Does the 00/01 tank fit straight on your bike?That'd give you a couple more litres to play with if you do a lot of mileage.
Quote from: darrsi on 03 February 2013, 12:13:42 pmDoes the 00/01 tank fit straight on your bike?That'd give you a couple more litres to play with if you do a lot of mileage.I guess it would. When I had the tank off for repair a few years back I drilled a hole in the side of the filler tube. Air escapes there as the level rises up beyond the bottom of the tube so "overfilling" the tank doesn't take long... can usually get 19 litres in.If I ever need to replace the tank though, I'll hope to get the newer one.
When you filled up, how many liters did you get in mate? If it was close to what you should've put in a pretty much empty tank, all be good, otherwise you could possibly have a shed load of dodgy fuel sitting in the bottom - I had that on my last bike and it basically restricted my range on the reserve tank to about 10 miles from what should've been about 4 liters, ended up emptying out the tank and flushing some redex through it and voila, proper tank range was restored
I do newB riding, reset the trip on filling and brim it every time (all 2 times I've done it). I get about 145 miles before the reserve light flicks on, then I go hunting for fuel.If I get to 145 and the reserve light doesn't come on.....I go hunting anyway.When I brim it from reserve at 145 miles I get about 13 litres in it.Moral of the story is to reset your trip, calibrate your distance vs how you ride and pay attention to it :-)Sorry if this is a sucking eggs moment. Trying to help.
Would you mind telling me how many miles you get before the reserve light comes on ?Cheers
The new tank will fit your bike but if it's a pre-2000 model I'm fairly sure you'll need to swap over the fuel sender unit from the base of the tank. It's not a big job ( direct replacement ) and if you do the air gap mod you'll get around 24 litres in there.I did this on my Mk1 Fazer which I put the 2002/3 Foxeye tank on. I got to 297 miles before it ran out. Having said that the fuel low light was on for around 125 miles. I asked ( on the old forum ) what turns on the fuel light and no-one knew. It is not switched on by the position of the float, I got to the assumption that it was switched on by the petrol not making a contact across the guts of the sender ?HTH... Baz
Thanks Baz, didn't realise a 2003 foxeye tank would fit. A near-300 mile range would be wonderful!Having said that, I'll probably stick with my existing tank until it rusts through.I guess the mod you refer to is much the same as I've done to my tank... a hole drilled through the filler neck to allow filling below the bottom of the tube.Incidentally, if any MkI owners want to do this to an older style tank with the long filler tube, don't drill through the left side of it like I did. The two breather pipes run up that side and I was damn lucky not to go through one of those too which would have pretty much written the tank off. (And obviously, take the usual precautions... red hot swarf and petrol vapour are a bad combination.)
"....a hole drilled through the filler neck to allow filling below the bottom of the tube...."Sorry, i'm probably being a bit slow here, but can you explain this a bit more please?
Quote from: darrsi on 09 February 2013, 10:10:43 am"....a hole drilled through the filler neck to allow filling below the bottom of the tube...."Sorry, i'm probably being a bit slow here, but can you explain this a bit more please? Oops... no, you weren't being slow... I was. The description would have made much more sense had I written "above" rather than "below"!
So are you saying you can gain about a litre of space then just by opening that little hole up?