Jay, thanks for the reply, that's what I needed to know.
Gary, thanks for the info, interesting to know, but since I'm a street rider, not a racer like you, I don't want to lose reserve functionality.
where do you get these from?
I got the filter from my local independent bike shop, they were in the Motovan catalog, I do't know if that's just a Canadian supplier, maybe it doesn't help you.
Jay, you mention how your bike acts funny when the fuel is low. Before I installed the filter, with a bog stock bike, when my fuel level started getting low, but way before reserve should have been needed, the bike would lose power and start acting like it needed reserve, when I switched to reserve, the problem went away. I assumed the petcock was getting tired, and I'm planning on replacing it, but I believe you have said you run a Pingle petcock, so are you saying you still have this problem with a pingel, or have I misunderstood you?
Steve
Motovan is a Canadian only supplier. What makes you think that you should not have been close to going on reserve?? Does is not make logical sense that if switching the bike to reserve and the problem goes away YOUR LOW ON FUEL !!!!!!! Obviously you don't know the inner workings of a fuel pick up, Petcocks DON'T get tired!! Not in that way anyways. They are simply 2 pipes of different heights in the bottom of the fuel tank and a valve that switches between the 2. When the bike start to run out of gas on the higher of the 2 pipe you switch it over the the lower of the 2 pipes and proceed on your way. With a 400 I would find a gas station soon as you have about 3.8 l of fuel left. On a stock Bandit you can run anywhere between 160 to 240km before hitting reserve and this all depends on the kind of riding your doing
First of all, THANK YOU for pointing out what I obviously don't know. Your attitude is extremely helpful.
Since the petcock is simply 2 pipes of different heights in the bottom of the fuel tank and a valve that switches between the 2, the vacuum line that goes to the petcock is obviously a figment of my imagination, and it is impossible that the amount of fuel pressure above the petcock influences how fully the aging, possibly stiffening diaphragm opens as the head pressure of the fuel decreases.
I need to switch to reserve when I have about a half tank of fuel left. This is what makes me think I'm not "LOW ON FUEL !!!!!!!"
