New member from Britain

[Guest]

Hello from Britain I have joined as I picked up a Hawk recently that has stood in a shed for a while and I am in the process of going through everything replacing or servicing as required. I have already fallen for the twin plug head thing. Only spotting the extra centre plugs when I took the tank off

[The Cheese]

Hello.

[Crash_Override]

Welcome! I’m pretty new here too and it’s great, plethora of info here. I was surprised by the 4 plug 2 cylinder dealy too. I’m pretty sure the previous owner was too. The 2 visible plugs were brand new, the other 2 looked like shit

[yorkshire]

Welcome, great useful information here

[The Cheese]

Mine has two NGKs and two Autolights in it.

[Guest]

Welcome! I’m pretty new here too and it’s great, plethora of info here. I was surprised by the 4 plug 2 cylinder dealy too. I’m pretty sure the previous owner was too. The 2 visible plugs were brand new, the other 2 looked like shit

Yeah I have only taken the rear centre plug out so far and it looks like it's been there a loooooooong time the NGK lettering has faded so much it's unreadable. I hate to think what the front centre plug looks like.

[6]

Yeah I have only taken the rear centre plug out so far and it looks like it's been there a loooooooong time the NGK lettering has faded so much it's unreadable. I hate to think what the front centre plug looks like.

Welcome! Congratulations on the new hawk.


I have from time to time kept a set of plugs in a hawk for a LONG time... If they spark well and plug hole that's a good enough spark plug for me. Haha
Hope you stick around and get to know everyone. Good group here.. and if squirrel gets grumpy at you pay him no mind.

[Guest]

The front centre plug. The little swine took me nearly an hour to remove

[The Cheese]

Don't have the factory took kit? The spark plug wrench works well.

[Ziggy]

Don't have the factory took kit? The spark plug wrench works well.

A must have tool IMHO.

[Guest]

No factory tools unfortunately. I was searching through all my tools looking for a plug socket of the right length, luckily I found one that just fitted though it could have done with being a little longer.

What does the factory plug tool look like I will try and find one on fleabay.

[Guest]

Found one but with postage it costs £35

Think I will pass

[Guest]

All plugs finally fitted. It now fires up instantly without any choke.

Next up oil and filters plus coolant change. Oil smells a bit of petrol/gasoline the petcock was leaking so worried some got through to cylinders. I can get Shell advance semi-synthetic for a good price locally, is it worth the extra £12 for the full synthetic.

[jspeed53]

Hello Fastmongrel
Is your bike a BROS or a Hawk? Can you post a photo or two of your aquisition?

[The Cheese]

I found this on ebay.uk

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/372985258785?epid=1324441478&hash=item56d7a76321:g:L8IAAOSw9rJeasGI