I went 178 miles this morning and still had 35 miles left in the tank. Thats the lowest I have run it so far but is the miles left what you have till you hit reserve or is it the point to where you will be walking? I havent had my fuel gauge flash like most bikes do when you get low.

Every zx14 may be different , but on my bike when the display starts flashing empty I have a little over a gallon left in the tank. How far that will get you depends on your mods and speed and weight.

I bought a tank with the float still in it. Accurate little piece. Detailed arc like the fuel/water bars, reminds me. [Don't let ww hear that]

Yeah, so I tried to shoot a close up and it was too much of a blur. I gave up, threw it back in the tank. I wanted to show worroll the detailed gauge. Here is what I did. I positioned the main body plate horizontal to a panel on the sliding garage door. Watched the float in the high position, then swing to the low position.

I'm not in the position at the moment to go out to the garage, and try hooking that up to the bike's harness, watch the float move, see how much is left in the tank when I can level the tank on the sliding door channels, move the bike in position so as to snap together the float. I want it near the tank, so I can get an idea how much you can draw a horizontal line to view how much is below the float on the empty range?

Give me a couple of days. Why I didn't take the camera to it, waking out the steps anyway. Here, let me slap myself where I can extend my loop without stopping for gas. I'd like to know that too.

You haven't dropped low enough for the display to flash.It WILL flash....you'll have 1.1 gallons left(reserve)...whatever that works out to be on your bike(mileage wise).178+35...sounds pretty normal.Somewhere in that window,yer gonna get a flashing display.If yer burnin a lot of fuel at the flashing point,ya best get to a station pretty pronto.I hit the flash point....went another 20 miles or so,pulled in.Filled er up-she took 5.5 gallons.

* Last updated by: blue07 on 4/28/2010 @ 4:29 PM *

178 miles is normal? I do good to get 150 out of a tank. Must be doing something wrong. I will admit to not letting fuel lvls getting all that low normally. Bike is too heavy to push if I get it wrong.

Ron

I've ran out of fuel twice with my 14, once in 08 and then again in 09, both times in VT.

AAA is your savior and your riding buddies will be amused with the story for a few weeks.
Both times I got less than 25 miles with the light on but my bike is geared low and I just
kept pushing it hard on both occasions grinding in 2nd and 3rd gear through some twisties,
assuming a gas station is somewhere near by.

* Last updated by: masszx14 on 4/28/2010 @ 5:26 PM *

mine has 1.4-1.5 gallons left when the display starts flashing. been down to it a bunch of times

I think the on board computer is accurate in given the miles left before running out totally. The problem is when you hit the LOW FUEL, that miles remaining reading disappears, so you have to remember what it was reading before. I figure there is about 1.1 gal. left and I may have another 38 to 40 miles before pushing the big load.

Mine was flashing when I fired her yesterday, I let her warm up then headed out to my regular gas stop about 15 miles away. When I hit the 4 lane a wahoo decided to play around so I took a quick run up to about 160 and dusted him. Still made it to the station and it took 5.4 gallons to fill up.

there is a way that you push the mode and reset buttons to get you display to come back up once its starts flashing i'll have to look it ip and post for those that don't have a owners man. i'v used it and what happens is a red light will be displayed on the dash I forgot which one turn sig or something any way i was not happy with the fuel low flashing thing so i read up on it problem ssolved ...

* Last updated by: xxxses on 4/29/2010 @ 7:31 PM *

interesting, please do post

I could not get the gauge to blink. I had to key cycle each float move. Bottom lining of the tank, once I set the float to empty, there is the belly that holds what they calc is 38 miles left once the tank hits empty. Blinking, I don't know?

I might repeat myself when I go to Monster's thread and his fuel pump. If mine is still running fine, prime is a touch over 120cc's of fuel, key on ~ she cycles ~ she shuts off, now check what was filled in the beaker. If I had to guess, maybe 5 more cc's for a total of approx. 125cc's primed.

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Very impressive. If you think you ran out of gas, only use this as a try, you have yards to go. This bike was sitting on the center stand, tank propped. Once I thought the tank was empty, I kept cycling the key. I pulled out so much more, I don't thing there was more than 2 maybe 3 ounces of fuel left. If you have the flat style fuel pump without the hump, this pump would suck up the rest as well as the sunk pump that can get every corner. Either way, there seems to be some left as long as you can get a prime or more out of it.

The float gasket leaks. This is one fat, square seal. Around the hole, they raise that area like they molded an o-ring around it, kind of sunk it 2/3rds down so this O-rise is crushed around the hole on both sides. And since it flattens only so much, they have metal bands in the gasket so you don't squeeze it out when you tighten the bolts. I may have to order a new one. Thing reared it leaking head, as I topped off the gas tank. Better now then BBQ you later on the barbie.

Once it starts flashing fuel empty just hold the mode button it will stop flashing and turn on red light you will have normal display