Hello Everyone...

I have a quick question. I have a 95 F3, and this weekend I changed out my damaged tank to a undamanged used tank. It was riding perfectly fine before I had made the swap (all day saturday). After the swap, (morning sunday) I took the bike for a test drive and it just sputtered like as though gas was running low, like when you are on "ON" and need to switch it to "reserve". Neither position works. The funny thing is that if I stop the bike or just leave it at idle it idles perfectly fine and I have rev the motor all the way wthout it sputtering. This only happens when I drive it above 25 MPH OR so, it feels like there isn't enough fuel.

My question is, Could it be a fuel filter problem? I did not clean out the tank prior to installing it, maybe junk got into the fuel filter? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Additionally, I know that there is gas becuase the gas line leaked gasoline when I attempted to pull the tank off.

 

yea it could be fuel filter problem since you didn't clean out the new tank. also you may have a kinked line.

as far as it not doing it in idle, usually it won't unless it's very bad as there is no load on the motor during idle.

 

Yeah I think that's the problem. My friends taking a look at it right now and he says the filter that was inserted into the tank didn't fit correctly so that may have led to debree going into the filter. It will be replaced so we'll see. thanks.

 

My 1st thought was maybe a fuel line got pinched...is that possible?

 

I dont' blieve thats the case cuase the fuel line was very short. I've ordered the filter, there not that expansive so we'll have to see. Maybe thinking of replacing that fuel line too since it looks like it's been cut before.