Sorry to hear about your ride mamma, let us know what if it is a spring. Btw, what's the back seat called again? :)
-Kyle On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Creative Residential Designs < [email protected]> wrote: > I went for a ride on my '83 650 Nighthawk today. It was about 170 > miles round trip. Coming back home I heard a noise in my top end. Lucky me, > I was at a town only 20 miles from home. It was a tap, tap, tap. I put some > oil in even though I put some oil in before I left home as it was a bit low > still. I rode it slow for about a block. There was no noise until I put it > under load...tap, tap, tap but not real loud. And then...PING! ping ping > ping. I think I broke a valve spring. I pulled it over. I was riding with > Bob so I jumped on the back of his bike (ARRGGG! I hate the back seat!) and > we came back and got the trailer. I am pulling the cam cover off tomorrow to > have a look-see. Now I have 3 bikes and nothing to ride! My old Harley > needs a clutch and I'm waiting for the clutch lever that was donated to me > by a very nice member of this forum. ;) for the Nighthawk Nightmare project. > Between the generous donation of a tank and that clutch lever from members > of this forum I should at least have one bike to ride again soon! Thanks to > the generous members of this forum for helping me to get a bike on the road > again. HotrodMamma. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
