sunshinehawk74

Hello I just purchased a very clean 10k mile hawk and love it.Well love with no performance mods. What has me concerened is a tapping sound comming from the rear cyl at low rpm.This just started to get worse after the last 20miles. The bike runs/ran perfect its just that I have noticed that the last time i had it out it backfired once and stalled when comming to a stop. I suspect the cct has failed. Is the back fire due to the timming being out? The bike started and ran fine after that. I do not believe this bike was ever abused. I do not want to damage it so I am not running it untill my ape manual cct arrive.After reading about hondas and there cct trouble I will replace the cct on principle. Does this sound like my timming is only off a little? How can I tell if major damage has been done?what do you think? thanks

Wolverine

If you have cct's on order, wait and when you install them you can visually check cam timing.

Do a little searching, all the answers have been covered numerous times.

jerryh

It does seem to be the case. I picked up a Hawk couple months ago and immediately ordered Kriegers. Make a few changes and you will love the bike. Comfy, smooth, torqey, decent mpgs, decent range, nimble, narrow, digs like a bat outta hell powering out of corners, middle of the road styling that will look good for years, its a Honda!