Gas Reserve
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From: Central Florida
RE: Gas Reserve
ORIGINAL: michaelbarry
Down position should be the regular fuel tank. Turned up position should be reserve.
Down position should be the regular fuel tank. Turned up position should be reserve.
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RE: Gas Reserve
A looonng time ago, I had a metric which was the only bike I had ever used the reserve on as I lived out a ways and did a lot of back roads bombing. I swear to this day that the positions on that petcock were the complete opposite of my first Harley ( a Sporty at the time). Needless to say, I thought that I was switching on to "Reserve" when the sputtering started when I was just a short distance away from my highway exit to where I live now. I WAS on reserve the entire time, as I discovered after I coasted to a nice, quite stop. Lesson learned the hard way on that one. My E-Glide doesn't have a reserve, just the little warning light which I only went down to once to see how much it'd take to fill it up full.
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From: Canton, Michigan
RE: Gas Reserve
ORIGINAL: Sanford...Yup, it's in the down position. I will take the petcoco out of it an make sure the pipes are not reversed.
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RE: Gas Reserve
My fuel position is up and reserve is down..
And it is working as intended.
IF you folks have a reserve (2006 and older carb model bikes) do yourelf a huge favor and run out of the reserve once every couple of weekd for a few miles up and down the road. It'll keep all that crap burned out of there and ensure that you can use it properly.
Glad to hear you were close enough to the house for the Mrs to get you (what would we do without them?!).
And it is working as intended.
IF you folks have a reserve (2006 and older carb model bikes) do yourelf a huge favor and run out of the reserve once every couple of weekd for a few miles up and down the road. It'll keep all that crap burned out of there and ensure that you can use it properly.
Glad to hear you were close enough to the house for the Mrs to get you (what would we do without them?!).
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RE: Gas Reserve
this is my first bike without a reserve petcock, why don`t they put them on the F.I models....Is it like when they stopped putting the kickers on the tranny so you could run a low ( bad)battery another 6 months till it went all the way out and had to buy a new one ( Man I loved the old days , if you had a spark you could kick start you harley )
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From: Sugarland, Tx
RE: Gas Reserve
I almost ran out of gas along the Coast one weekend. It was horrible. There were a bunch of $hit gas stations and all of them were empty! I was freaking out. Finally I found one and put in 4.8 gallons! Since then, I just go get gas whenever I get around 100 miles. Dont want to worry about that crap!
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From: Tucson, Az
RE: Gas Reserve
The fuel switch is confusing. Some people think the long end is the arrow. It's not. The short end has the arrow. If you study it closely I would be willing to bet that you've been riding on reserve not realizing it.
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From: Ft. Myers, Florida
RE: Gas Reserve
While taking my wife's Street Glide for service, I noticed that thelow fuel light was onand the gas gauge was on "E." I made it to the gas station located about two miles from the house.Iput 5.39 gallons of gas in the 5 gallon tank. That was close!
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RE: Gas Reserve
ORIGINAL: whaap
The fuel switch is confusing. Some people think the long end is the arrow. It's not. The short end has the arrow. If you study it closely I would be willing to bet that you've been riding on reserve not realizing it.
The fuel switch is confusing. Some people think the long end is the arrow. It's not. The short end has the arrow. If you study it closely I would be willing to bet that you've been riding on reserve not realizing it.