while its out might as well clean it all out... cant be too safe with that kind of stuff
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Allen Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > If I were you Joe I would pull the carbs and pull out the slow speed > needles, and blast some carb cleaner and compressed air through them. > Be sure to count the turns when you take them out. I'd do a bench sync > too. Then replace the gas with good hightest and a can of seafoam then > go for a long ride. You might want to richen the slow needles a half > turn too. > > On 8/27/10, paul annen <[email protected]> wrote: > > graham.... you would know if he dident show up wouldent you??? have you 2 > > been playing hookie toghether??? > > > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Graham Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi Joe, I'd bet you have to clean the carbs again unless a mouse built > a > >> nest in the air box and you've got no air going through. > >> What are you doing with another 700-S. You never got treatment did you > >> and > >> you failed to show up at the Henry Ford Clinic. Joe, Joe, Joe .... > >> Graham > >> > >> > >> On Aug 27, 2010, at 3:37 PM, MOPARJOE 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! 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