Where is the fuel? Lifted fuel tank.

[Messie]

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Get this one: Click me.

You can have 21 or 32 litres fuel reserve if you expand it with the zip. And it's got pockets in the side too, one for oil and one for coolant.

You do know that I believe every word you say about mechanicabubble things, don't you?


I'm going to worry about not having enough room to carry spare coolant now. I've only got a tiddly tank bag

[andrewsmith]

This thread has got silly!




Dave I'm sadly with Andy and get the bus pass.

ill be sympathetic, when I got my bike i knew very little about it, but knowledge is just gathered over time. When I lifted my tank for the first time I expected the tank to be the same size as it looked from the outside rather than the little bit at the back.

At first glance I suppose the heat shield could look like some sort of bag.... but the actual tank is in behind there I assure you...

and I dont think dave needs a bus pass, I would never wish public transport on anyone would just be cruel

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by warrenhewitt10

and I dont think dave needs a bus pass, I would never wish public transport on anyone would just be cruel

haha

Hijack! Dave hows the bike rebuild going?

[5150]

I was in the same boat the first time I lifted my tank to run the wiring for my heated grips, too.

"What the.... where does the fuel go?" Not knowing much about bike internals, I was expecting a more or less flat bottom to the tank - certainly not a dirty great airbox.

Everyone has to start somewhere, innit.

I have to admit, when I collected my curvy (1st bigger bike) from a private seller I took tools and restriction washers with me to fit. I lifted the tank, looked at the hole in the top of the air filter and had to think about it for a few seconds, laughed at myself, fit the washers and pootled home.

The engineering made sense (to stop sloshing), but I do still wonder why they don't hold a bit more, vertical fins creating a cellular system inside a tank would would allow for a much larger capacity.

[yorkie_chris]

There a quite a few bikes with big, flat bottomed, empty tanks. The slosh doesn't seem to do much.

Space under tank is more for packaging reasons, IMO, than to avoid slosh.

if they wanted to stop sloshing they could just use fuel foam like they use in race car bag tanks..... cheep and works well

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Look closer at things before telling people who know more than you that they are wrong... just IMO.

If you look closer you will see that alloy "bag" thing is just a heat shield held onto the bottom of the tank by some little bent clips.

The tank is steel and holds all the fuel.
Inside tank there is a fuel pump which supplies fuel under pressure via a pipe to some throttle bodies.
The airbox does not hold any fuel, it is just a housing to filter and direct air to the throttle bodies.
In the throttle bodies the injectors spray fuel into the air stream to atomise it, it is then burnt in the engine.

Go on howstuffworks then take another look, or go buy a manual.

Thats a bit ridicules, please quote where I say there is fuel in the air filter, and I will personally clap you.