Fuel Taps Question

[Tom Eatman]

For the RGS and SFC tanks longer is better (like a lot of things) due to the shape of the tank. My RGS will go about 22.8 kilometers after switching over. Yes, I found this out the hard way  . Not all but a lot of the reproduction stuff available is slightly different from the originals. Different diameters, different tube and filter lengths, etc... Most of our Laverda parts places have all of this sorted out but if you buy from another scource  do take the time to compare what you get with what you started with.

Tom

 

[Rockitdoc]

Cut the longer inner to the same length as the shorter one. I'd prefer to run out of fuel and switch to reserve than run on half supply for an hour.

So, you don't think you would notice when the first one got starved?

 

[Paddy]

No, not unless you were running flat out for some time.

 

[RCGBOB44]

The inlet tubes inside the filters are the same length as the filters.

If the inlet tubes inside the filters are the same length you will get fuel starvation, they should be shorter.

 

[padlock]

J-E-S-U-S. Two whole pages on a different length of filter!!!!!!!! You old gits need to get out more

      FFF

 

[blab]

It's more serious than you think.
I put some repos in an italian bike,they had the short filters compared to the originals long filters.
I used to get about 50 kms on reserve,went on to reserve on the repos,ran out of fuel in about 5 kms.
Had to push it .

 

[Rockitdoc]

J-E-S-U-S. Two whole pages on a different length of filter!!!!!!!! You old gits need to get out more

      FFF

Our bikes are such finely tuned, well-oiled machines, this was the only thing left to sort. 

....besides, it's cold and snowy outside.....what else is there to do? 

 

[Grant]

RTFM maybe?

 

[Rockitdoc]

RTFM maybe?

Cover to cover, but it leaves a lot of details out.  Not the best. Good thing this forum is available!  :-*

 

[Grant]

 

[sfcpiet]

Cover to cover, but it leaves a lot of details out.  Not the best. Good thing this forum is available!  :-*

Workshop manuals generally do not take into account that dozens of fuckwits un-knowing owners play havoc with the described machines over several decades... that is left over to "restoration manuals". :

Time might be ripe to write one, hey Grant!

piet

 

[Grant]

You're not the first to ask me, but like I don't have enough to do...

 

[Rockitdoc]

Probably could sell a dozen or so.  Retirement secured!

I'll volunteer to help.  I could provide the sections on how NOT to do stuff! 

 

[IAG]

and I can ask a bunch of pointless questions!
Ride
The
Fuckin'
Motorcycle

 

[Rockitdoc]

You're not the first to ask me, but like I don't have enough to do...

I'm lookin' for a nice quiet, warm place to retire in about 10 years.  Good food, wine, nice women.  Willing to work as an apprentice in the right shop.  I have my own screwdriver and an adjustable wrench.  Spain, maybe?

 

[padlock]

go out and by some pingle fuel taps, like what i done.

  FFF

 

[Rockitdoc]

go out and by some pingle fuel taps, like what i done.

  FFF

Can't.  Counting rivets. 

 

[Laverdalothar]

I'm lookin' for a nice quiet, warm place to retire in about 10 years.  Good food, wine, nice women.  Willing to work as an apprentice in the right shop.  I have my own screwdriver and an adjustable wrench.  Spain, maybe?

Though Spain is a great country and spanish people are for sure nice, I'd prefer Italy. But only for maybe 3 months at a time, else I would go nuts with my german expectations of quality, reaction times and organization I guess...  :-[

 

[Grant]

I wouldn't last 3 months in Germany...  :-*

 

[Gerald]

I wouldn't last 3 months in Germany...  :-*

After reading about your bike registration odysseys and the Spanish bureaucracy that you?ve overcome I?m confident that you?d see Germany as a bike registration heaven