ahebron
Registered user
I am feeling right chuffed with myself today. I refitted the tank and got the beast running. Then treated it to a wash.
Before all of this I decided to relocate the famed fuel filter. Now my bike does not have ABS so there is a lovely big space between the battery and alternator/motronic thing. So this had me thinking. I priced a genuine filter at NZ$40 which isn't to bad but I can lay my hands on car fuel filters for under NZ$20 and they are twice the length and 25% more in diameter. So using a short length of din rail (for mounting circuit breakers on) I had lying about and 2x50mm tool clips with heat shrink sleeving over the arms I fabricated a mount for the filter to go between the 2x6mm threaded holes on each side of the big space. The hardest part was fitting the injection rated fuel line onto the fittings, it's tough stuff. All good so I refitted the tank and went to start it up and yes I did the turn ignition on and twist throttle twice but it ran like a bucket of nails and the rh throttle cbale was in its socket. Noticed petrol dripping from up around the pump plate and thought I had damaged the o-ring seal so off with the tank again. It turned out to be a loose pipe clamp on the pump outlet pipe. Put it all back together do the double throttle twist and give it a go on the starter button, fired first time. Felt pretty darn smug after doing that. Sorry no photos as the camera had flat batteries.
Interesting thing was the old petrol filter was dated 1999 and the bike is a 2000 model with 128,000kms on it so either the first owner bought a supply of petrol filters when the bike was purchased or it never had its filter changed. I am going with the latter as the petrol that came out of the old filter was as black as the paint on the bike and has left a nice residue in the jar. Funny thing is my 1995 BMW 318ti car had never had its filter changed when I bought it last year with 186,000kms and it had cooked its pump, the filter was almost solid.
Before all of this I decided to relocate the famed fuel filter. Now my bike does not have ABS so there is a lovely big space between the battery and alternator/motronic thing. So this had me thinking. I priced a genuine filter at NZ$40 which isn't to bad but I can lay my hands on car fuel filters for under NZ$20 and they are twice the length and 25% more in diameter. So using a short length of din rail (for mounting circuit breakers on) I had lying about and 2x50mm tool clips with heat shrink sleeving over the arms I fabricated a mount for the filter to go between the 2x6mm threaded holes on each side of the big space. The hardest part was fitting the injection rated fuel line onto the fittings, it's tough stuff. All good so I refitted the tank and went to start it up and yes I did the turn ignition on and twist throttle twice but it ran like a bucket of nails and the rh throttle cbale was in its socket. Noticed petrol dripping from up around the pump plate and thought I had damaged the o-ring seal so off with the tank again. It turned out to be a loose pipe clamp on the pump outlet pipe. Put it all back together do the double throttle twist and give it a go on the starter button, fired first time. Felt pretty darn smug after doing that. Sorry no photos as the camera had flat batteries.
Interesting thing was the old petrol filter was dated 1999 and the bike is a 2000 model with 128,000kms on it so either the first owner bought a supply of petrol filters when the bike was purchased or it never had its filter changed. I am going with the latter as the petrol that came out of the old filter was as black as the paint on the bike and has left a nice residue in the jar. Funny thing is my 1995 BMW 318ti car had never had its filter changed when I bought it last year with 186,000kms and it had cooked its pump, the filter was almost solid.
