Re: [St] Your fueling yourself

[Neil Lindsey <Neil.Lindsey@xxxxxxx>]

the first fuel sender on my '99 read empty from day one and when I picked it
up to take it home the very first time, the dealer told me that they had put
a minimal amount of gas in the tank -- they were idiots and this was
representative of the service I got from then on (they are now out of
business)

then I got caught up in the leaky syndrome and had to have it replaced twice
(or was it 3 times -- I can't remember now -- must be catching!) before the
problem was finally resolved


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Knowles" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [St] Your fueling yourself


>I also had a very early model. I probably would have been ok had I
> just accepted the lousy accuracy of the design. However buying the
> first red one (first one in was black) at my dealer, we had no way of
> knowing "they're all like that" so being a quality dealer, they
> replaced it under warranty. I probably got to be the guinea pig for
> everything that happened after that too.
>
> The replacement sender (1) had the problem of it being totally
> sporadic rather than just consistently inaccurate. So it got replaced.
>
> The replacement sender (2) had the same problem. At this point
> Triumph realized that they had a problem and stopped replacing
> senders until they got redesigned. So I waited.
>
> Replacement sender (3) came in and got installed. Shortly after that
> it started leaking fuel. Triumph realized that they had turned a
> small problem into a bigger problem.
>
> Replacement sender (4) was installed and since then she's lived
> happily ever after, at least in that regard.
>
> So during the first year, depending on when you bought it the sender:
>
> 1. would read full for a half tank then drop like crazy after that
> 2. would act like Captain Jack's compass, with the needle seeming to
> have a mind of it's own
> 3. would act like a poodle and piss all over your legs
>
> Option #4, that it would grow up and become a useful part of the
> instrumentation sadly never happened.
>
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Jack Hays wrote:
>
>> Actually, the earliest ones were all right on fuel senders.
>> Weasel Dawg and I had the first two sold in the US and ours never
>> leaked or
>> did anything other than occasionally reading full for the first 100
>> miles
>> and then dropping rapidly.
>> At the end of the 99 model run the vendor changed compounds and
>> things went
>> downhill fast. Of course by the time it was found there were
>> thousands of
>> bikes all over the world.
>> It lasted about a year plus as it showed up at varying times.
>> I would not let them replace mine as it was good to go even though
>> they
>> wanted to.
>> Still got it and no leaks. Uh OH! Man,I wish I hadn't said that!
>> We're going through a vendor issue here at work now and it ill
>> reflection
>> us by those outside the walls.
>>
>> If it were me Dirty Dawg I'd just wait until the fuel gauge showed
>> you need
>> fuel, overheat the bike, and then drive off with a full tank of
>> free gas
>> :-)
>> Sorry. At least it didn't leak crossing Engineering Pass in
>> Colorado this
>> time.
>
> Matt Knowles
> Aesthetic Design & Photography - www.aestheticdesign.com - (707)
> 786-4643
>
>
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