Again - incredibly helpful advice, which I will take to heart. I'll start with the Seafoam, and check for any leaking around the carbs. Otherwise, you guys have been so helpful that I'm going to post one more thread, which should do it for me for awhile.
Thanks again for all you useful, timely replies... CN On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 4:45:15 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > I'm posting this because I've gone through the list of threads, and I > didn't see one that quite matched my situation. So here goes: after ten + > years of sparse riding, and with 19k miles on the bike, I want to do some > carb cleaning. I've never touched them, and the bike has sat an awful lot > over the past decade. I live in Maine, so there's lots of condensation, > temperature variation, etc. The bike runs good, but not great (it seems to > me it takes a little too much choke to get it going), though I'm no expert. > Gas mileage about 55 per gallon. How much work should I do? And will it > require taking the entire carb assembly off? I've got a Clymer manual, and > am a decent diy'er. And thus far, I've been totally amazed at how > knowledgeable people here are, so I'd like to avoid major mistakes and > learn some good techniques. All suggestions/observations and advice > happily welcomed! > > > CN > -- 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.
