Moisture in the exhaust is normal in colder weather. It happens in summer too but you just don't see the vapors. Unless you have experience tuning engines you will have to pull the plugs to see if it is running rich or not, unless you get a gunson colortune, or a gas analyzer. Normally bikes come from the factory tuned lean however on an old bike previous owners do all kinds of things, so buying a bike that is tuned too rich is certainly possible.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:21 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul and all, I just bought an 84 hawk 700 with 4000 orig. miles. Very > well kept and professionally repainted, new tires ect. > > The bike does leave a little bit of oil and moisture out of the bottom > end of exhaust, after starting. Seems to have a smokey smell to exaust as > well. > > Runs/Sounds great! > > Is the bit of oil/moisture coming from exhaust normal? Is it perhaps that > the bike has not been out for a good run lately? (December 2014, New York) > > Or is the bike to tuned to rich or tuned rich for the reason it is 30 yrs > old? After a season of riding, will this subside? > > Thanks so much! > > Jane > > -- > 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.
