Hey Guys, first time poster here.
Last summer, I bought this 82 Nighthawk that had been stored for the past 3 years.
Just started my Café build but I need to have the bike inspected to plate it. Bike didn't wanted to start so I started by removing the carbs and cleaned them using the procedure found on the forum. I let the whole stack soak in Pinesol overnight etc... Took extra care in cleaning the internals etc...
Put the carbs back, drained the tank and put fresh gaz in, bike started right away but something was wrong. Could barely keep turning. Tried to diagnose and found that it's running on cyl #2 and 4 only. Cyl 1 and 3 are cold to the touch (exhaust).
Since cyl 2 and 4 don't use the same coil, at least I know that the coils aren't the issue. So I inspected the wires, all looks good. Unfortunately, I don't have new spark plugs at the moment but the one I do have looks pretty good and they seem to fire fine as they don't get wet, telling me that it might be a fuel related issue more than a spark related one.
Tomorrow morning, I'm buying new plugs and putting them in just to be on the safe side. Tonight, I pulled the carb bowl from carb #1 and checked the air vents and re-cleaned the jets... No success but I found that the exhaust would become slightly warm to the touch afterwards, which it didn't do this morning...
Any tips is welcomed.
Last summer, I bought this 82 Nighthawk that had been stored for the past 3 years.
Just started my Café build but I need to have the bike inspected to plate it. Bike didn't wanted to start so I started by removing the carbs and cleaned them using the procedure found on the forum. I let the whole stack soak in Pinesol overnight etc... Took extra care in cleaning the internals etc...
Put the carbs back, drained the tank and put fresh gaz in, bike started right away but something was wrong. Could barely keep turning. Tried to diagnose and found that it's running on cyl #2 and 4 only. Cyl 1 and 3 are cold to the touch (exhaust).
Since cyl 2 and 4 don't use the same coil, at least I know that the coils aren't the issue. So I inspected the wires, all looks good. Unfortunately, I don't have new spark plugs at the moment but the one I do have looks pretty good and they seem to fire fine as they don't get wet, telling me that it might be a fuel related issue more than a spark related one.
Tomorrow morning, I'm buying new plugs and putting them in just to be on the safe side. Tonight, I pulled the carb bowl from carb #1 and checked the air vents and re-cleaned the jets... No success but I found that the exhaust would become slightly warm to the touch afterwards, which it didn't do this morning...
Any tips is welcomed.