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What happened to my reserve?

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by daveflick, Oct 9, 2007.

  1. daveflick

    daveflick Member

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    After I put my tank back on and reattached my petcock, I don't have a reserve. I was cruising down the expressway today and she started to loose fuel so I reached down and flipped over to res.

    Nothin...

    No reserve left. could the stand pipe be clogged? Maybe the petcock is bad? seems strange since it worked fine before I took it off. Seems every time I take something off and repair one problem it causes another. Oh well, gives me something to do when I'm not riding.
     

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    lostboy Well-Known Member

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    The fuel filter may have come loose from the petcock or the wafer seal behind the selector leaver may have shifted.
     
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    RickCoMatic Well-Known Member

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    Lostboy nailed it!

    I don't know what happens to those Plastic Filter Towers that are the filter and reserve fuel height "Shrink" and fall-out of the Petcock Body ... But, that's what they do!

    Making matters worse ... you don't know it happens!

    Well ... until you switch to Reserve when you need it and there's NO Reserve because the Tower is laying off to the side in the tank.
     
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    schmuckaholic Well-Known Member

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    I dunno... as soon as I put an inline filter (similar to above -- on its side), when switching to reserve the bike took a lot longer to stop stumbling than it did before.
     
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    The filter I installed is pretty big and it makes sense that it might take a while to refill if it runs dry. The upside is that I don't have to use prime to get it started in the morning because that bit of go juice in the filter is enough to get her started. That's my theory anyway.
     
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