braided fuel line

[gregost]

just to have them look over my 93 KLR 650 and make any maintenance recommendations without trying to gouge me..

[Donald Dickerson]

Alcohol and plastic often don't mix well, though Kawasaki says the KLR will handle ethanol. As to your mileage, whatever percentage of your gas is ethanol, figure the loss of the same percentage of typical MPG. If it's 10% ethanol and you usually get 50MPG, expect 45MPG. My KLR runs about 56MPG on gasoline, but 10% ethanol produces about 50MPG. Don --- Hedrek wrote:

> > There was some talk on the Concours list once about > fuel formulas dissolving petcock parts. My petcock > melted, more or less, at about 35,000 miles. Might do > the same to other "rubber" parts that once held up > with plain gasoline. > > Hedrek > ABQ > > > > > > --- takes2serious wrote: > > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Krgrife@... > > wrote: > > > > > > As I have posted before, I have used the small > > VisuFilter bronze > > element > > > type in all my bikes for many years. In the KLR I > > had some > > problems of this > > > type until I switched to BigCee's manual petcock > > and then they all > > such issues > > > went away. I have been in temps above 110f in the > > past two weeks > > at high > > > speeds with no problems. I have really come to > > think that fuel > > supply problems > > > are a result of some sort of deterioration of the > > spring or > > diaphragm in the > > > vacuum petcock. > > > Kurt > > --- > > > > I long ago installed Big Cee's manual petcock, so > > that's not my > > problem. I'm hoping it's related to my fuel line, > > but I also need to > > check to make sure there isn't water in my gas. > > > > I've lost about 20% of my fuel milage on all three > > of my bike, and it > > happened all at once, about three months ago. I > > re-fuel at the same > > gas station consistently (one of the big names), and > > I'm beginning to > > wonder if they made a major gas reformulation as a > > result of the MTBE > > ban and other issues. > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >

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