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Tourer
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Grand Cane, LA | Has anyone had a problem with getting the gas tank truly full. Seems like lately I've had to rock the bike side to side a lot to get the air from the other side to come up so I can get the tanks full. I've tried to see if there was anything blocking the crossover tube on top of the tanks, but haven't found anything. It's getting kind of annoying when it takes way too long to fill this thing up. I can watch 2 bikes fill up before I can ever get mine full and then when I get a mile down the road, I open the gas cap and it looks like it will hold another gallon. |
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Cruiser
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Rhode Island | I found that keeping a slow steady fill rate right from the beginning works good for me; filling too fast can trap air and I would get what you described. It's been 3 months since I put gas in so if we can get rid of the snow, ice, sand and salt I'll be happy with spending a little longer at the pumps.
Ride safe,
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Cruiser
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Quad Cities, IL | It usually takes me twice as long too...but that's because I'm putting in twice the gas! Remember, it's a 6 gallon tank.  Grant it I have never put in more than 5.0 gal at once but my riding chums are usually toping off their rides with considerably less. |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, Va | agree thus far, bigger tank than most cruisers and a slow, steady fill will get the job done. I put my left foot on the floor board and often grap the left grip and push down and pull toward me a little, and get it a shake now and again. That leaves me single handed to do the job but that's no great task. Once I'm done, I put the cap on and never take it off again until the next time I need to fill up. Enjoy your ride and don't worry with a few onces of gas, unless of course that's all you have left....
Ride hard, ride often, ride safe... |
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Cruiser
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Midlothian, Va. | Never been a problem for me because the old bladder gives out long before the tank needs refueling. I hate you younger guys who can go tank to bladder. |
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Ruskin, Fl | 1+ on slow fill. I got 5.94 gallons in one day when I first got the bike. Bike shut off when I put it on the side stand. Now I look for a gas station as soon as the low fuel light comes on. When the light comes on I get about 5 gallons in. |
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Cruiser
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| Biscuit,
Granted, you are old.... but not THAT old! lol  |
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Cruiser
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Midlothian, Va. | wrr1home - 2011-03-04 9:11 AM Biscuit,
Granted, you are old.... but not THAT old! lol Well Bill me and the prostate are both 66.
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Puddle Jumper
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| Try filling up with a Crossbow. My friend has one and the most he can get into the tank once the fill light comes on is 3.5 gallons.
On our way to Sturgis last summer we were stopping every 140 miles for him to fill up. |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, Va | Interesting, I wonder why that is? It seems sitting level one could get it full rather easy. I also understand they have to change out the triple tree as a trike and I wonder if that makes a difference in fore or aft pitch that may make it difficult to fill, or could it be an issue with the individual trike? |
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Visionary
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| The rake of the triple trees allows the bike to steer easier. I think if Vic would have put the left tank a inch lower then the right there would be no problem.
What the heck we have more time then money and if it takes 3 minutes longer to fill the tank does that really hurt. Or do you have to get home and watch tv |
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Tourer
Posts: 562
SC, Bluffton | I have never had my gauge register all the way full. I fill up slowly the last half
so the gas can level out to the opposite sides tank. I only stand on the right
side of the bike, and I an amazed I still have burnt myself, or melted anything
on the muffler that way. All is good.
Herb |
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Tourer
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Grand Cane, LA | Well when I first got the bike, I would ride till the needle hit the bottom mark and it would take about 4.9 gallons to fill it, but it didn't seem to take as long as it does now when I try to fill it when the low fuel first comes on. I'm wondering if I should try to pull the lower hose and see I might have something in that line that might be slowing the transfer between the tanks. It's not that I'm in a big hurry to fill this thing but it does take away time from riding. I'd rather be on the road than on the side of it. Places to go and people to see! |
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Visionary
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Memphis | rottsr4u2 - 2011-03-04 9:47 AM Try filling up with a Crossbow. My friend has one and the most he can get into the tank once the fill light comes on is 3.5 gallons. On our way to Sturgis last summer we were stopping every 140 miles for him to fill up. That's an interesting quirk. I remember in the early days when guys would try to fill up the Vision without putting it on the kickstand and letting it lean. They would usually come up about a gallon short. The Vision was designed to be filled while leaned over and the Crossbow Trike takes the lean out of the equation. Unless Lehman/Victory comes up with a mod, the Crossbow will never top off right. Something else to make me go "Huh...". |
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Tourer
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Woodland Hills, CA | I just take my time filling the tank, and have never had a problem. It takes a little longer, but I am always able to fill the tank to the top, and I seem to be getting the full 6 gallons (of course, I have never run the tank try, so there is no way to be sure).
And like some others, my low fuel warning light consistently comes on with about 1 gallon left. |
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Iron Butt
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, WI | The venting could be better. I'm never sure if it's full. |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 23
| I just pull up kickstand down, slow fill and enjoy everyone looking at the Vision as I watch their expressions through my Full Face Mirrored Visor helmet. Have gotten it completely full only twice.....and that goes a LOOOOnnggg way. So enjoy.
But they could fill up better / evenly |
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Visionary
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San Antonio, TX | Filling up the fuel tank is one way that the designers of the Vision teach the owners patience.
From the Frantics "Ti Kwan Leep"
Ed Gruberman: Yeah, uh, no disrespect or nothin', but, like, uh, how long is this gonna take?
Teacher: Ti Kwan Leep is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon.
Ed Gruberman: So like, what, an hour or so?
Teacher: No, no, we have not even begun upon the path. Ed Gruberman, you must learn patience.
Ed Gruberman: Yeah yeah yeah, patience. How long will that take?
Teacher: Time has no meaning. To a true student, a year is as a day.
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Tourer
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Grand Cane, LA | Leave it up to you Radioteacher to find a Chinese proverb for this. LOL! Too bad I half Japanese not Chinese! |
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Cruiser
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Edmonton Alberta, Canada | I have no issue as long as I have 1/2 tank my buddies need to fill before me! Next time check just how much you put in when it bubbles up....less than half a gal.......not really a lot of mile differance. |
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Tourer
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Goldsboro, NC | My fuel gauge has stopped reading more than half full. I fill the thing up, ride for a hundred miles, THEN it starts winding down.
This is not tragic, but it IS disconcerting. I want my baby to be perfect.
Anyone got an answer other than "new sender unit, $600" ?
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Fiiling the gas tank