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This won't be popular... but I really don't want to stop. There's no one in town that can look at my bike in any kind of a timely manner, and I've done as much as I can do with a multimeter. I need the pros, but the pros are busy and I have a time limit on reaching California. I will definitely keep looking for shops in each town I stop in. Hopefully I'll find someone soon! Just thought I would update on the headlight issue. I couldn't find an OEM part without waiting for shipping... again, time that I don't really have. So I did the mod. It's a Sylvania H6024 sealed-beam headlight. Available at Walmart, O'Reilly's, Auto Zone, etc. for about 8-10 bucks. Unlike "Robert" from the page, I didn't have to break my mounts off. The Slyvania is a little bigger than the stock head light, so I had to bend one mount out of the way and then it went into the front ring. I also had to do some wiggling to get it back in the bucket. With the screws securing the front ring to the bucket, that sucker isn't going anywhere. I think I could probably go back to a stock light by bending the mount back in place. On my 28-year-old bike, I'm quite sure I'd only be able to do that once; any further monkeying around would break the mount. However, at $10 instead of $50+, I don't think I'll go back to the original. It still looks good, uses the same ring and bucket. But it's a heck of a lot cheaper. kiwinPA - I definitely think I have some junk in my tank. But I'm a little nervous that if I take the petcock off, I will expose some ancient gasket. With my luck, it will gleefully disintegrate and then I won't be going anywhere. When I was fiddling with the reserve the other day, I blew air back through the petcock and into the tank. After that, the reserve worked. I'm sure the junk just settled somewhere else in my tank, but as long as I'm rolling, I'll keep riding. Once I get to California, I won't be on such an urgent time schedule and can do more rigorous work. Best, Melissa On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 5:23:51 PM UTC-4, Allen wrote: > > Someone must have hacked your wiring harness because the coils get their > power from the kill switch which in turn gets its power from the ignition > switch. > > Allen Thomas > -- 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/d/optout.
