Sorry Graham. At least your getting gas. Air filter clogged? Mouse nest in the exhaust? (Is that better) ;-) If its flooding, and it is getting spark, assuming compression is decent, then it has to be in the carbs. Just double check your work, and set the fuel screws to 3 turns out. She'll start. Let me know how it goes. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: Graham Rogers <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:29:49 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] CB550SC Nighthawk flooding I was afraid someone would send me back to the carbs! Graham On Jul 26, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Allen Thomas wrote: > Floats stuck open? Did you put them in the right direction? Did you set the > fuel screws to a common value between all carbs. Sometimes people turn out > the screws to compensate for clogged jets. Stuck enrichening plungers? Try > starting it with the throttle opened to dry it out. > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Rogers <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:14:58 > To: Nighthawk Lovers<[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] CB550SC Nighthawk flooding > > Here's one that's got me scratching my head. I just started work on a 550 > Nighthawk. I cleaned the carbs before trying to run it although the PO had > it running and I was there with him. Now with the carbs back on it runs on 1 > and 4 but #'s 2 & 3 are just flooding. The gas is going straight out the > mufflers. Seems to have good spark on all 4. The carbs were relatively > clean before I cleaned them. Compression is excellent. Bike has only done > 11k miles. I have the tank off and am running it through a funnel and hose > so it can't be the pet cock. Any suggestions? Graham > > -- > 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. -- 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.
