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re: Do I have a fuel sender problem?



>  From: Dan Wolf <d.wolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 08/10/2000 17:42:

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>  Near the right side foot peg, there are two rubber tubes, coming from the 
>  fuel tank, I assume.  Today at lunch, I noticed that one of them was 
>  leaking gas - just enough to create a few drips on the ground, but the end 
>  of the rubber tube was wet (about the bottom 1/2 inch) with gas.  I had 
>  only ridden 20 miles or so on a recent fill-up, so I wonder if the heat and 
>  full tank was causing some moisture to escape?   (I fill the tank to just 
>  below the opening... not actually rising up into the opening toward the cap)

	Probably not fuel sender. The tubes are there to vent excess, so it's
probably just the fuel expanding in the heat. When I've had fuel sender
problems, it's always on the left side, just in front of the sidestand.

FWIW,

	"Jedi Dawg"  Jim Huber
	'00 blue ST  "Rhiannon"
	Spring, Texas, USA

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