This past spring I bought another 700-S Nighthawk,a nd finally got it delivered a few weeks ago. Bike has only 5K miles on it, and obviously spent most its life sitting in a garage in North Carolina. The person I bought it from, bought it off the original owner, and then sent it to a Honda Dealer to have LOTS of things done to it (invoice was around 2G), including: tires, fluids, tune -up, as well as complete carb overhaul w/ many new carb parts...
Bike was only ridden around the block after that, and then he sold it to me a few months later. Bike sat for another few months until I had it shipped up here to me in Cleveland. When I fired it up, it barely started (backfired, and ran like crap, and one cylinder was not firing (cold head pipe when running). I cleaned plug on dead cylinder, and re-fired, and all 4 were then running. Bike will only run with choke all the way on, and will not take any gas/throttle (stalls instantly if throttle is touched, or choke is reduced from full choke) I figured carbs had already gummed up (or got dirt in them), but decided to try SEAFOAM, since everyone here has good things to say about it. I put an entire can of Seafoam into tank, and have ran bike several times in the past 2 weeks, to get the Seafoam into the carbs, and hopefully do some good. Bike still barely runs, and Seafoam doesn't seem to have made any difference. I have never used Seafoam, and am wondering if it works quickly, or needs to be in there for many weeks/months before results can be seen?? Anyone got any other ideas, other than pulling the carbs off, and going thru them again?? Thanks! Joe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lov...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
