The last time that happened to me it was a pinhole leak in my gas tank. It had rusted through. It took a little bit of looking though as the paint was not peeled off. I finally found a spot where the paint had bubbled a bit. That was the hole. I hope that it isn't your tank...they are expensive and hard to find. HotrodMamma.
________________________________ From: Zaxeiler <[email protected]> To: Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers! <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 10:22:27 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] 1983 Nighthawk 550 Gas Leak I just purchased this bike over the weekend. It's in great condition and is a great ride. It was sold by a man who collected nighthawks so it's in good shape considering the year, and has about 24k miles on it. Besides the fact that it's my first bike, and I'm ecstatic and love riding it to death (even in the midst of winter), I have finally deduced tonight that it has a fuel leak. So, as back story, I bought it about 120 miles from my home. The deal was too good to pass up on, and I had a friend drive it back for me. About 2/3 of the way through the trip, after about 70 miles she died on the interstate and needed to be changed to reserve. Now, I had read that the range of the bike could vary from 80s-140s... However, considering that we had been doing freeway travel and he had been riding in 6th (overdrive) for most of the trip it seemed unlikely we had been driving aggressively enough to burn through the 3.2 gal tank that soon. So, sunday night upon return home, I filled her up at a gas station and began to practice riding around my area. Monday and Tuesday I did some more practice riding, and considering I'm a new rider, none of it was very aggressive, no red lining, so I shouldn't have run though gas too soon. Today (Wednesday) after a few great days of riding and 40ish miles (I reset the odometer after filling up) the bike died on me and I had to switch to reserve. It was only at this time that I had realized she was leaking gas. Each day I had been noticing a slight drip below the bike, but had assumed it was condensation coming from the bike since it was cold. I hadn't realized that the bike had been leaking on the ride home, just thought we had gone farther than I remembered. So, I understand that this isn't much information to go on. But here's the spread. The bike is dripping gas, I hadn't observed it too often, but this is a noticeable mark on the ground after it has been still for awhile. I rode for 40 miles, so it can be assumed that I actually consumed about 1 gallon, which means that (if you assume something is left in the reserve portion) the bike has leaked about 2 gallons of fuel over the course of almost exactly 3 days. I know that there's no way from this information that any of you can "know" what the problem is. However, knowing where to start looking, or a few places to start would help me as a new owner. If any of you with experience know something that is known to happen with a lot of nighthawks, or if from the information you can make a guess, or at least give any clues whatsoever, I would be most appreciative. >From one new NH lover to the others, thank you ahead of time, Zac -- 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.--
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