[GSMacLean]

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Just in case anyone is looking, I've got an '82 Wing tank on eBay right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4559131916

 

[GSMacLean]

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Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a false tank cover or whatever you want to call it, but to anyone who looks at it, it's a gas tank.

 

[GSMacLean]

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Now why didn't I think of that? I ran out of gas on my GSXR (the black bike in the picture to the left) last summer and ended up pushing it 1 1/2 miles up a hill in the summer heat to the nearest gas station. Then I rode home and went to bed.

 

[GSMacLean]

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Silicon Sam wrote:

Yeah, not cool to run out of gas. What happens is you are on the main tank, you sputter, hit the reserve lever and go find a station. Fill up, and the next time it sputters, you are OUT cause you forgot to flip the petcock back to ON when you filled up, it's still on RES. Been there, done that.

Raymond

On my GSXR it had three positions: "P", "R" and something else I don't remember, that I assumed was "Primary" "Reserve" and "Off". Turned out it had an electric fuel pump, and that there WAS no "Off", and "P" in fact meant "Prime" as in "prime the carbs and fill the float bowls after it's been sitting all winter" - and it drew from the reserve portion of the tank. So I ran it around in "P" thinking it was "Primary", andwhen it sputtered and died, I flipped it to "R" for "Reserve" - but it didn't start, because I had already drained the whole tank, including the reserve.

Helps to have a manual for these old bikes once in a while.