Web Bike World has an article referring to using straight Seafoam as a poor man's carb adjustment, so I wouldn't be afraid of using higher concentrations. In fact, it seems to be recommended procedure for heavy varnishing of carb jets.
http://www.webbikeworld.com/t2/carb-adjustment/ >From my personal experience, near straight seafoam does work. Getting the bike out after winter, I was stalling on light throttle; throttle cuts the idle circuit, so clearly the pilot jets were clogged.I dumped a goodly quantity of seafoam (3 bottles) into the half-full tank, went for a ride and rotated through light, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and full throttle. After an hour or so, I was back in business. Lucky me; pulling the carbs would have required rebuilding my workbench, which is presently in pieces on my garage floor and shows no signs of putting itself together any time soon. Marco On Apr 29, 2:29 am, Mark Hasslinger <[email protected]> wrote: > If you put a full can (16 oz'er) into any motorcycle gaz tank it'd be over > kill. But if you got serious problems U might try one 16 oz can for one tank > full. And then when the issue is resolved, adding 1oz per gallon in future > fill-ups will keep it running clean forever and no need to get silly with the > stuff. Ya might want to try a little Lucas upper cylinder lubricant along > with the Seafoam. Lucas is like 3 oz per 10 gallons or to simplify just add > one oz per tank full. The baby bottle comes in real handy for adding Seafoam > and Lucas, it's graduated in ounces. > > --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Cavignac E. H. <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Cavignac E. H. <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: sea foam > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 9:06 PM > > ok...i can see how a FULL tank of Seafoam would get expensive after a while, > but why not consider this: > > Full tank of Seafoam at the beginning of the riding season (if you have one) > > Then 3 gallons of Shell Gas, and a can of Seafoam at every fillup... > > what about that? would it work or could it make things worse? > > --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: sea foam > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 3:35 PM > > 0_o > > Well, I'm thinking that 3 1/2 gallons of seafoam would be EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. > > -Kyle > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Cavignac E. H. <[email protected]> wrote: > > How expensive can it get - $20 bucks? > > I remember the good ole days when I could fill up my S-15 Pickup with $20 > bucks. > > investing that money into my Nighthawk? Priceless > > --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: sea foam > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 3:21 PM > > I like to run a full tank of seafoam through the bike. It gets expensive but > wow does it clean everything up. > > -Kyle > > P.S. Do not take above advice seriously. > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Creative Residential Designs > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Read the directions on the can. I always put some in on a full tank and run > my bike at least 15 minutes. HotrodMamma > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christoph Anderson > To: Nighthawk Mailing List > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:04 PM > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] sea foam > > This week I figured would try this Sea Foam that everyone is always ranting > about. Could probably do my bike some good, as it seems to be running a bit > slow and soft. > What is the best way to go about it? (I'm most concerned about cleaning > the carburetors out.) Should I just add some to a full tank of gas? Or run > the tank down to nothing and pour in pure foam? It doesn't seem like there's > a good way to get a lot of the stuff into all 4 carbs at once. > > Christoph > ('84-550 in Vancouver) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
