Let me know what you find. A broken valve spring would be a first for me. Other than the faulty hydraulic adjuster problem, I've never seen a cylinder head failure of any sort. If it didn't drop a cylinder at time of noise, I'd bet on a cam follower. Sure be easier to repair than a valve. Good luck.
--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> wrote: From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Broken valve spring... To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 11:58 PM 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
