Melissa, your gasket is probably an O ring if your petcock is of the screw into the tank type as is the Cbs and Nighthawks 550, 650 and 700. The challenge will be getting the filter straw out which will likely remain behind when you remove the petcock. Sooner or later you'll have to clean out the tank. A relatively easy and quick way to do it is to keep rinsing it with gas and draining it, but that is hard to get it all out. I found the most efficient way is to drain the tank as much as possible and then dry it out (in the sun) or using a hair dryer as much as possible and then use a fuel line or similar attached to a vacuum cleaner hose and suck all the junk out. You get it all out that way. Compressed air will dry it out pretty quick as well, Graham
Sent from my iPad > On May 28, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Melissa Hickson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Sorry if this reply looks funny. Still getting used to Google Groups. > > 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. -- 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.
