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BOBD Full Member Offline Posts: 170 Blacklick, Ohio Gender:	Fuel sensor and light 10/01/12 at 13:02:11 Has anyone ever tried to make a fuel sensor and low fuel warning light work for the S40? Just wondering.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #1 - 10/01/12 at 13:14:45 I have an out of fuel indicator... does that count?
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BOBD Full Member Offline Posts: 170 Blacklick, Ohio Gender:	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #2 - 10/01/12 at 13:38:03 Very Funny. So do I. I know It needs gas when it quits running. I'd like to find a way to not have to flip to the reserve. Use the whole tank of 2.6 gals and have a warning light instead, like the Suzuki TU250X fuel injected has.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #3 - 10/01/12 at 13:44:39 if you swap the fuel tank with a vn750, it has a fuel level gage. does take some doing.
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Re: Fuel sensor and light
Reply #4 - 10/01/12 at 14:05:35

I attached a small combination lock on the brake line.
When I buy fuel, I adjust the lock to the kilometers from the speedo.
Then later just use my brain abt. 2 seconds and see when it's time to fuel up again. Should work with miles, too, I guess and it needs no blinkenlights, no poppencorken and no blowenfusen Cheesy

Remember the KISS-Principle? Keep it stupid simple.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #5 - 10/01/12 at 14:15:08 Beware the never using reserve idea. The petcock can get pretty stiff & using it ass intended will keep you tuned into its health. Also, reserve is the bottom of the tank, any water will collect there. I swing it to reserve sometimes long before I need it, just to see if it changes how it runs. If it does, I have a clue,,
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Re: Fuel sensor and light
Reply #6 - 10/01/12 at 14:38:23

I'm sure the TU250X does not have a reserve.I had one once. Of course it is Fuel injected. So I guess all fuel injected bikes do not have a reserve petcock or even a petcock at all. I have heard that the 2013 S40 is fuel injected. If it is it must have a low fuel warning light and no petcock like the TU250X. I will believe it when I see it.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #7 - 10/01/12 at 14:53:26 & that changes the mechanical reasoning behind my post exactly Zero
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BOBD Full Member Offline Posts: 170 Blacklick, Ohio Gender:	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #8 - 10/01/12 at 15:11:06 Think I will stick to stopping for gas at 100 miles or less. Maybe I'll look for a different petcock. I've seen one on here, but can't remember where.
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Re: Fuel sensor and light
Reply #9 - 10/01/12 at 16:17:22

LouSiana wrote on 10/01/12 at 14:05:35:

I attached a small combination lock on the brake line.
When I buy fuel, I adjust the lock to the kilometers from the speedo.
Then later just use my brain abt. 2 seconds and see when it's time to fuel up again. Should work with miles, too, I guess and it needs no blinkenlights, no poppencorken and no blowenfusen Cheesy

Remember the KISS-Principle? Keep it stupid simple.

Even easier, and cheaper, is when you fill up, use a grease pencil (sometimes called a china marker) to write the current miles on the odo +100 onto the mirror. when the miles on the odo get close to the miles on the mirror, look for a gas station. Easy to see, and you don't have to do any math. Wink

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rfw2003 Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1108 Yantis, TX	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #10 - 10/01/12 at 16:20:40 That's one of the things I like about the Trail Tech computer. It has a resettable trip Odo, so all I have todo is each time I fuel up is reset it, and then forget about it till it gets close to 100 miles. R.F.
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BOBD Full Member Offline Posts: 170 Blacklick, Ohio Gender:	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #11 - 10/01/12 at 17:13:11 I use a Garmin GPS my brother bought me and put it in a $20 waterproof case. Tells me my MPH and has trip miles. Also has max speed. I hardly use the GPS though. I guess it would be good if I got lost somewhere or to find a gas station.
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Re: Fuel sensor and light
Reply #12 - 10/01/12 at 19:26:23

I like my Sigma Bike Computer.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003BCG9EK/ref=asc_df_B003BCG9EK2205876?smid=ATVPDKI...

Serves both as the trip-o-meter and as a speedometer. I have it mounted in the middle of my handle bars. much easier to see than the speedometer on the tank. I just fill up every 100 Miles.

Question: when you run out of gas what is the procedure at 60 MPH?

I know to flip the pet-c0ck to the reserve but what do you do to get the bike fired up again. Starter button? Clutch?

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Re: Fuel sensor and light
Reply #13 - 10/01/12 at 19:32:01

When you run out of gas at road speed, the engine quits producing power. You put the petcock in REServe. Engine vacuum is still being produced because the engine is still turning, so the petcock is still open. Gas flows into the carburetor, and when there is enough the engine refires and all is well with the world. Exactly the same thing happens if you use PRIme, except that the engine vacuum isn't a factor. Fuel takes just as long to flow to the carburetor either way.

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gdrseeker Senior Member Offline Addicted!! Posts: 365 Carson Valley NV	Re: Fuel sensor and light Reply #14 - 10/01/12 at 19:41:11 Excellent so flip to reserve and wait. Flash break so I don't get rear-ended. GTG
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