Calboy
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The low fuel light comes on at 109 miles on my 2005 Rocket III. If I gas up immediately after the low fuel light comes on, it only takes about three and a half gallons to fill up the tank. First time I was really surprised before reading in here about the problems with the float/sending unit arm.
Simple math tells me that my gas mileage is roughly 35miles/gallon.
Low fuel light came on yesterday but I chose to ignore it. Today I was in a very tight right-hand turn, doing maybe 50mph, and while attempting to downshift the engine suddenly died on me.
I pulled over, turned the ignition off and then about a minute later I turned it back on, hit start, and the engine started right up. Got back on the freeway and took the first exit, trying to make it to a Shell gas station I knew.
Had to make a u-turn at the light and while coming out of the turn it sputtered a couple of times but I managed to keep the engine running as I was rolling into the gas station.
I used a flashlight trying to see how much gas was left in the tank, and all I could see was that the gas level was extremely low. The odometer read 154 miles.
It took 5.1 gallons to fill it up.My understanding is that the tank capacity is 6,5 gallons, so if that's correct it means that it was about 1,4 gallons left in the tank. And if that was the case why was the bike acting like it was out of gas?
After getting gas, the bike ran fine. Took all the sharp turns in the world but I couldn't get it to act up again. This was the first time I experienced this problem.
I run the stock pipes without the cat and according to the dealership the ecu runs the newest map available for the 2005 model. The bike runs good, no complaints whatsoever.
I would like to get some advice as to what you guys thing it might have caused the problem described above.
Simple math tells me that my gas mileage is roughly 35miles/gallon.
Low fuel light came on yesterday but I chose to ignore it. Today I was in a very tight right-hand turn, doing maybe 50mph, and while attempting to downshift the engine suddenly died on me.
I pulled over, turned the ignition off and then about a minute later I turned it back on, hit start, and the engine started right up. Got back on the freeway and took the first exit, trying to make it to a Shell gas station I knew.
Had to make a u-turn at the light and while coming out of the turn it sputtered a couple of times but I managed to keep the engine running as I was rolling into the gas station.
I used a flashlight trying to see how much gas was left in the tank, and all I could see was that the gas level was extremely low. The odometer read 154 miles.
It took 5.1 gallons to fill it up.My understanding is that the tank capacity is 6,5 gallons, so if that's correct it means that it was about 1,4 gallons left in the tank. And if that was the case why was the bike acting like it was out of gas?
After getting gas, the bike ran fine. Took all the sharp turns in the world but I couldn't get it to act up again. This was the first time I experienced this problem.
I run the stock pipes without the cat and according to the dealership the ecu runs the newest map available for the 2005 model. The bike runs good, no complaints whatsoever.
I would like to get some advice as to what you guys thing it might have caused the problem described above.
