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Is the fuel filter on the 85 LTD the same as on other 1200's. I saw in the posts where it was described as quite spendy. I called my local shop and they said they had one for 5 dollars. Should I be looking for something special.

 

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Well thats diffinately more then 5 dollars. I thouht that might be the case but figured this was the place to a check. Do you know what this costs at Mama Honda.

 

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exavid wrote:

Is there any room to put a regular cheap type filter between the tank and the high pressure pump? If you can the expensive one ought to last near forever. Sorry to say I can't remember the plumbing on my SEI enough, but I thought the pump was separated from the tank with enough room for primary low pressure filter.

I am on a trip to Boston this week. I will let you know if a pre pump filter is possible when I getback home. Sounds like a good idea to me. Thanks Guys

 

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Well I ordered a new fuel filter but now I am thinking it will go in my tool box when it comes in. By the way Honda was smarter then we thought thereis about a 2 inch long cone shaped screen in the input to the fuel pump so another filter would be redundant expecially since this one comes out and cleans so easily. In fact I took about 2 second to dump about an inch of crud out of mine. Gee do you think that might cause a problem. I went ahead and pulled the high pressure filter while I was at it and using my air compresser I forced some carb cleaner back though it. So far problem is solved. Still ain't a bad Idea having a filter for her on hand.

 

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Thank you I will make a note of that.

 

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Ok its not the fuel filter. The bike does fantastic most of the time but has on a 3 occasions now limped home after work. I will be riding along and will go to accellerate and the bike will decellarate instead then 2 seconds later surge. Sometimes if I don't adjust the throttle the bike will ocililate between power surge and no power. If I snap the throttle a few times I may kind of come out of it untill the next throttle movement. So what is my most likely culprit. Remember this is an electronic nightmare LTD.

 

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Got it thanks, a little hard to trouble shoot because, if I come to a stop and kill the engine I may have to drive it another 100 miles before it reoccurs. I have checked the LED's when it occured before shutting off but none were lit. And all the LED's do Illuminate when key switch is first turned on so they are working.

 

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Thanks this problem has been fixed for 3 years, my problem was being caused by the fuel filter but it was still occured on long hot rides even after I replaced the filter. The problem went away after I removed my chrome side covers that were traping engine heat around the filter.

 

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Not a problem, at the time I was thinking of a pre fuel pump filter so it wouldn't have been a problem do to pressure but you are right it could have starved the pump and caused problems later. I was glad to find out that it was a vapor problem do to over heating the filter. My brother has that bike now and it is still going stong.

 

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When I was having problems I asked about the civic filter at the auto parts shop. The filter they showed me had both the in and the out on the same side of the filter the LTD filter has the in on top and the out on the bottom. I suppose it might be possible to make it work but it was not a direct replacement.