That is basically the process we used. It does say to NOT put it in the tank. I'd bet that it actually does attack rubber, we did it in 1 hour soak increments. Twice I think. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: EGrider <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:13:55 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Can a bike run on Sea Foam? Yes, I have some of that Yamalube in my garage right now. Thanks, Allen. I had just never heard of mixing it with gas as Javier suggests, but rather with water. And I've made sure carbs were rinsed and dried of it before they were reintroduced to the bike. Out of the bottle, it is VERY different from MEK. So it sounds like there is no problem involved in introducing Yamalube into the combustion chambers. Also, just thinking out loud here, would cutting it with gasoline not serve to reduce its effectiveness from just filling the bowls until the needle valves seal, the turning it over with the kill switch engaged to put some up into the jets, letting it sit, then flushing it out of the bowls with a couple of fill/drain/refill rotations of straight gasoline? On Saturday, October 12, 2013 8:51:47 PM UTC-4, EGrider 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.
