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Old Aug 31, 2015 | 04:11 PM
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After I gas up and ride to work, my gas tank is empty. How am I losing gas so fast? Where can it be leaking from?
 
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Old Aug 31, 2015 | 04:22 PM
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Are you smelling gas and do you see it leaking anywhere when you are idling......how do your fluids look
 
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Old Aug 31, 2015 | 04:34 PM
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Can't smell or see anything. All fluids look good. Using 93 octane
 

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Old Aug 31, 2015 | 05:01 PM
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How many miles are you riding from fill-up to empty?
 
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Old Aug 31, 2015 | 05:05 PM
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You should be able to see some sort of dried residue (stain) from the gas leak. Get a flashlight and start looking.
 
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Old Aug 31, 2015 | 05:07 PM
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What are you NOT telling us? Do you have an add on tuner or fueler? Has the engine light come on? Have the exhaust tips turned black? When you add together your miles traveled on this tank and your miles to go to empty, what is the total? Have you changed headers and disconnected the O2 sensors? Have you fueled up just before arriving home and compared the fuel level at shut down to what is in the tank the next morning to confirm no seeping leak? Is the engine hard to start when hot? How many miles on the spark plugs? Air filter? How well is the engine running other than apparent high fuel consumption? Are you going by actual fuel added or by fuel gauge indication? How many miles to work?
 
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Old Aug 31, 2015 | 05:23 PM
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Bet you have someone stealing your gas while at work.
 
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