I was afraid that I was going to have to re clean the carbs. I will look at the diaphragms closer. Thank you for the suggestions.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Graham Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hate to say it but may need to clean the carbs again. Also check the > diaphragms in the carbs by pushing them up and look and listen to how they > respond. Do they all return at the same rate with a similiar 'whoosh' > sound? Are the enrichners (choke) closing properly. Let it run for a while > with the throttle open a little and then check the spark plugs. Are they > fouled (getting too much gas) or white (being starved of gas)? > > > On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Ryan morrow wrote: > > 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. >> >> > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
