a fuel cleaner (eg. Seafoam) wont clean anything it cant get to... Seafoam is a great maintinance thing, but when your thinking about cleaning the carbs its already to late for that...
the thing to keep in mind with carb work is "surgical clean" these bikes are jetted so small any crud left behind can clog jets and passages... What area are u in? If your local to me (of some other members) we could give help.... yeti -----Original Message----- Date: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:34:59 am To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com> From: "CharlesW" <charlesw_1...@yahoo.com> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Just started cleaning my carbs Allen: Will a fuel system cleaner added to the gas do anything towards cleaning the idle circuit you refer to? I really don't want to pull off my carburetors. Been there, done that. :( Charles On Jan 6, 10:33 pm, Allen Thomas <althomas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't get the carb cleaner on the rubber parts,it pulls the oils from the > rubber and makes them brittle, example: the diaphragms you didn't remove.. > My experience was that the idle circuit passages are usually what gets > clogged, if you look at the engine side of the carburator barrels you will > see some small holes (open the butterflies) these are the ones. Though if > you have the carbs off the bike anyway you should probably take the time to > remove the float bowls and clean the main and slow jets too. The best way to > clean these passages is to remove the pilot jet screws (turn in to > LIGHTLY SEATED first recording the # turns), and the choke plungers, then > alternate shooting carb cleaner with compressed air, until you are -- 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.