Fuel Gauge

[RickSkye]

There is no reserve on my new(1st Sept ) TA. I have to rely on the fuel gauge.
This does not move until 100 miles have been covered, then seems to rush downwards.
I chickened out at 1/4 full indicated and filled to the brim, only got 11L into it. aprox 8.5l left !!
Is this typical ?

[piguglyshandydrinker]

There is no reserve on my new(1st Sept ) TA. I have to rely on the fuel gauge.
This does not move until 100 miles have been covered, then seems to rush downwards.
I chickened out at 1/4 full indicated and filled to the brim, only got 11L into it. aprox 8.5l left !!
Is this typical ?

Yes it is typical!

The gauge actually works very well once your'e used to it - I'd sooner have an accurate gauge for the last half of the tank than a less accurate one that starts dropping from full.

Gauge works like this (depending on fuel consumption of course!)

On full mark till around 90 - 100 mls drops about a 1/4 mark per 25 miles from the top of the red there is about 5 ltr in the tank - good for over 50 miles.
The bottom of the red class as a conventional reserve - about 3 ltr.

Once the gauge sits on the top corner of the "E" (empty) mark start worrying - theres only about 1 ltr left.

Phil

[Robster]

Sounds like my Fazer I had before. I never really bothered with the gauge though, just used the tripmeter as per a bike with no gauge.

[wheeliebin]

I think the fuel gauge is spot on, if you look at the shape of the tank it carries most of it's fuel high up (the fattest part) and as the tank narrows for your knees and to fit over the frame there's not so much. Hence the gauge falling like a stone once you use up the top half.

[Sharribee]

yep Twinkletoes shows full to about 110 miles then it goes down very quickly. I tend to go on mileage for refuels. At 170 miles I make sure I visit a petrol station ASAP

[babybadger]

My TA600 needs a service then, I only got 125 miles last time round (used to do 150 odd when I first got it, but longer journeys to work) to a tank before I had to hit reserve, although I do blast around on it in town, one lorry driver said it smelt rich as well, so new air filter, plugs, breathers cleaned and oil change coming up. I think the choke pistons need cleaning as well, an ideas on how to do this? Thanks in advan
ce.

[piguglyshandydrinker]

I think the choke pistons need cleaning as well, an ideas on how to do this? Thanks in advan
ce.

Slide the rubber sleeve up the radius tube that enters the side of each carb, pull the choke on abit - to remove spring tension, then unscrew the black plastic bit from the carb body (on each side).
Dismantling the plunger is fairly straight foward, but you will see straight away if theyr'e corroded or gummed up.

Theyre' a little fiddly but not at all difficult.

Phil