Right daft question time now so go easy on me please.....
Got the bike registered and took it for a little blast around the scheme, well a 30k blast lol, and the damn thing ran out of petrol.
Now before i went for the run i stopped at the filling station and brimmed the tank with the fuel cock at the "on" setting. So when it ran out i thought that as i had it at the "on" setting that there was some other problem. I moved it to the "rsv" setting and it started up into life almost immediatly. Now my understanding is that when you flick to the reserve tank you get approx 30k's to get to a garage, correct me if i'm wrong. Now i'm thinking that the fuel cock is reversed somehow and the "RES" is actually my full tank and not the reserve.
Now this is my first bike with this so i've no idea what i've to do lol.
I've attached a pic of the setting as it is now and it's running fine and got me home with no problems. As a side note when i turn the fuel cock settings they all match up and will go no further at the ON and RES marks.
Get a phillips head driver, unscrew the plastic cap off, it "should" only fit one way which makes it hard for even a mechanically inept bloke myself to fuck it up, that being said, perhaps previous owner jammed it on backwards somehow. No idea what fuel economy is like on a 6 but I would think it's considerably more than 30k a tank
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as far as my understanding of this tank is, there is no reserve tank per say.
its all one big tank, and its set to suck air at around 4l, then when you turn the switch, it starts sucking from a part of the tank lower to the bottom, hence letting you suck out the last 4l.
Edit. Just out of curiosity, did you open the fuel cap and have a look to see how much fuel was in there? After 30k if you are hitting reserve there is something very wrong with the bike or you have a fuel leak
Last edited by MrWasabi on Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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There is no separate reserve tank it's all just the one.
From what you are saying I think your tank and tap are full of goobies and will need removing and
cleaning out.
Turning the tap just loosened it all up.
Drain the tank through a filter of some sort if you wanna save the fuel
MrWasabi wrote:as far as my understanding of this tank is, there is no reserve tank per say.
its all one big tank, and its set to suck air at around 4l, then when you turn the switch, it starts sucking from a part of the tank lower to the bottom, hence letting you suck out the last 4l.
What you described is basically 90% of motorbike fuel tanks I suggest Definitely something not right if you need to hit reserve at 30km, investigate for sure, maybe a tank of some petrol cleaner shit you can buy at Supercheap or similar is worth a crack but eventually, like my brakes, I reckon you're going to need to pull it apart and clean it that way.
A good mate will bail you out of jail, a true mate will be sitting in the cell next to you saying "Damn, we fucked up!!!"
Not sure if this will help out other than making me look like (more) of a dickhead but... on my bike (96 ZX6R) when looking at the fuel cock (as you call it, never knew thats what it was called) when in the 'on position'(down) it then turns clockwise to the 'reserve'(top) and only turns anti-clockwise when going from reserve - on... fuel economy should see you around the 270-300 before reserve....
just my 2cents, not sure if it helps...
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how big the fight is in the dog...
or is it how big the smile is on your face...
Inside the tank are two inlets to the fuel tap, one higher than the other. When the tap is in the ON position, the fuel flows into the taller inlet tube. Once fuel levels drop to below this, it sucks air. Then you switch to reserve and the fuel flows from the shorter inlet tube.
It sounds like you have a kinked fuel hose, from the tap to the carbs. Most likely if you have had it apart that it wasn't routed/seated properly when refitted and it's restricting fuel flow, perhaps only at revs. Remove the tank and realign the hose so it doesn't kink and restrict flow once the tank is lowered!
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