Thu, 01 Oct 1998 13:28:54 +0200
- Message No. 4148
From: Tom Nelen XE50 9398
Subject: Re: Fuel, reserve, and "Unbelievable but true"! - AGAIN!!!
gmitropoulos@pnc.co.uk wrote:
>
> AGAIN!!!! It happened again, I don't believe this!!!
>
> Well, I ve run out of fuel again! For the the third time in the last 2
> months, when it has never happened before in my life!!!
>
> Right, this time I have no doubts. I switched to reserve yesterday evening.
> I did reset the tripmaster "Trip 2".
>
> This morning when I was warming her up, she started caughing and -pouf!-
> out!!! Tripmaster was showing 27.2 km!!!!!!!
>
> What is it going on??? I will go mad!!! Is it the way I ride? But if it was
> that I would not be able to do 200km on a tank before I switch to reserve
> would I???
>
> Any ideas or guesses highly appreciated!
>
> George
Hi there,
I don't want to start the discussion about how many fuel our baby
consumes but, I do +/- 280km before switching to reserve.
I can not say how many km I can do on reserve because I never run out of
fuel. The highest km that I drove in reserve was 50 km.
Here is a guess about the 27,2km in reserve. Maybe it is because the
road that you have been driving was one with lots of curves. That makes
that the fuel is continuionsly shaking from one side to the other and
that makes that the carbs are still receiving fuel when in case of
normal straight a head road it isn't.
Maybe that is way you have to put the reserve on in later phase and
maybe this answers the low distance in reserve.
Greetings
Tom from Belgium (nice beers here)
Sorry, for my broken english
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