may have dislodged the "tilt sensor"

 

Thanks....think I'm just going to take it to a mechanic next week & get the once over on it anyway (private sale). But at least now I don't feel like I did some seriously damage.......a clogged filter sounds good compared to what I was envisioning I'll let you guys know what it ended up being once I find out.

 

Get a service manual for your year of bike. Good luck, I hope you get it figured out.

 

Ranger 73 & Jonesee got it right.....THANK YOU ALL !!!!!!!!! So its a customized 2010 soft tail & the Builder had switched out the 1 gas tank with gas gauge for a side by side tear drop 5g tank (2 tanks---no more guage). what I failed to realize was that he also replaced the fuel on/off switch for a petcock!!!!!! Didn't even think to look for it b/c of the bike year....but you guys got me thinking & in the end I only had ~ 1/3 of a tank o gas left so I took another look at the "shut off switch" & sure enoughit was a petcock & when i turned it to reserve......presto fired up
Thanks again....I overlooked a customization---you guys got me to look again

 

 

Pereira;

The reason he put the petcock on was because he removed the fuel guage. That way you have a reserve.

Take a good look at the petcock and make sure you understand which position is the regular setting and which position is the reserve setting.

If you run the bike in the reserve setting, you will run right through reserve and when you run out of fuel, you are out.

It just occurred to me:
You have a fuel injected bike, watch your odometer, you never want to run that bike out of fuel.

Mine is carbed so I usually run it until it dies then switch to reserve. You don't wanna do that with an FI bike.

 

Thanks again & will do. Kinda glad about the petcock..... Originally I was watching the miles & guesstimating ~15mpg & have been neurotic about filling up (except for this time of course)...kinda like the backup insurance of the petcock and mine seems simple enough has "on", "off", &"reserve". I know some have a free flow setting so made sure to look for that. Thanks again..... Your help & advice is appreciated

 

I'm not up on the years that they changed from Carb to EFI, but it never hurts to ask and throw a suggestion out there. So that's why I ask, Hell you never know.

 

No damage to tranny, but something else is wrong. I had a buddies bike who crashed, and broke the clutch, i rode that bike with no clutch and no stopping shifting for almost 20 miles with no clutch pulled in, i popped it into and out of each great with no clutch. That was at 15k miles, he now has 90k on the bike and same tranny, no issues at all. Would not recommend doing that though

 

that's why people think the hd security sucks. it gets blamed for rider error about 99 times out of 100. if it were the security, it would never even turn over, let alone fire.

I certainly hope you're doing better than 15mpg. doing 80mph, uphill, into the wind, in third gear you should do better than 15mpg.....