Resurrecting my flooded CBR600RR

My 07 CBR was trapped in my garage as our creek flooded. Our house got 2 1/2 feet of water, and I thought my bike was dead. This is my dream bike and I had only owned it about a month at the time. I think my shout when it fires up says it all.

[@liburtonjr7053]

Bro congrats. My 2016 Yamaha are six was flooded during the hurricane Ian. And I’m taking it hopefully to resurrect it as well

[@Quiksilver6565]

Replace the gas, Drain the oil, refill it, and drain it until it stops spitting out tan crap, and pull your plugs and turn the engine over to shoot the water out of the combustion chamber. I used a vacuum with a tiny hose and stuck it down the plug hole to make sure I got all of it. Fired up like a champ after all that!

[@rothnicholas1]

congrats bud. always a great feeling

[@joshuabebo123]

How you get the water out of the combustion chamber?

[@Quiksilver6565]

I literally sucked it out with a shop vac. I taped a small rubber hose to a funnel (sticking out of the small end) and then taped the funnel on to the shop vac hose. This basically made a really small but powerful vacuum hose. Then I stuck it down the spark plug hole and sucked all the water out. I turned the engine over a few dozen times to make sure it all shot out... let it sit open to dry for a few hours, and that was it!
I also detached the exhaust header and sucked all the water out of the exhaust pipe, and got a bunch of cheap oil and filled it up and emptied it like 3 times until I stopped seeing water in it.
Fortunately it had only been submerged about 4 hours, which didn’t cause any corrosion long term. I got 20,000 more miles out of that bike before I got rid of it! Ran like a brand new bike!