greenmachine1100
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Good Morning and Happy Sunday to all!
Few months new to me, with 85k miles. Decided to add metal quick disconnects, and change the fuel filter. Tank off and brought it into my kitchen. Had labelled the lines with a Sharpie. Did my thing and happy I got that filter out! It was date stamped 2005. Cut it open and it was gunked grey and brown inside. (may explain my cycles lack of power?)
Put it all back together and replaced all the lines and clamps. So far, so good! Not so good. In my energy and excitement of restoring so many cruddy parts I cleaned off my marks! Going by memory, I think I know which one is the outlet (from filter and pump) and which one is the return (is that the right name?)
I decide to take it down and mount the tank, and worst case scenario, I can key the bike on and see which one spews. (catch it in a funnel and fuel can).
Haven't trimmed the excess tubing from lines from tank, and haven't clamped them back onto the bike's hard plastic lines. There is a about a cup of fuel splashing around in the tank I can hear when I'm moving it. I decide to pour about a half gallon of fuel I've got sitting there. Didn't really think it was enough even to reach the fuel pick up. Lo and behold, the fuel I pour in is just running out my unhooked up/uncompleted fuel lines. BUT, here's the weird part.
That fuel is running out of the line that I THOUGHT was the outlet line. Does that make sense? How did that small amount of fuel I put in go through the pump and fill the filter and then come out? Is this a clue that, that line is the return? Does the pump have a one way valve or anti-siphon valve somewhere in there?
If I hook them up in what I believe is the correct order, but it isn't, will that mess anything up?
It is Sunday, and I decided to take the day off and think about it.
Any ideas/suggestions anyone has to get me out of this predicament would be appreciated.
Few months new to me, with 85k miles. Decided to add metal quick disconnects, and change the fuel filter. Tank off and brought it into my kitchen. Had labelled the lines with a Sharpie. Did my thing and happy I got that filter out! It was date stamped 2005. Cut it open and it was gunked grey and brown inside. (may explain my cycles lack of power?)
Put it all back together and replaced all the lines and clamps. So far, so good! Not so good. In my energy and excitement of restoring so many cruddy parts I cleaned off my marks! Going by memory, I think I know which one is the outlet (from filter and pump) and which one is the return (is that the right name?)
I decide to take it down and mount the tank, and worst case scenario, I can key the bike on and see which one spews. (catch it in a funnel and fuel can).
Haven't trimmed the excess tubing from lines from tank, and haven't clamped them back onto the bike's hard plastic lines. There is a about a cup of fuel splashing around in the tank I can hear when I'm moving it. I decide to pour about a half gallon of fuel I've got sitting there. Didn't really think it was enough even to reach the fuel pick up. Lo and behold, the fuel I pour in is just running out my unhooked up/uncompleted fuel lines. BUT, here's the weird part.
That fuel is running out of the line that I THOUGHT was the outlet line. Does that make sense? How did that small amount of fuel I put in go through the pump and fill the filter and then come out? Is this a clue that, that line is the return? Does the pump have a one way valve or anti-siphon valve somewhere in there?
If I hook them up in what I believe is the correct order, but it isn't, will that mess anything up?
It is Sunday, and I decided to take the day off and think about it.
Any ideas/suggestions anyone has to get me out of this predicament would be appreciated.
not too happy about that. Going to run it around a bit and see what use and vibration do to it. Don't want to just keep on tightening it down. That can just defeat the purpose of the clamp, right? 
