If the carbs are dirty enough messing with the idle screw will need to be done when cold and then again once it warms up. As for the clacking I'd suspect the clutch. The cork friction material turns into linoleum after 30 years then starts cracking and falling apart. Investigate the issue before riding more you don't want to get in a situation where you can't disengage the clutch.
Allen Thomas On Apr 11, 2015 11:06 AM, "nuevajohn" <[email protected]> wrote: > I was out for a drive last night and had some unsettling sounds coming > from my bike. When I go from higher gears to low, at stoplights and > whatnot, I can hear some clacking and one time it was shaking bad enough to > scare me into cutting it off and checking the oil...At one point it didn't > want to go into first gear. I would say I heard this clacking sound about > have the time I came to a rolling stop. It happens with the clutch > disengaged. What is going on? > Note: the day before yesterday I turned my idle screw up/in because it was > shutting off at the stoplights. I turned it many (maybe 6) times and it > only changed the RPM a little bit, but last night it was suddenly idling > way too high and I had to turn it down. I don't know yet if that fixed the > above problem because I turned into home a couple minutes later. > > -- > 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.
