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Offline tommygunxs

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Dont Honda nighthawk 650 1983 have any fuel filter?
« on: January 14, 2024, 11:43:07 PM »
I bought an Honda nighthawk who has been standing for 5 years in a garage, the old petrolium was bad so I drained it. I hope the carbureatar are fine (I removed the drain screw and nothing come out).

But I started to wonder, the fuel filter my be bad, but I cant find any? Is the fuel filter inside the petcock?

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Re: Dont Honda nighthawk 650 1983 have any fuel filter?
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2024, 12:06:07 AM »
Welcome aboard the forum

It has a  strainer in the tank above the petcock. When you remove the petcock the strainer can be so gummed in the tank with old gas you wouldn't believe it was there. It's called a strainer, it's plastic.
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Re: Dont Honda nighthawk 650 1983 have any fuel filter?
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2024, 02:32:31 AM »
Thank you!

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Re: Dont Honda nighthawk 650 1983 have any fuel filter?
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2024, 04:37:12 AM »
Stu
Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

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Re: Dont Honda nighthawk 650 1983 have any fuel filter?
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2024, 02:46:54 PM »
 I took apart a non-Honda bike recently with a perfectly good petcock screen and a decent looking inline filter but bad gas. The petcock and carb inlets (both sides of the filter) were packed with what looked like cement. Between my fingers it melted back to a goo but was the weirdest thing I've found in a fuel system.
 I ended up replacing the petcock with a K&L reproduction after repeated problems.
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