Year : 1982
Make: Honda Model CB450T Hawk Mileage: less than 1000 30mm Keihin carburetors The bike was running about 10 years ago. It has been sitting in my shed all that time. I had a friend clean the carbs. I cleaned the tank and filled it with fresh fuel. I purchased a new battery. At first I had no power. Cleaned the contact at the starter and the electrical came on. The bike starts and runs now but runs rough. I checked the muffler pipes where they exit the head and the pipe on the right side is not hot. I can hold on to it. The pipe on the left is too hot to touch. I pulled the plug on both sides, connected the plug to the plug wire and set the plugs against the cylinder head while I cranked the engine. Both plugs had spark, the plug on the left may have had a stronger spark. Since I have two bikes, I tried swapping plugs and even carburetors from the other bike. There was no change in performance. When I had the plugs out of the bike and cranking the engine, both cylinders seem to have comparable pressure based on the air coming from the spark plug holes. Since the bike was sitting in a non-temp controlled metal shed in Alaska and the contact to the starter was so corroded I had no power to begin with and that I have tried two sets of carburetors and the bike has less than 1000 original miles, I think (hope) the problem is electrical and not the cylinder or carburetor. Does anyone have a suggestion? -- 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/475de4e2-e1de-4675-bcad-8b8a8eece940n%40googlegroups.com.
