1150 tank size

[jonogs]

Hi

Recently replaced my 1100gs tank with a standard 1150 tank. Is it smaller? My 1100 was 25 litres, I cannot get anywhere near that in the new one? I am also getting less miles per tank? Have I just bent my sender arm?

Cheers

 

[ahutcheon]

The handbook for my 1150 claims 22 litres of usable tank capacity. I don't remember ever squeezing in more than 21, but I probably haven't gone more than 30 miles with the light on.

 

[Paul G (BHT)]

Hi

Recently replaced my 1100gs tank with a standard 1150 tank. Is it smaller? My 1100 was 25 litres, I cannot get anywhere near that in the new one? I am also getting less miles per tank? Have I just bent my sender arm?

Cheers

A bent sender arm will not make the slightest bit of difference as to how much fuel you can get in it. You'll only get 22 litres in bent or not

Your old one wasn't the early plastic one was it....... they are slightly bigger

 

[Packer]

Last year I deliberately ran my 1150 dry most of the final miles being on single track roads, hard on the powere and then hard on the brakes so taht there was plenty of fuel slopping over from the left lobe of the tank.

I tipped in 1 litre from my emergency bottle and then rode about 5 miles to a fuel station. I ssem to remember putting in around 23+ litres more.

 

[Possu]

If your 1100 tank was plastic, they held 24 litres. Later steel 1100 tanks held 22 litres IIRC?

 

[Tsiklonaut]

With holedrill + floater bending mod I get over confirmed 25 litres out of stock 1100/1150/850 GS tanks. Later metal tanks, that is. Older R1100GS plastic tanks have additional 2 litres compared to the newer R1100/1150/850GS metal tanks.

On any of them tanks - the trick is - the last 1.5-2 litres you get out by laying down the the bike on the right hand side, so the last couple of litres of ("useless") left lobe fuel flow over to the right side of the lobe where the fuel sucker is.

It works as an excellent "very last hope" reserve method for me - bike will run empty, lay the bike on the right and you have approx 25-35 kilometres left (with slow 70kph riding) to find a fuel station. This even got me out of Syrian desert

 

[jonogs]

Thanks chaps, I was right that my old tank held 25 litres, and that the new one holds less. Bugger.

My old tank was metal, I was aware that the plastic tanks hold more.

Looks like I will have to make an effort to get the old one fixed.