The bike doesn't run well when it's out of fuel.
After filling it with fuel, it continues to run. The fuel pickup is in the front of the tank, I think acceleration causes the fuel to move away from the pickup, this gets air in the line and when that bubble gets to the injectors, the engine dies. I was only able to put a little more than 9 gallons of fuel into the 11 gallon fuel cell. New fuel cell rules for the Iron Butt Rally require the tank to be 80% filled with foam, so that will cut the total capacity down a bit more. It went about 450 miles on 9 gallons, fuel economy is not quite what I'd hoped.
I've wired up a temperature gauge and the lighting for the boost gauge. I added an LED which comes on with the fan to the temp gauge, so it's both a gauge and a light. Yesterday on the commute, the temperature rose to just over 200F, but the fan didn't come on. The temp went that high at three different times, so the gauge seems to indicate everything is normal.
Next change is to add a fuse block with a total of 6 fuses. Three will be wired directly to the battery, the other three through the ignition.
After filling it with fuel, it continues to run. The fuel pickup is in the front of the tank, I think acceleration causes the fuel to move away from the pickup, this gets air in the line and when that bubble gets to the injectors, the engine dies. I was only able to put a little more than 9 gallons of fuel into the 11 gallon fuel cell. New fuel cell rules for the Iron Butt Rally require the tank to be 80% filled with foam, so that will cut the total capacity down a bit more. It went about 450 miles on 9 gallons, fuel economy is not quite what I'd hoped.
I've wired up a temperature gauge and the lighting for the boost gauge. I added an LED which comes on with the fan to the temp gauge, so it's both a gauge and a light. Yesterday on the commute, the temperature rose to just over 200F, but the fan didn't come on. The temp went that high at three different times, so the gauge seems to indicate everything is normal.
Next change is to add a fuse block with a total of 6 fuses. Three will be wired directly to the battery, the other three through the ignition.

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