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Old August 2nd, 2022, 12:32 AM   #1
Bob KellyIII
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Name: Robert
Location: Weed, California.
Join Date: Jul 2021

Motorcycle(s): 2012 Kawasaki Ninja 250R, 2021 CSC TT250, 1977 Triumph Bonneville 750cc,2001 Honda XR650L.

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My gas gauge quit working !

I went out to the 2012 250R Ninja and fired it up the other night and noticed right away I was out of gas and the fuel warning light was on....
this gave me no little scare as I had repaired the vacume petcock a few months back ! I thought "oh no the crank is probably full of gas !"
but upon checking the oil level it was right where it should be.... i thought Hummmm !
....
the Ninja started in her usual way full choke and it fired right up and idled slow
and slowly picked up BOTH cylinders and gained RPM to about 3k RPM and I thin backed off the choke at which time it dropped down to around 800 RPM
a bit slow but when she is warm it idles around 1000 rpm.
all this time the out of fuel warning light was on and gas gauge reads zero
..... I checked the gas tank and it's got about 1/2 to 3/4 of a tank of gas
so either the wires to the sending unit got disconnected or a fuze blew or something.... it worked great when I parked it a month or so ago !!! ....
but I do have cats and they do crawl around and through things I suppose they could well have pulled the wire off the tank !
....I got it in the shop now so I will probably start tearing it down again !
.....
Bob
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