Yesterday while pounding out some serious miles in a short amount of time on the interstate I noticed I was just heading into the red zone on the fuel gauge. As my buddy and I were passing a sign, on a toll road, that we were getting close to a service area, he pointed to his tank and shrugged his shoulders. I motioned thumbs up. We went another 13 miles. About 1/4 mile out my bike quit and due to our speed was able to pull the clutch in and roll up to the pump. When I opened the tank I noticed quite a bit of fuel in there. What the hack happened?

 

vacuum line to petcock ! or your cheap R/R (LOL) -!

 

Nope! Guess again.

and leave my R/R out of it.

 

You hadn't switched to reserve?

Tank breather blocked?

You accidentally hit the kill switch?

....................Too early for any more guesses,

Cheers, SB

PS: Actually, I'm tending to the third guess above.

 

Your tubes are blocked - well the one that lets the tank breath.

Maybe the main fuse went out !

Battery cable fell off.

Somebody watered their pony in your gas tank.

 

Is this an excerpt from one of those Screech induced flash-backs you're known for? Next you will start to relive that one about racing cupcakes riding little yellow scooters on the Dragon...no wait I think that really happened.

 

I know.

You went beyond the edge of the current maps that you have loaded into your GPS.

So it automatically shut down your ignition to prevent you falling of the edge of the known world and getting eaten by dragonf.

This will avoid the possibility of your heirs bringing a suit against Navman, for failing to adequately protect you from getting eaten by dragonf.

But of course you chose to override this inbuilt protection, thus absolving Navman from any potential liability.

 

Arrrrrrrrgh!

Here be Dragons

Cheers, The Dread Pirate SB

 

I have graded the results.


Sprock D (You need to pay more attention in class.)

Sebastionbear B+ (Pick the best answer and stick to it. Don't be influenced by what others think. )

cb2cbr C- (I worry about your grades and I am sending you for physiological review. I know you can do much better with some help.)

kiwi TK F- (You are daydreaming again in class and will have to stay over.)

 

Back when I used to commute every day, I noticed that my gauge had 3 readings: Full, a little under 1/2 Full and Red Zone. If I started to work the first time it hit red zone, I knew I had 3 one way trips left before reserve (approx 60 miles) Being a "fly by the seat of my pants" guy, I learned interpret erroneous data and convert it to real life use. Only got caught flat-footed once.

It might have to do with your fuel gauge sending unit. Either an electrical gremlin or even (I have seen this in old cars) a leak in your sender float causing the unit to partially sink, telling the gauge that there is less fuel than there really is.

I don't know if this the case with our bikes but please listen:

My experience in a Mopar Restoration Parts supplier gives me this theory. Anyone can feel free to support or dispute this.

On a 60' to early 70's Mopar fuel sending units. The sending unit and its retaining ring where it came into contact with tank actually was the ground (earth) for that circuit. Show car guys in their zeal to address every detail would often paint their gas tanks and then call us up and complain that the sending unit we sent them was faulty. It took a bit of guessing until we hit on the advice that they go back and sand the paint from the area where the sending unit contacted the tank. Fixed the problem 100% of the time.

I'm thinking there is a faulty ground/ corrosion issue somewhere