This is about the V30 that didn't have spark on 2 cylinders a while back. Is it OK?
It was threatening rain all day today, so I decided to stay in the garage and wrench. I put the carbs back on it and finally got to hear what it sounds like. I only ran it off a bottle of gas, though. Now, with the NH, I just need to put the gas tank on and connect the two hoses, but wit the V30 it's not so simple. I put a fuel filter in between the bottom tank and the fuel pump for anything that might come loose and get into the gas line from the two tanks. I put some gas in the lower tank and put the fuel line that normally goes into the carbs into a glass bottle and started her up. I wanted to see the gas flow from the fuel pump into the bottle before I took it down the driveway for a maiden voyage. I didn't see enough gas flowing from the fuel pump, so I decided to pull the mini plug and put test leads from the battery directly to the fuel pump. I wanted to hear it run off direct power. What I got was a hot spark. Oops. Didn't expect that. Tested it with an Ohm meter and got continuity. Why did it spark? Plugged the mini plug back in. Hit the key once again and now the only thing that happens is the light dims. No starter, no click, just the headlight dims. I checked the fuse at the starter solenoid. It is OK. Guess that makes sense since it is the fuse for the whole bike according to the wiring diagram. I'm looking at the wiring diagram, and it doesn't look like any of the fuses in the fuse box are related to the starter.I was hoping I'd just blown a fuse, but it doesn't appear so. I've seen people short the terminals of the solenoid with a screwdriver and the starter engages. Should I try this? Since I created the problem by doing something similar, I hesitate to just do that without asking the experts first. How should I track down the reason my starter no longer engages and turns over the motor. I actually thought I was going to be riding it around the block today... -- 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.
