You blew air all the way into carbs and back out gas line. That does tell you that your venting is not blocked
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 5:33 PM Graham Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > Darin, I tried blowing through the hose with a compressor. It shot gas out > the gas line to the gas tank. I have the tank off and a funnel on the end > of the gas line. Doesn’t that tell me the canister is a vent for the carbs > not the engine? I didn’t feel any vacuum through the hose from the canister > when I had the engine running. For a fleeting moment I thought of drilling > a hole through the oil filler cap to vent the crankcase but making sure I > had a spare filler cap after having regret doing it. > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 4:38 PM Darin Hatton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> HI graham. Your cannister vent is connected to the air box and should >> have a vacuum on it when bike is running, thus pulling blow by out of >> crankcase. Make sure your tubes aren't blocked and make sure you change air >> filter if it is paper type. The condensate from crankcase will restrict air >> flow when collected in filter. Thought I had mine all cleaned out to find >> out a few months later that what little I didn't get out turned to >> condensation in my air filter. Ran like shit over 5k rpm.hope that was it >> and hope this helps. Darin. >> P.s. drain vent tube connected to that breather canister >> >> -- >> 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 https://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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nighthawk_lovers/Zmf5QjwyszI/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
