come off.

[00:14:36]Nope. I thought maybe there was a tool kit underneath there. Of course not.

[00:14:43]All right, we're going to try to get the gas tank off. See if we can get to the carbs and the spark plugs. Take this guy off of here.

[00:15:06]Can that lift up? Oh, yeah.

[00:15:58]So, it's got a diaphragm and the peccock there. You can see that goes to a vacuum line, the little nipple, and then the big nipple goes to the carbs. You've got a plugin going to the gas tank sensor, I'm guessing.

[00:16:15]All right. So, I'm guessing there's no fuel pump anywhere. Let's see.

[00:16:21]Nope.

[00:16:24]Doesn't look like it.

[00:16:27]All right, let's take a peek. So, this is where the gas tank was hooked up to going to a sensor. Then it was hooked up there as well. And here is the gas line.

[00:16:37]Looks pretty clean in there, actually.

[00:16:39]Going down to the carbs right in there.

[00:16:41]So, there's no pump or anything. Got the coils here. Those are nice and tight.

[00:16:47]connections are.

[00:16:49]Looks like you've got the coolant in here. This is liquid cooled.

[00:16:54]Spark plugs four, three, two, and one.

[00:17:00]So, all the plug wires are in there correctly. You can see that looks good. All the plugs are in there. You can see some old gas spilled here. That looks horrible.

[00:17:16]really really red looking.

[00:17:19]So that fuel sat for a long time in there. So I'm guessing every carb is gummed up.

[00:17:25]Let's see if the throttle works.

[00:17:28]Throttle works. Oh, it does have one of these on there. How does that work?

[00:17:35]What does this thing even do?

[00:17:38]Throttle's pretty sticky, but it does work.

[00:17:44]All right, so what I think we're going to do is hook up a battery to it and see if anything lights up. See if the engine rotates over. And I guess we'll do a quick start attempt. See if there's any old gas left in the carb. See if it'll at least turn over and fire up for a brief second. All right, before we go ahead and turn this bike over, um, I don't want to turn it over dry. So, let's address the oil situation. So, the oil was completely drained out of it, it looks like, or leaked out at one point, but it looks like the drain bolt is right there on it. So, let's get that out. See if there's any remaining oil in here, and then we'll get some fresh oil going to the engine before we turn it over. Right on the fill, it says 3.7 L.

[00:18:29]That's crazy.

[00:18:42]come right off.

[00:18:50]No, there's oil in it.

[00:18:53]So, was it smoking like crazy? Here's the drain plug.

[00:19:01]Oh, yeah. There's some oil in there. Not a whole lot.

[00:19:08]You can see it draining in there a little bit. We'll check out that oil.

[00:19:14]Looks pretty black.

[00:19:16]Well, oil doesn't look too bad.

[00:19:21]There's quite a bit in there. I'd say that's two quarts. It was about halfway filled up cuz it takes 3.7 quarts. So that's probably why it didn't show up on the on the window.

[00:19:35]But no metal flakes, no chunks in there.

[00:19:40]So that is a great sign.

[00:19:42]But I'm thinking it must have been smoking cuz where the heck did the rest of the oil go? Let's get some oil in here.

[00:19:54]That's on there.

[00:19:57]Hasn't been taken off in a while.

[00:20:06]Little sticky.

[00:20:17]Stick right in there. All right, let's start filling this up.

[00:20:22]We're just using 10W40 wet clutch oil.

[00:20:29]I won't make you guys sit through dumping in four of these.

[00:20:33]Might take a while.

[00:20:42]All right. And we got three more to go.

[00:20:45]Pretty much a little bit less than three more. All right. Oil is in it. Let's hook up a jumper pack to it. All right.

[00:20:53]Negative is right here.

[00:20:56]Positive is right here.

[00:21:00]12 volts.

[00:21:02]All right, let's see if anything turns on here. What do you guys think?

[00:21:08]Will anything light up? Here we go. Oh, yeah.

[00:21:13]That's good.

[00:21:18]Headlight turn on. Nope. But the blinkers did. Let's see. Is the light not on?

[00:21:25]Um, horn.

[00:21:28]Oh, that's a loud horn.

[00:21:31]Holy cow. Loudest horn on a motorcycle I've ever heard. Jeez. So, that is a clock right there. Hours and minutes.

[00:21:39]That's what that means.

[00:21:41]Got the kill switch here. Start button here. We'll push in a second.

[00:21:47]Uh, lights. Does the choke work? Oh, it does. Well, it's actually working.

[00:21:58]Flashers.

[00:22:01]Look at that.

[00:22:02]Those are all working.

[00:22:07]Cool.

[00:22:09]That's right here.

[00:22:11]So, hazard light works.

[00:22:14]Left blinker.

[00:22:18]Right blinker.

[00:22:20]Yep. All right. Left blinker.

[00:22:23]Everything's blinking, too.

[00:22:27]Cool.

[00:22:30]All right. So, blinkers work. Not sure where the lights are.

[00:22:35]Maybe it's there. Nope. Hm.

[00:22:40]I don't think the headlight's working for some reason. We'll have to find that. But there's nothing with the key.

[00:22:52]Yeah. Where would the lights be on this thing?

[00:22:58]Maybe uh when the bike is running, they turn on.

[00:23:02]All right, let's go and see if the electric start works. Here we go.

[00:23:07]Oh, yeah.

[00:23:13]Oh, now the headlight's working. What the heck?

[00:23:19]That's so funny. Look at You can see the high beam is now on.

[00:23:24]Low beam.

[00:23:26]Yep. Must have just rattled something loose. So, everything's working.

[00:23:32]It's turning over good. Cool. So, that's a huge win. Let's go ahead and get these spark plugs out next. Check out the cylinders. Check if we have spark and compression. Kind of go from there.

[00:23:46]Before we do that, let's uh take the cap off here. See if there's any coolant.

[00:23:53]All right. Coolant cap. See if we can get that off of here.

[00:24:10]All right. I think I finally got it to come. That was a pain in the butt.

[00:24:18]Let's see if that's filled up completely.

[00:24:22]Let's dump a little bit in there.

[00:24:29]Dump a little bit in.

[00:24:38]Just taking a little bit.

[00:24:47]All right. It was pretty filled up.

[00:24:51]Didn't take a whole lot, so that's good. All right, let's um see if there's a head gasket issue. So, if we turn the bike over, if there's a head gasket issue, it will be spurting coolant out of here like crazy. Let's see.

[00:25:12]Nope.

[00:25:14]So, head gasket should be fine.

[00:25:18]All right. Now that we have the correct amount of oil in there and the correct amount of coolant in there, let's just turn this thing over and see if she fires. There might be gas left in there in the carbs. We'll see.

[00:25:29]Here we go. Choke it.

[00:25:43]All right, with choke on, with choke off, with the throttle held in, no change.

[00:26:00]She doesn't want to fire. So, I'm guessing those carbs are gked up or there's something else going on with it, like no spark. So, let's go ahead get the spark plugs out and investigate further. All right, let the fun begin.

[00:26:13]Let's start taking out the plugs.

[00:26:17]All right, we can check the plug wire, too, going to each one.

[00:26:23]See what that looks like.

[00:26:27]Ooh, that looks good. Nice wire exposed.

[00:26:31]Let me take a look at the boot. Boot looks really good, too.

[00:26:35]So, I like to just spray a little WD40 just to luber up that wire a little bit.

[00:26:44]But yeah, wire was really exposed there.

[00:26:48]So, that one checks out.

[00:26:53]Twist back in.

[00:26:56]We can get to the two center ones here. Looks like they're kind of difficult to get to. Oh, that one wasn't really connected in there.

[00:27:11]Where can these get pulled up through?

[00:27:14]I think right through here.

[00:27:16]We might have to take the coils off to get to that one. So, this is number three.

[00:27:26]Let's check that one out.

[00:27:29]There's a rip in the coil water.

[00:27:39]There's a bend in it right here.

[00:27:43]H. We'll have to keep an eye on that.

[00:27:46]See that again? Good exposed wire.

[00:27:55]I hope that kink right there isn't breaking that wire in there. We'll see when we check for spark. Cut that off.

[00:28:11]Okay.

[00:28:13]All right. Let's get the spark plugs out of this side. Looks like 18 mm.

[00:28:31]See what these look like here.

[00:28:35]Ooh, that is perfect.

[00:28:38]Look how brown that is.

[00:28:41]So, that one definitely was running. Uh, DR8A plug.

[00:28:46]That one's perfect.

[00:28:49]that we might be able to.

[00:28:52]It's hard to see.

[00:28:59]It's coming.

[00:29:09]Oh, that one was running perfect, too.

[00:29:11]Look at that.

[00:29:15]Looks really good. Same plug. DR8A plug.

[00:29:20]So, number three and four cylinder look like they were running perfectly. All right, let's start with this one here.

[00:29:30]Let's take the boot off of that one.

[00:29:39]Pretty good wire exposed.

[00:29:47]Get the boot back on.

[00:29:54]So, so far all the wire was exposed on every boot.

[00:29:59]See, last one, number two.

[00:30:05]All right.

[00:30:08]All right. I think I see a problem with this one.

[00:30:15]Huh?

[00:30:21]Look at this.

[00:30:26]See that?

[00:30:30]That's exposed wire coming through that line.

[00:30:34]So, if that was sparking to the frame, that would have been really bad. So, what we're going to do is put electrical tape around that.

[00:30:51]Really tape that up. Nice. I'm guessing it was getting a secondary spark from the cut wire here. You can see to the frame.

[00:31:04]So, that's no good. That might have been the problem right there. Maybe it was only running on three cylinders and that's why I put it away. Couldn't figure it out. So, we'll tape that up.

[00:31:31]sparking the greatest.

[00:31:34]Let's see. This is number one.

[00:31:38]Yeah, that's perfect, too. Look at that chocolatey brown.

[00:31:52]It's coming.

[00:32:00]No, that was running perfect, too.

[00:32:03]Nice chocolatey brown. So, maybe it uh wasn't affecting the spark at all. Guess we'll find out here soon. All right, all the plugs look perfect.

[00:32:15]Let's go ahead and uh check for spark next. All right, put a couple plugs in here. We'll do number four and three first.

[00:32:26]Let's see. Here's number four.

[00:32:31]Round that out. Is this number three?

[00:32:38]Yep, there's number three.

[00:32:42]This must be number two here.

[00:32:45]All right, ground those out like that.

[00:32:50]All right, let's see what we get.

[00:32:59]All right, let's turn this on.

[00:33:02]Here we go.

[00:33:06]Oh, yeah. Great spark.

[00:33:11]Perfect.

[00:33:14]Very consistent blue spark.

[00:33:19]Turn up the light for you.

[00:33:29]All right, that's perfect.

[00:33:33]So, no issues with the spark on three or four.

[00:33:39]All right, switch over these plugs.

[00:33:46]Here's number two. Number one.

[00:33:50]Let's see what we get for number one.

[00:33:52]Here we go. Three, two, one.

[00:33:56]Oh, yeah.

[00:33:58]Perfect spark on number one. Let's go to number two. All right. Here's number two. Let's see what we get.

[00:34:10]Perfect.

[00:34:12]All right. So, we're sparking on every single cylinder.

[00:34:17]That looks great. So, let's take a camera, take a peek down there, and then we'll test compression. It's already tricky getting to these.

[00:34:25]There we go. Oh, you can see the valve coming down right there. Oh, that even looks pretty good.

[00:34:34]Piston looks really good.

[00:34:38]Yeah, cylinder wall looks good. Can still Can still see the crosshatches.

[00:34:45]Yeah, I'd say that's pretty much perfect. We'll go to one since it should be on the same stroke here.

[00:35:01]Yep, there's number one.

[00:35:10]Little more carbon on that one, but still can see the crosshatches.

[00:35:15]There's a little rust on the cylinder wall. You can see right there.

[00:35:20]But nothing too crazy. That'll come off as we run this thing. Hopefully it's not too pitted. See that?

[00:35:27]But overall, it looks pretty good.

[00:35:33]Oh, there we go. We're in.

[00:35:37]Looks really good.

[00:35:44]Yeah, no issues with that one either.

[00:35:46]That was number three.

[00:35:49]And last one is number two.

[00:35:54]There we're in. You can see the valves coming up there.

[00:35:59]That looks pretty good, too.

[00:36:02]That one's kind of getting stuck in there. A little carbon on the piston in that one, too. But valves look pretty clean.

[00:36:12]Yeah, not too bad in there. All right, so everything looks good.

[00:36:18]I'm not seeing any concerning issues with the pistons or the cylinders. So, everything is checking out.

[00:36:28]All right, let's go ahead and check compression. This will tell us a lot.

[00:36:32]All right, compression test should tell us a lot here.

[00:36:36]See what's going on.

[00:36:39]He parked this thing for a reason.

[00:36:43]All right, we can do throttle open as well.

[00:36:48]Except it didn't even check the airbox.

[00:36:49]Probably should have done that, huh? I think we have access right here. Let's try to open that up.

[00:36:59]It looks like it might be a sealed system.

[00:37:04]So hopefully no mice living in here.

[00:37:07]Been in storage for six years though, so you never know. Let's see. Anything living in here?

[00:37:14]That is nasty.

[00:37:16]That's probably the nastiest thing I've ever seen.

[00:37:20]Wow. Is that gross?

[00:37:25]That's really gross.

[00:37:27]Look at this.

[00:37:31]There's definitely some mice living in there.

[00:37:34]Oh, gross.

[00:37:38]They didn't make it too long, huh?

[00:37:45]That's gross.

[00:37:47]I don't want to have to clean that up.

[00:37:51]So, that comes out first.

[00:37:55]Let's see here.

[00:37:57]Come out.

[00:38:04]Oh, gross.

[00:38:09]That is disgusting.

[00:38:12]I don't think they're alive. Oh jeez.

[00:38:18]That's really gross.

[00:38:24]I don't think they're too old.

[00:38:27]Those are pretty fresh, I think.

[00:38:38]All right. Come on.

[00:38:40]Come out of here.

[00:38:43]There we go. Where's the bigger mouse?

[00:38:47]Is it in there? Oh, man.

[00:38:52]That is disgusting.

[00:38:56]All right. What's in there?

[00:38:59]Well, I hope nobody's eating while we're doing this.

[00:39:04]All right, we're going to shove a vacuum up in there. It's pretty.

[00:39:19]Something went in there.

[00:39:26]All right, we got the airbox all cleaned out there. Looking good.

[00:39:32]No more mice living in there. I think we pulled out four or five mice. So, there was definitely a family living in there.

[00:39:40]Good thing we didn't uh turn this thing over with the throttle open. It would have sucked those guys in cuz I don't think there's a screen over that. So, yeah, that was almost bad.

[00:39:51]All right, let's go ahead and try this again.

[00:39:54]All right, turn this on. Throttle open.

[00:39:59]Hit the start button. See what we get.

[00:40:09]Uh 190 PSI. That is really, really good.

[00:40:14]So, that's for cylinder number four.

[00:40:18]I'm hoping for right around 190 as well on number three. Let's see. Here we go.

[00:40:30]That one's at 200.

[00:40:33]Wow, some high compression.

[00:40:37]All right, so great compression on four and three.

[00:40:43]Let's see what number one is.

[00:40:47]over here.

[00:40:52]Yeah, we've got extremely high compression so far.

[00:40:58]Seems too good to be true for a $300 bike.

[00:41:03]All right, throttle open.

[00:41:06]Hit the start button. Here we go.

[00:41:15]like 160.

[00:41:17]Still decent. Not as good as the other ones, but still not bad. It'll definitely run on 160 PSI. All right, last one is number two.

[00:41:30]We should be good to go. All right, here we go. Throttle open.

[00:41:35]Hit the start button.

[00:41:37]Oh yeah.

[00:41:41]So really number one's the only one that was a little bit lower. This one's 192.

[00:41:48]So two of them at 190, one at 200 and one at 160.

[00:41:58]All right. So we have great spark on every single cylinder. We have good compression. So that really only leaves fuel. So, unfortunately, we have to take out all four carbs, clean these up, and hopefully that solves our problem. We'll see. There's a reason this guy parked it.

[00:42:15]And I feel like cleaning the carbs would be too simple, but you never know. Let's open these guys up. So, let's try to get the airbox off. There's a bolt here and one on the other side. We'll kind of slide that back and see if that's enough room to get the carbs out of here. Here.

[00:42:33]One there and then one here.

[00:42:37]Now the airbox should slide back a little bit. We'll see.

[00:42:45]Maybe not.

[00:42:52]These look like a pain in the butt.

[00:43:07]Are those going to come out of here?

[00:43:13]H.

[00:43:18]Get the clamps off.

[00:43:20]Even the clamps are hard to get to.

[00:43:37]Try to get these out. Everything else is off.

[00:43:44]See if it'll come out of here. Oh boy.

[00:43:50]Come on.

[00:43:55]Oh, these are going to be a pain.

[00:43:58]Come on.

[00:44:13]Y cut my finger.

[00:44:20]All right, I cut my finger pretty deep here.

[00:44:26]Ow.

[00:44:28]Need to wrap that up. All right, fingers all good to go. Wearing some thicker gloves now. Hope we don't get cut.

[00:44:40]Come on.

[00:44:46]How the heck are you supposed to get this out?

[00:44:59]Where's that whiskey, too? Okay, take that up.

[00:45:04]There we go.

[00:45:14]All the way out.

[00:45:39]There we go. Carb is free. Here's the gas line going in with the filter.

[00:45:47]Let's see if the slides are going up.

[00:45:49]Stuck. Oh, that one's free. Stuck.

[00:45:54]Stuck. So, one popped free.

[00:45:59]It's a little bit sticky in there. So, let's take a look on the inside. See how bad they are.

[00:46:05]All right, let's open these guys up. So, we'll start with Let's see. This is the left side. Oh.

[00:46:16]There was gas in there.

[00:46:21]Bet you every single jet is clogged.

[00:46:24]It's probably why this thing wouldn't fire up.

[00:46:30]Let's see. That's a lot of gas coming out.

[00:46:35]That gas looks really old.

[00:46:39]Bolts have some gunk in there, but it's not horrible.

[00:46:45]Let's see. Plastic floats.

[00:46:48]That's good.

[00:46:51]See if we can push that pin through. Oh, that came out really easily. Nice.

[00:47:00]Float looks good.

[00:47:03]Needle looks good. Let's take a peek at the main jet.

[00:47:15]Oh, that's pretty crusty looking.

[00:47:18]Main jet is clear. 125 for the main jet little bit.

[00:47:24]And we got the pilot out. I thought that was stripped out, but we got her. And good thing because that is just packed full.

[00:47:35]Wow, that is really clogged. And here is the fuel screw. Assuming it turns out we are one, two, about two and a half turns out on the fuel screw. Get that out of here.

[00:48:02]Should be a spring in there, too.

[00:48:07]Possibly an O-ring and washer as well.

[00:48:14]There's the spring that in there. See if we can get it to budge. Oh, that wasn't that bad.

[00:48:22]See if this one comes.

[00:48:24]Yeah, they're just a little sticky.

[00:48:27]That one's free. There we go.

[00:48:45]spring was in there. That's good.

[00:48:49]All right, let's see what the diaphragm looks like here. A little dry looking.

[00:48:59]Got lots of old gas on there.

[00:49:03]It's a pretty thin diaphragm.

[00:49:07]Feels good though. Not all hardened up or anything. Yeah, it feels really good.

[00:49:11]No rips, no tears in the diaphragm.

[00:49:19]Needle was in there correctly. Yeah, everything looks good there. All right, I got all the car bowls loosened up.

[00:49:25]Let's just zip these off of here.

[00:49:35]Second one coming off here.

[00:49:39]Bowl has some gunk in there. Holy cow.

[00:49:42]Look at that.

[00:49:49]That's nasty.

[00:49:53]Lots of gunk.

[00:49:55]All right, number three.

[00:49:57]Oo, that one has a lot of gas in it.

[00:50:00]Look at that.

[00:50:02]Huh. That.

[00:50:10]All right. Number four.

[00:50:14]Lots of gas in there, too.

[00:50:20]Lots of gunk in there, too. All right, just got all the pilots out. Every single one was completely clogged up.

[00:50:28]Let's take a look at the diaphragms.

[00:50:32]See how bad these are. Hopefully none of them are ripped.

[00:50:36]You can see there's a crossover line going from this carb to that carb. Spring in there.

[00:50:48]That looks good.

[00:50:50]Diaphragm. Look how gross those needles are.

[00:50:55]Diaphragm looks really good. Spring is in that one as well. That looks good.

[00:51:01]Get this one out.

[00:51:09]No rips in that one either. There we go.

[00:51:12]Yeah, just old sticky gas.

[00:51:19]Perfect.

[00:51:22]All right, we've got some of the floats in there already.

[00:51:26]Get our diaphragm soaking bolts going in. Let those cook. All right, we loosened all these bolts up with the impact.

[00:51:41]All right, one off right here.

[00:51:48]that off behind the bar and make sure that reinstall bar is right here as well here.

[00:52:10]All right, that's off part this one. One, two, three, four.

[00:52:19]Four. These two.

[00:52:22]All right, let's see if they come apart.

[00:52:36]All right.

[00:52:47]O-rings don't look too bad in there.

[00:52:49]Let's see.

[00:52:52]Oh, those are not that bad at all.

[00:52:55]That's for the breather. And here's for the gas line down here.

[00:53:02]Those are a little hardened up. Get this one out.

[00:53:07]This one just has the main gas line here.

[00:53:12]O-rings don't look bad in there either.

[00:53:18]Let's see.

[00:53:23]Yeah, they don't feel that bad, too.

[00:53:27]Open these guys up.

[00:53:34]Little spring came out.

[00:53:38]These point towards the airbox. That one's pretty clogged right there. You can see O-rings right there.

[00:53:48]And you've got our gas one here.

[00:53:55]Oh, they don't feel horrible. All right.

[00:53:58]Carburetors just got out of the ultrasonic cleaner here. Looking perfect.

[00:54:05]All the bowls are cleaned out. Looking good. Everything's clean. All the jets are clean. So, we can get these back together. All right. Carbs are all done here. All back together. Looking good.

[00:54:19]Choke is working. Got the spring in the correct position there. All the slides are going up.

[00:54:27]That's all working. All new O-rings in between the gas lines here. So, we should be good to go. All right.

[00:54:35]Everything's working. Throttle's working good here.

[00:54:40]Let's move. We've got the choke working.

[00:54:47]So, we can get these installed.

[00:54:54]Let's see. We've got a couple of these that have to go on these springs.

[00:55:10]All right, carbs are finally in after 30 minutes of fighting with them.

[00:55:14]Everything's working. Throttle's working good. You can see down there. Choke is working.

[00:55:22]That's working perfect. We've got our breather line here hooked up. One to here, one to the nipple over here. And then we've got the vacuum line hooked up right to here that goes to the tank. So, we are set to go there. Let's go ahead and get our plugs back in.

[00:55:55]Last one.

[00:56:08]One. One. Two.

[00:56:23]All right, all plugs are in. All right, so it sounds like there's a little gas left in here.

[00:56:34]Not a whole lot.

[00:56:36]Should see if the petcock is working.

[00:57:08]We're just going to zip this guy off.

[00:57:19]See if it's pretty crusty in there.

[00:57:29]Filter's still intact. That's good.

[00:57:35]Doesn't look horrible.

[00:57:40]It can just be gravity fed as well.

[00:57:43]Let's see.

[00:57:49]Yeah, a little bit of gunk in there.

[00:57:52]Definitely some gunk in there. O-ring feels okay there.

[00:57:59]A little bit in there. It's not horrible.

[00:58:06]Really not too bad.

[00:58:11]So, we're just going to blow that out.

[00:58:13]Put it all back together. That was not bad at all.

[00:58:22]Let's see.

[00:59:12]Well, it's finally time for the first start attempt here. So, we went through the whole gas tank, the petcock, everything's good there. The cars were horrible to go through. Getting those out was such a pain. Probably took me like an hour to get those out. Um, and then probably 2 hours to clean.

[00:59:28]Yeah. And then the airbox is absolutely filthy. a little mice living in there.

[00:59:32]Um, but we confirmed there's spark.

[00:59:34]There's compression on every cylinder.

[00:59:36]So, there's really no reason this thing shouldn't fire. The only thing I saw wrong with the whole bike was that one coil wire must have been sparking on the engine causing issues. So, that's the only thing I can think that would maybe cause this thing to run three cylinders.

[00:59:52]So, let's go ahead choke this thing. See if she fires up. And this will be the first start attempt in about 6 years.

[01:00:03]All right, that looks good.

[01:00:06]Turn our PC out to prime.

[01:00:11]All right, turn this on.

[01:00:14]Here we go.

[01:00:16]Choke it.

[01:00:51]Oh Yeah, fired right up.

[01:00:54]That's what I'm talking about.

[01:00:57]No leaking yet, which is great.

[01:01:02]We got the choke off as well.

[01:01:05]Cannot believe this is idling.

[01:01:24]Uhoh.

[01:01:25]Starting to smoke.

[01:01:29]That's not good. Check this out.

[01:01:33]Smoking pretty good.

[01:01:36]I think we know why it was low on oil.

[01:01:38]Uh-oh.

[01:01:59]Oh, it's smoking a lot.

[01:02:06]I was afraid of that.

[01:02:14]Running good.

[01:02:15]But it's just puffing out the smoke.

[01:02:18]Ah, all that work. And it's going to smoke.

[01:02:23]Look at all that.

[01:02:26]Oh man.

[01:02:28]Let's see if she revs out good.

[01:03:02]Yeah, it revs out perfectly. Shoot. Look at all the smoke.

[01:03:14]No leaking at all from the car. Look at that. Not a single drop coming out of there, man. She's smoky, y'all.

[01:03:25]Really smoky.

[01:03:29]I really really responsive.

[01:03:46]Oh, I really hope that smoke clears up.

[01:03:56]That's a bummer.

[01:04:08]must have overheated. Check this out.

[01:04:10]Leaking coolant.

[01:04:14]Where is that coming from?

[01:04:17]Well, what the heck?

[01:04:20]Let's take the gas tank off. Investigate that coolant leak.

[01:04:26]Hm.

[01:04:33]All right. Found the problem. The cap wasn't on all the way. It was on halfway. So, it was off on one side. So, we got that tightened back down. That's now secure.

[01:04:44]So, that's why it was leaking.

[01:04:46]All right. That makes me feel better.

[01:04:48]All right. Let's see if that coolant problem's fixed. See if she fires right back up.

[01:05:09]It runs so good, too.

[01:05:12]What a shame.

[01:05:15]Cannot believe it's smoking like that.

[01:05:19]I thought I was getting a great deal on this thing.

[01:05:23]No more coolant leaking. That's good.

[01:05:27]It was just dumping before.

[01:05:40]Could not sound better.

[01:05:46]Takes a while for the smoke to start.

[01:05:49]Not smoking right now.

[01:06:16]It's not smoking yet.

[01:06:19]Did we fix it?

[01:06:22]Look at that.

[01:06:25]I don't get it now. It's not smoking.

[01:06:54]I wonder if it was burning off that coolant that was spilling on it. There's no way. That was just puffing out a ton of smoke.

[01:07:03]Maybe it just needs to warm up. But yeah, it's not smoking at all now. Well, the battery did not survive. We tried charging it for a good what was it? 7 hours and it's at 7 volts. So, not quite. So, we've got a newer battery here we're going to put in there.

[01:07:22]It's not quite as big. Hopefully, it still works.

[01:08:03]This thing looks shiny.

[01:08:07]really cleaned up good. And that's like five seconds of cleaning.

[01:08:40]Heat up here.

[01:09:18]Heat. Heat.

[01:09:22]Heat.

[01:09:34]Heat.

[01:09:54]Well, it looks like the hydraulic clutch is not working. It's grabbing a little bit, but not enough to move it.

[01:10:01]So, I think we have to bleed that. It's right down here.

[01:10:07]Check out the hydraulic clutch fluid.

[01:10:12]Oh man. Oh, that's going to strip out.

[01:10:18]See if the impact can take them off here.

[01:10:24]Oh, just stripping them right out.

[01:10:28]Wow.

[01:11:12]All right, that's all the fluid that was left in there. Doesn't look too good. It says use only DOT 4 brake fluid. So, we'll fill that up and see if that helps anything. But, uh, we might have to rebule this.

[01:11:28]So, the lever feels pretty firm.

[01:11:34]So, I think it's pushing the rod. I think maybe the rod is just not coming back out, releasing the clutch.

[01:11:42]So, we might have to tear into that and see what's going on there. Very odd.

[01:11:54]I just looked up a common problem for the concourse and it looks like the return valve, which is that hole there, can get clogged. And if that gets clogged, it never fully releases pressure back into the master cylinder. So, what we're going to do, and it looks like it is clogged for sure, is clean this up. Take a little wire and push through there. See if we can unclog that as best as we can here.

[01:12:21]It's pretty nasty in there.

[01:12:32]That is for sure clogged. It's got to be the problem.

[01:13:14]I don't think that's going through yet.

[01:13:18]Whoa.

[01:13:21]Yeah, that was the problem. Holy cow.

[01:13:24]Sprayed all over the camera.

[01:13:29]Almost sprayed me right in the eye.

[01:13:32]Get you guys cleaned up. Holy cow, that was insane.

[01:13:39]You see that pressure build up in there?

[01:13:41]as soon as I poke that hole.

[01:13:47]So, yeah, that was the problem, I think.

[01:13:50]Let's try to clean up this lens here.

[01:13:52]Jeez, still blurry. All right, that's a lot better. All right, now we can get everything back together here and see if that works. I think that might have been the problem.

[01:14:39]Doesn't feel any different. All right, let's see if releasing that pressure from the master cylinder makes the clutch work here. Let's see.

[01:14:47]Heat.

[01:15:08]Heat.

[01:15:28]Heat.

[01:15:38]Heat.

[01:16:10]Yeah, This thing's running great.

[01:16:13]Fires up instantly.

[01:16:21]Clutch is working good now.

[01:16:35]Thing's a tank.

[01:16:57]really slow.

[01:17:07]I can see why people like them.

[01:17:28]Heat. Heat.

[01:18:02]Heat up here.

[01:18:22]Heat.

[01:18:25]Heat.

[01:18:45]Well, I can definitely see why people like these things. It's like riding a couch. These things are super comfortable to ride. The riding position is perfect on them. You're like not too far down, not too upright. It feels perfect. And this bike is running flawlessly. runs through all six gears, has good power, revs out completely, and it's not even smoking. So, that problem went away. I don't know what that was, but it stopped smoking somehow someway.

[01:19:12]And the clutch is working great. So, we got everything fixed up on this bike today. And for 300 bucks, I think we got a crazy good deal on this thing. So, I'm going to fire this thing up one more time, make sure it's not smoking, and uh I think that's pretty much it. This one should be done.

[01:19:42]Yo, this is hot, too.

[01:19:44]No smoke.

[01:19:48]No smoke at all.

[01:19:51]Awesome.

[01:19:54]Can't believe it.

[01:20:02]Give it a couple revs.

[01:20:12]Yep. No smoke. I think we're good to go.

[01:20:16]Well, no more smoke. This one's completely fixed up. So, I'm thinking the guy that sold it either had problems with that clutch and couldn't fix it or maybe something to do with that spark plug coil that we fixed or something to do with the smoking. I'm not sure, but it seemed like it maybe cleared out all the oil that was in the pipe. I don't know if he overfilled it or didn't fill it up enough, but it probably was smoking before. Um, or maybe it was just burning off old fuel from the gas tank.

[01:20:46]I'm not sure, but it stopped smoking.

[01:20:48]That's all fixed. And uh I'm not really sure why he parked it. I'm thinking it it must have been the clutch, you know, maybe it stopped stopped going, stopped moving. He parked it thinking he would fix it and just never got around to it.

[01:21:00]I'm not sure. But for 300 bucks, we took the risk, got this thing, and it ended up being a pretty good project. Very, very nice bike. And uh I'm really happy we got this one fixed up. So hopefully you guys enjoy the video on the 1987 Kawasaki Concourse 1000. Fixing this thing up, diagnosing all the problems, doing the first start, and then the first test drive today. This one turned out great. So, thanks for watching, guys. Thanks for subscribing. Stay tuned for next video. And until next time, we are