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Message started by piedmontbuckeye on 11/04/16 at 12:30:27

Title: Owner's Manual for 2011 S40
Post by piedmontbuckeye on 11/04/16 at 12:30:27

Is there anywhere on here or elsewhere where I can get a PDF (or TXT) file of the original owner's manual. I want to read from the mfg's perspective how an owner is to care for this bike, and how to do the normal things an owner is expected to do.

I am not quite sure of the available features are and how they are to be used.

I am particularly perplexed by the petcock. (BTW, I have read the several threads on how to modify existing petcock, an how to replace petcock with another one!) I want to know how the mfg. wants the petcock to be used. If it works both in "PRI" and in "ON" exactly the same, why have both positions? I come from the "ON, OFF, RES" world, and this is the first I have run across this config.

I will definitely change mine if I understand correctly that if the petcock fails (either way by not working at all and starving the engine, or by not working and flooding the engine, or worse, filling up the engine oil with gasoline). I will probably try the modification method as I am pretty mechanical and also a toolmaker/machinist.

I would like that manual if there ever was one!

Thanks,

Title: Re: Owner's Manual for 2011 S40
Post by verslagen1 on 11/04/16 at 12:39:39

there's a copy in the tech section (see the index below?)

Title: Re: Owner's Manual for 2011 S40
Post by piedmontbuckeye on 11/04/16 at 12:55:56

607364657A7771737827160 wrote:

there's a copy in the tech section (see the index below?)

I think I found it just after I posted. Thank you, though.

I did read (and downloaded) it - especially the section on the petcock. I just wish the guy who thought up the automatic petcock would have left well enough alone. The old ON-OFF-RES petcock worked just fine, and in my opinion, better!

At least now I know how they expected it to work!

Title: Re: Owner's Manual for 2011 S40
Post by piedmontbuckeye on 11/04/16 at 12:59:03

283B2C2D323F393B306F5E0 wrote:

there's a copy in the tech section (see the index below?)

Also, PS:

Thanks so much for this forum. I really love getting information and advice first hand from those who really know these bikes, and love them!

I was used to that from the old BMW forum where I practically lived. There, though, I was conferring about my 38-year-old BMW which presented a lot of issues due simply to age!

I will definitely be contributing to hopefully keep all this good stuff going!