When i sold my 250, the tank was empty, but i put a can of seafoam in when loading it on the trailer. The guy test drove it for about 30 min and finally came back (ran out of fuel in his parking lot)
So yes, it will run on straight seafoam, but its not happy (and smokes like Willie Nelson) On Oct 12, 2013 9:05 PM, "Kurt Nolte" <[email protected]> wrote: > > It can, but it wouldn't *run* on it. You would have a horribly lean mixture, poor idling, and utterly no power under way because of poor fuel quality of the cleaner. > > An efi bike, with the feedback loops associated with such sophistication, would handle it better but still would be poor. > > On Oct 12, 2013 8:51 PM, "EGrider" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I read somewhere, maybe on this forum, of a technique of running a bike on a hand-held bottle of gas and pouring in Sea Foam until the engine stalls. Then you let it sit for a while, finally emptying the carb bowls and then reattaching the main gas tank. Sounded worth a try, so I decided to do the little experiment this afternoon. >> >> I actually used a turkey baster from the dollar store with the bulb removed on about an 18-inch length of gas line, so it didn't have a lot of gasoline to work with. I watched the gas going down and started pouring in the Sea Foam. I was ready for the thing to choke and die, but it never did. It started belching smoke out the exhaust pipes, but it just kept running. I dropped the hose to the floor and nothing came out, meaning that it was running off Sea Foam in the bowls, but it kept running. I shut the bike off, picked up the turkey baster, filled it back up with gasoline, and ran the bike again until the smoking stopped. Hmm, not what I expected. >> >> I've read Sea Foam is supposed to be light oil, naphtha, and isopropyl alcohol. Will a bike really run on that, or did I never get close enough to straight Sea Foam to choke the bike? Thoughts? I really don't have time to pull the carbs if I don't have to. Get I get the technique wrong? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
