Re: fuel injection and petcocks

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:43 PM 1/31/2000 -0600, dan & ann curcio wrote:
>There is another reason other than repriming your injection system to not let your
>bike run out of gas.  The high pressure fuel pump for the injection uses the fuel
>passing through it for cooling the pump motor.  If you run out of fuel, the pump
>overheats and can burn out.  Now you have a very expensive pump to replace before
>your bike will run again.  This may also be the reason petcocks are not used with
>fuel injection as you could easily run the system dry by forgetting to turn on the
>gas or by not switching to reserve quick enough.

All I ever had to do when the engine stumbled going into reserve was
grab some front brakes.  As reserve was a couple inches on one side of 
the gas tank, hitting the binders sent all the gas sloshing forward,
and some would end up on the non-reserve side.  Plenty of time now to
switch over at one's leisure.


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