this klr starts but won't go (previously)

[pwachaser]

Greetings from San Francisco, Just bought a new 2003 KLR650. This was after lurking around this group for a few months. Trying to keep it under 4,000 RPM. One dumb question: How do you know when to stop putting gas into the gas tank? I saw this sticker on the tank and I didn't want to fill it up too far, but wanted to get a good amount of fuel in the tank. Any suggestions. Thanks for all the info while trying to decide if this is what I wanted to buy. Jeffrey Rea

[Keith Saltzer]

Greetings San Francisco, from the North Bay, I fill my tank, and always have on all my bikes, up to the tip tip tippy top. Some guys have said that filling it up when your sitting on it, with the bike sitting up straight, allows you to get more fuel into the tank. I tested that theory several times, by filling it up to the edge of the tank, while its on the side stand, and then sat the bike up straight. You can not get any more fuel in there, sitting the bike straight up. Besides, if you fill the bike while sitting on it, it's a bit harder to do, and it's a whole lot easier to soak your crotch with the nice and cold, flammable liquid. Just fill the sucker up, turn the petcock off of reserve, reset the trip meter, and get on and RIDE! MrMoose A8 (Barbie and Ken special)

--- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "pwachaser" wrote: > Greetings from San Francisco, > > Just bought a new 2003 KLR650. This was after lurking around this > group for a few months. Trying to keep it under 4,000 RPM. One > dumb question: How do you know when to stop putting gas into the gas > tank? I saw this sticker on the tank and I didn't want to fill it > up too far, but wanted to get a good amount of fuel in the tank. > Any suggestions. > > Thanks for all the info while trying to decide if this is what I > wanted to buy. > > Jeffrey Rea

[Guy B. Young II - COG Tech. Ed.]

Keith, The Calif. bikes have an evaporative emissions cannister installed in their system. Too much fuel in the tank will overflow into the cannister and it becomes fuel logged; the bike will run like crap if this happens. In this case, more (fuel) is not better. The manual warns against filling Calif. bikes to the tippy top. This can also happen if the bike is dropped and lands on its side. The fix is to remove the cannister and drain out the fuel. Guy A16 At 05:22 AM 8/31/03 -0000, Keith Saltzer wrote:

>Greetings San Francisco, from the North Bay, > >I fill my tank, and always have on all my bikes, up to the tip tip >tippy top. Some guys have said that filling it up when your sitting >on it, with the bike sitting up straight, allows you to get more fuel >into the tank. I tested that theory several times, by filling it up >to the edge of the tank, while its on the side stand, and then sat >the bike up straight. You can not get any more fuel in there, >sitting the bike straight up. Besides, if you fill the bike while >sitting on it, it's a bit harder to do, and it's a whole lot easier >to soak your crotch with the nice and cold, flammable liquid.

[darrener1948]

Thanks to everyone who replied. You were right, almost. It wasn't the side-stand safety switch, but it was the adjustment on the clutch lever safety. I couldn't believe that a little bit of clutch lever adjustment makes the difference between go and no go. Anyway good to be going again, thanks all.