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I just put 4.221 gallons of gas in my PC!
Written by yankeesmuggler on 9/27/2010 at 07:28 pm

I turst my gauge on this and my previous PC800. This is the first bike
I ever had with a gauge and I think it's great. I have found both
bikes to have consistently accurate gauges and each time the needle is
in a specific location I always find it takes the same amount of fuel
to fill up the tank. This is not to say the gauge as it comes from
Honda reads where we think it should read based on the fuel gauge
graphics, but I have not found it to vary over time. I did do the fuel
gauge mod to my current PC800, but that only makes the needle line up
with the graphics, its accuracy is still the same.

Are others having wildly fluctuating fuel gauge meter readings from
fill up to fill up? I've never heard of this in the 12 years I've been
on this list and a PC800 owner.

Tim Davies
Seneca Falls, New York 13148
'98 Honda Pacific Coast "Yankee Smuggler II"
"Yankee Smuggler I" (Retired at 124,000 mi.)

IPCRC #4 : AMA #688662
"The ride is the objective, the destination is the excuse!"


On Sep 27, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Mark Miller wrote:

> You know, I've skipped this thread even though it's been running a
> while, but
> while yes, we should expect a gas gauge to work as advertised, such
> is not
> usually the case in the 2-wheeled world. In fact, I don't think
> anybody trusts
> the gauge on any MC or scooter.
> I know the gauge on my '90 looks empty when it reaches the half-
> empty mark. I
> do what I've always done on motorcycles: set the trip and look at
> the mileage.
> Somewhere around 150 miles, I need to find a gas station.
> I could look into the files on the site and bend the sender down to
> the right
> level but so far, it's just not worth the trouble.
>
> And I've never run dry.

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