Before I sent carbs out to get rebuilt, I'd invest in new boots as they will make the bike run poorly even with perfect carbs. seriously though if you have access to an air compressor, they are simple to disassemble as long as you don't try to take the rack apart, which isn't usually necessary. just remove the slides, choke plungers, jet needles, floats, and float needles. Put on some protective eye wear and alternate squirting carb cleaner and compressed air into the various holes paying special attention to the pilot jet needle hole. When you squirt cleaner into that spot it should come out a group of small holes inside the venturi by the butterfly, if it doesn't spray out evenly of all holes then keep at it until it does. Just be careful when you put the pilot jet needle back in it can very easily become lodged in the carb body if you screw it in too far, also the threads are super fine and can cross thread easily.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Dallas Rasmussen <harleyr...@hotmail.com>wrote: > I have had this bike for a couple years now 1984 Nighthawk S, and my carbs > and boots are not very good, when I first got it I found a place that you > send your carbs to and they rebuild them and paint them black and send them > back to you. Does anybody know of this site or know who I could send them > to because I dont know anything about carbs at all. > > Thanks > > -- > 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 nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
