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Started up my '95 SS/SP this morning and noticed that it took more coaxing than usual to get it to idle.
Rode around the neighborhood for a few minutes and found that while the engine ran, it would bog a bit when I'd whack open the throttle or shift into second.
After about 5 minutes, my low fuel light came on, so I went and got some gas and the problems disappeared.
I ended putting about 3.5 gallons in the tank.
My question is, is this normal? Seems like I still had a fair amount of fuel in the tank to be experiencing bogging issues. Is the low fuel sensor something that goes bad or needs calibration? It was a cool morning so I'd assume the light would come on even earlier than normal.
One thing is that my bike has FCRs installed by the PO. I was checking out the fuel lines and I noticed that the return line from the carbs just goes straight back to the tank -- no restrictor or anything. Is this normal? Just wondering if there's something that's supposed to be inline there. (Incidentally, it makes my petcock pretty useless, as fuel just pours out thru the return line!)
Rode around the neighborhood for a few minutes and found that while the engine ran, it would bog a bit when I'd whack open the throttle or shift into second.
After about 5 minutes, my low fuel light came on, so I went and got some gas and the problems disappeared.
I ended putting about 3.5 gallons in the tank.
My question is, is this normal? Seems like I still had a fair amount of fuel in the tank to be experiencing bogging issues. Is the low fuel sensor something that goes bad or needs calibration? It was a cool morning so I'd assume the light would come on even earlier than normal.
One thing is that my bike has FCRs installed by the PO. I was checking out the fuel lines and I noticed that the return line from the carbs just goes straight back to the tank -- no restrictor or anything. Is this normal? Just wondering if there's something that's supposed to be inline there. (Incidentally, it makes my petcock pretty useless, as fuel just pours out thru the return line!)