SeaFoam works by going where the Gas goes - if the gas can't get there
- the Seafoam won't either. In other words - if you have a blockage in
your carbs or something that is almost blocked, SeaFoam want go there
since it can't flow there.
-Joey
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:37 PM, MOPARJOE <[email protected]> wrote:
> This past spring I bought another 700-S Nighthawk,a nd finally got it
> delivered a few weeks ago. Bike has only 5K miles on it, and obviously
> spent most its life sitting in a garage in North Carolina. The person
> I bought it from, bought it off the original owner, and then sent it
> to a Honda Dealer to have LOTS of things done to it (invoice was
> around 2G), including: tires, fluids, tune -up, as well as complete
> carb overhaul w/ many new carb parts...
>
> Bike was only ridden around the block after that, and then he sold it
> to me a few months later. Bike sat for another few months until I had
> it shipped up here to me in Cleveland.
>
> When I fired it up, it barely started (backfired, and ran like crap,
> and one cylinder was not firing (cold head pipe when running). I
> cleaned plug on dead cylinder, and re-fired, and all 4 were then
> running.
>
> Bike will only run with choke all the way on, and will not take any
> gas/throttle (stalls instantly if throttle is touched, or choke is
> reduced from full choke)
>
> I figured carbs had already gummed up (or got dirt in them), but
> decided to try SEAFOAM, since everyone here has good things to say
> about it. I put an entire can of Seafoam into tank, and have ran bike
> several times in the past 2 weeks, to get the Seafoam into the carbs,
> and hopefully do some good.
>
> Bike still barely runs, and Seafoam doesn't seem to have made any
> difference. I have never used Seafoam, and am wondering if it works
> quickly, or needs to be in there for many weeks/months before results
> can be seen??
>
> Anyone got any other ideas, other than pulling the carbs off, and
> going thru them again??
> Thanks! Joe
>
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