Something I did with the Goldwing I had was similar was to use the Yamaha carb cleaner. Is a similar trick but you are not supposed to run the engine with that, because is much more aggressive than Seafoam. First you empty the bowls completely. Then you need to make a mixture of gasoline and the carb cleaner which you will feed through the gas line by cranking the engine but with the kill switch off so it won't start. Then you let it sit for a couple of hours, empty the bowls again, put some gas, and start the engine. On the GL this made a huge difference and it save me from removing the carbs.
Javier. On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 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.
