I have a 1985 Honda Nighthawk cb700s that stopped running. It started to ride really choppy then when I put in the parking lot it just died. I checked for a spark which looked ok and the compression looked ok to me ( I do not have a compression tool, I checked by feeling air shooting out of the spark plug hole), it was cranking like it wanted to start but when I finally got it home it didn't even crank. The next day it started to crank again. I was smelling a lot of gas so I checked the air box and it had gas in it. I drained the gas from the air box and tried to start it again and the gas come back in the air box. I replaced the petcock gaskets almost a year ago and got a new battery 2 months ago. Yesterday I drained all of the gas from the bike and put 1gul in the tank and it started up but won’t idle correctly.
Today a cleaned the crabs and recheck the fuel line and fuel filter. I started it up and idle ok but on a fast rav it tries to stall and on a slow rav it is ok. I tested the batter way the bike was off it tested at 12.5 V and tested it when I was raving it tested at 14.5V. I had Sportland tested the regulator/rectifier and it tested good. So I don’t thank the problem is the crabs or the alternator or the regulator/rectifier. Does anybody have suggestions to help me out? Thanks for any help Ryan -- 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.
