Yes that is what I meant. I remembered that once I took the exhaust on my wife's suzuki gs500 to get it painted. I also did the valve adjustment and I wanted to sync the carbs but I forgot to put back the exhaust. I tried to start it like for 20min until I realized what was going on. I don't think you actually need to but all the bolts of the headers, just make sure they are in. In any case, it looks like you are in the right path.
Javier. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Kevin Green < [email protected]> wrote: > The liquid in the cylinder must have been somebody else. Mine was dry > when I got it. > > So I read a little bit about running with no headers and it seemed like > the back pressure of the header pipes would help so I went ahead and put > them on. I also turned up the idle a bit, and low and behold the bubbling > had become a nice throaty exhaust note and then it caught and started > running! I hit the kill switch basically right away and it kept running > until I turned off the ignition, so I need to investigate that, but I'm > excited to have this thing up and running after 5 weeks of work. > > -- > 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.
