Good info Marco!! Thanks. Paul
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Marco <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
