Sounds like you are on the right track, but I would pull carbs. You asked for what "we" thought. My part of that is pull carbs, take off bowls, take out jets, blow all of these out. I use mothers aluminum polish on float valve seats on q tip on drill. Does a great job . I like to use brake clean on the aluminum parts to clean and blast away small bits, but rubber parts should be removed. Had to do this on my 700 after it sat unattended for many years
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 6:36 PM Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > The rubber-tip floats on my 02 Nighthawk 750 seem to have degraded beyond > use. I can start the bike and idle/rev if I turn the fuel valve on (filling > the bowls), and then off again. If the fuel valve is left on, one or more > of the floats overflow and flood the bike out, cause exhaust smoke, > sputtering, etc. What caught me off guard is that the nighthawk 750 doesn't > have bowl overflow tubes, so the fuel just rises until it reaches the > throttle bore, all my vintage bikes would just piss it out onto the ground. > So, I have 4 new float needles coming, which I will install after cleaning > the needle seats with alcohol and a q-tip. I will also clean out the > petcock filter. Do you guys think anything else should be done? > I'm going to try to replace the needles with the carbs still in the bike, > I think a 90 degree screwdriver should get those float screws off. > Thanks, > Daniel > > -- > 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 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.
