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Road Warrior
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From: "Old Hangtown" Placerville Ca.
Cool man, lookin forward to seeing everything installed!!
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I have a lift kit I made for my bike but have hesitated putting it on until I understand the net effect on my fuel gage.
Road Warrior
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From: "Old Hangtown" Placerville Ca.
I love how the tank lifts look with the Rocker. I don't quite understand what it does to the fuel indicator. Does it make you think you are on empty when there is still plenty of gas, or do you run out of gas when you think you still have some?
I have a lift kit I made for my bike but have hesitated putting it on until I understand the net effect on my fuel gage.
I have a lift kit I made for my bike but have hesitated putting it on until I understand the net effect on my fuel gage.
Last edited by Rocker B; Jan 19, 2017 at 11:19 PM.
The tank lift is from CHopperstyle LLC. 2"
I have noticed the same that the fuel gauge reads lower sooner, Normally the guage works with a little floater, if you tip the tank back it will read less earler but there still is enough fuel in to go to the 300km range you should get (which I dit once and filled ith with 18.5ltrs) this was before the tank lift.
I will have to see (try?) and do a ride till m/t tank, see how much km I get out of it now. Although this will have to wait a few months until I get all my parts back!
Robert
I have noticed the same that the fuel gauge reads lower sooner, Normally the guage works with a little floater, if you tip the tank back it will read less earler but there still is enough fuel in to go to the 300km range you should get (which I dit once and filled ith with 18.5ltrs) this was before the tank lift.
I will have to see (try?) and do a ride till m/t tank, see how much km I get out of it now. Although this will have to wait a few months until I get all my parts back!
Robert
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I love the look so I guess I'm going to have to give it a try. I'll try to run a full tank, note the miles, and do it again after. It's good to know if range is affected as well as understanding the changes to the gages.
Road Warrior
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From: "Old Hangtown" Placerville Ca.
Ya, some day when I'm close to empty I'll carry a bottle of gas and run it out, and see how many miles less per tank I'm getting now, and then check how much less gas it takes to fill the tank then it did before, that will tell me how much gas is not getting picked up and used (because of the lift)....I have run out of gas a couple times before installing the lift, both times at around 225 miles +/-
Last edited by Rocker B; Jan 21, 2017 at 01:28 AM.
Road Warrior
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From: Cranbourne, VIC Australia
I'm running a 1.5 lift on the front, and a half inch on the back of my tank, and I did run it out on purpose to check the mileage afterwards because I noticed myself filling up more..... It was subconscious, I knew the gauge and light were off, but I kept stopping early, because I was a pansy, my mileage was identical +/- 10 miles of so to what it was beforehand. Now with a 2" lift, maybe it's affected a tad more, but I bet it isn't too much..
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Wouldn't it be possible to extend the intake hose/line to the fuel pump or swap it for a slightly longer one to get to the bits of fuel trapped at the rear of the tank?
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Road Warrior
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From: Cranbourne, VIC Australia
I'd bet you could either extend the pickup tube, or change the pickup screen out for an absorbent pad style pickup, tor get everything last drop, but I honestly don't know if the cost or effort is justified.
Road Warrior
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From: "Old Hangtown" Placerville Ca.
The problem is that the fuel exits the tank at the bottom left side, but the cross-over line is at the front of the tank. When the front of the tank is raised 2" higher than the rear, and the fuel level drops below the cross-over line, it cant run uphill on the right side of the tank, so some gets trapped there . I think the only way you could utilize all the gas would be to install a cross-over line at the rear of the tank, which wouldn't be easy, if even possible.
Last edited by Rocker B; Jan 23, 2017 at 02:06 AM.