So I just bought my first motorcycle and I have a small amount mechanical knowledge but the bike has been sitting for 20 years. So the first thing I did was take each spark plug out (all of them were oil fouled looking) and put some oil down each cylinder. So the next day I replaced all the spark plugs and cranked up the engine with new gas but nothing happened as I figured so I then pulled the carbs and cleaned them. Now after getting everything together It finally fired up making a little noise for the first 3-5 seconds or so then started sounding normal with a lot of smoke for about 30-60 seconds it ran okay. But it started to make a little like ping noises it wasn't very loud though and it was still smoking pretty heavily so I shut it off since it was midnight. This morning I started it up again and it sounded good for the first 20 seconds but the noise came back. So I pulled the choke lowering the RPMs and it went away for a couple seconds and I repeated until the choke was completely off and the noise still came back so I shut it off. Now I don't even get power to the dash which is a different issue but to me it feels like the engine is screwed and the owner lied about why he parked it plus it only has 14k miles. Anybody have any idea what I should do next?
-- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nighthawk_lovers/866de157-15d1-42b2-b077-8f8f8623a23en%40googlegroups.com.
