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Mail From: "Kathy and Erich Coiner" <(email redacted)>

Mark,

You may be on to something. I'll check float level next.

This evening I made some measurements and pulled the tanks out.

I measured fuel pressure at the carb. It is 2 psi. The shop manual says 48
inches. Inches of what is not specified, but I assume water. 30 inches of
water is approx 1 psi so that checks out.

It took 40 seconds for the pump to fill a 1 quart jar. This was pushing
through the entire line and filter.
The spec is 15 gallons per hour, which is 1 quart per minute. So that
checks okay.

I went ahead an pulled the tanks out because I was seeing some chips in the
filter. The cross over tubes were not blocked in any way. I can see the
coating inside the tanks is flaking off so I am glad that I pulled them out.

Erich

----- Original Message -----
From: <(email redacted)>
To: <(email redacted)>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Not enough go juice for my motor!


> Erich,
> I had the exact same problem on my Harley after the carb had been worked
on.
> It was running out of gas because the float level wasn't correct. The
needle
> was partially filling the seat and not allowing gas to come in quickly
> enough. On a long hill it would run out of gas before I reached the top.
> After a few seconds the bowl would fill again and it would be okay.
That's
> probably the easiest thing to check. If not, it probably is a partially
> plugged fuel line of pump.
> Mark L.