New to the forum here and I have a question about gas caps on my softail custom.

I am looking to get a new set and see in the J&P cycles mag the sets only have the right side vented. Do both need to be vented caps or is one vented side fine?

Thanks in advanced.

 

no,tanks are vented to each other with vent tube under dash

 

Sorry but I may be ignorant about the model bike you have but isn't one side where your fuel gauge is at or does that not apply to your bike?

 

I think I might know what you are getting at. You might be wondering what to do with the gas gauge side of the bike since it doesn't have a screw in fitting. I was wanting to put on a set of matching caps from RSD on my bike. I was stuck but RSD recently came out with matching gas gauge side caps that press in like the fuel gauge. The question I have now is will my miles remaining counter still work without a fuel gauge attached to it.

http://www.rolandsands.com/products/...-Cap-Black-Ops

 

Miles to empty should still work as it goes off of sending unit, not gas gauge I believe

 

Cool. Thanks for the reply. I might have to bump that mod up the list then. I like most of RSD's stuff but the caps are one of the few things that are actually affordable for me.

 

I have been looking at the RSD caps as well. I will probably go with the RSD gear black ops caps for my Lo. I think that their contrast cut caps are just a bit to much silver showing for my bike.

 

The Blackline doesn't have a gauge, so I can only use the miles remaining counter. Should work the same, assuming they are the same year.

 

I have just found that it won't work if you just remove the guage and put the dummy in its place

I had to remove the guage part from the original one & conect it back up. Then you can drop it into the space before putting the dummy cap over it




Hope this helps

 

I took the gas gauge off and made my own compression fitting. It works great. The only thing is the miles to empty function won't work. I use the trip meter and fill up every 150 miles or so. I think if I find the right resistance module I can get it to work. Oh yeah, your low fuel icon stays on all the time. I thinks it's worth it to get rid of the foul looking gas caps they put on.