Justin: Timing could be off, but it would be the previous owner's fault .  I switched out for a verslavy at 20,000 and the cam chain seemed fine.  If so, I'll have to wait until I pull the top off the engine to check...

Versy, I will definitely do the bowl check, but itll have to wait until I can get to the store to replace the rusty nut in the drain plug.

Sero, I get 56 miles between each filling of the tank and having to switch to reserve (I take pictures of the mileage with my iphone every time the tank dies, average is 56 miles between).  When I refill the tank, I put in 2.3 gallons on average (usually within a mile or 2 of where it dies).  Math adds up to just under 25.  Bike seems pretty happy, and a compression test showed 125 PSI (service limit is 114).

Speaking of, isn't the tank supposed to be 2.8 gallons total with a reserve tank of 1 gallon.  Shouldn't I only be putting in 1.8 gallons?

Thanks R.F.

Do you know what the new levels will be?

Bobber Fett wrote on 09/03/12 at 11:23:48:


Here is the measurements I got on the stock and Raptor petcock.

"The stock petcock provides 78 oz of fuel on reserve, while the Raptor provides 60 oz of fuel on RESERVE - this is without shaking the bike to get any remaining fuel out of the right side of the tank and you may get more when actually riding.  If you got 55 MPG on your bike the stock petcock provides 33.5 miles of reserve and the Raptor provides 25.7 miles of reserve."

You can go to this link if you want the pictures that show the different heights of the reserve tubes:
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1340021926

What's weird on mine is when I first got it, it started to sputter at around 100 miles and switched it to reserve. Then it took pretty much exactly 2 gallons to fill it up. Some few years ago whenever it started to sputter and I switched to reserve and then filled it up, it only took 1.8 gallons anymore. And it has been like that ever since. A couple of years ago I bought a new petcork and installed it, because I thought it had to do with that, but it didn't help the problem. Has my tank shrunk?

Dave wrote on 09/04/12 at 08:30:12:

I changed from the stock IRC rear tire to the same spec Dunlop K555. This one is in fact a little meatier. But should the really make that much of a difference?

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/04/12 at 21:19:40:

It definitely has changed, but my point is that whenever I DO switch to reserve, it will only fill 1.8 gallons in there instead 2 gallons when I got it. This isn't really related to the mileage. In the beginning at the point I switched to reserve and fueled up it counted 2 gallons. Now it counts only 1.8 doing the same. Where did I loose .0.2 gallons of capacity?

Well today I went further then 100 miles before fueling up  Still didn't hit reserve but I think I should have been dang close.  It took 2.36 gallons to fill it.  So that tells me there is less then 1/2 gallon for reserve but still don't know the exact amount yet.

R.F.