Glad you finally came out of the shadows Ralph! Nice looking bike! :) Paul
* Paul LeBoutillier * *www.hondanighthawks.net <http://www.hondanighthawks.net/>* Honda Nighthawk Lovers Email group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nighthawk_lovers> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Ralph Dewar <[email protected]> wrote: > have been a long time watcher from the sidelines and have decided to step > across the lines and play along. > > I have an 1983 650 nighthawk and bought bike in 2002 after previous owner > had let it sit in his shed for the last 8 years. I rode it for a couple > of years till my wife became pregnant, and put it away in my garage for a > few more years. Brought it out 3 years ago and started to fix things > up. In the mean time found this group and was able to glean lots of very > informative stuff. With all this new found confidence, I decided to > undertake replacing the valve seals as the bike was smoking a bit, and had > been sitting idle for so many years. The whole procedure was a slow > process, but I was able to replace them, reassembled everything and have it > running again. But now it blows blue smoke even worse than before. It > appears to be coming out both sides equally. Did clean up valves when > I had them out, which was primarily wire brushing the carbon off. Used a > bit of gasket cleaner on block and this may have cleaned the carbon off the > top of cylinder wall allowing blowby. I have ridden it about 150 km to > see if it clears itself up. So, I am not quite sure where I may have > gone wrong. > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
