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Please list the steps required to get the tank off my '08 Varadero. I don't have access to a manual.
If someone would like to email me the pages from a manual that covers this my email address is bonussigns@shaw.ca
Thanking you in advance,
Rick -
Think Pokemi just ask the same question how to remove the tank.
http://www.vci-forum.com/index.php?topic=409 -
Please list the steps required to get the tank off my '08 Varadero. I don't have access to a manual.
Email sent.. Only one page, not sure how it'll come through.
If someone would like to email me the pages from a manual that covers this my email address is bonussigns@shaw.ca
Thanking you in advance,
Rick
...and as is mentioned in the other thread the shut off valves do not have much resistance to turning and if you just look at them wrong they may open and spill fuel all over the place. -
Hi Rick,
Not the most experienced here but here you go:
0 Empty the tank or at least ensure that it has as little gas as possible, the more gas the heavier and difficult to move
1 Take the seat off
2 Unbolt the lower fairing
3 Unbolt the upper fairing bolts to the tank
4 Remove the tank lower bolts (the ones under the seat)
5 Close the 2 taps (1 on each side)
6 Make dam sure these 2 are in the off position exactly, any error there and gas will spill
7 Remove the 2 upper tank bolts
8 Unplug the gas hoses to the taps
9 Lift the tank a bit from below and remove the 3 breather hoses. I suggest you unplug the smaller one from the tank and the other two which are the same size, one from the tank and the other leave it on the tank and unplug it from the left side of the engine where it has a connector, that way you cannot get them wrong.
10 Remove the 2 electric cables to the fuel level sensor on the lower right side of the tank (Mark the cables so you know how they go back on unless you would like to repeat my glorious mistake with these) - Thanks to Skye for this one.
11 Get a mate to open a bit the two top fairing sides beside the tank
12 Lift the tank and remove it carefully not to scratch it
13 Put the tank over a plank or something to keep the tank from resting on the taps
14 You are done
Hope this helps.
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*hehe* Like the number 10
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Thank you for all your replies fellas, exactly what I was looking for.
Big thumbs up for this site!
Rick in Cranbrook, BC, Canada -
Not that I have done it many times, but in point 11 I "use to" draw a blanket or sheet over
the tank before removing it to avoid scratches, and the same when mounting it again. -
I warned you that's why I'm laughing and my tip wasn't concealed.*hehe* Like the number 10
Yep, got to love that one... I still do not know if they are right or wrong.... I should find out soon got 270KM of the full tank I put after changing the air filter so in a few KM I will be a really happy person seeing the reserve light come up or, I will be by the side of the road with an empty tank asking for someone to bring gas....
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I take it that if the wires are the wrong way round, you don't get the low fuel warning light come on then. got me thinking if mine are on the right way round now.
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Moral of story is never rely on low fuel light --always work on trip meter --fill
up to brim then reset trip meter then start looking for fuel after about 160 miles then fill up again
simples !!!!
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Or MK1. 300km
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then again, it don't matter which way round they are, its only a glorified on switch.
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then again, it don't matter which way round they are, its only a glorified on switch.
I fully agree with this.
It´s just a swich, and a swich doesn´t care which way the power runs.
The way to check the sensor is to disconnect the wires and connect them with a jumper-wire. Then the light should
come on (with ignition on), and conversely, disconnecting the jumper-wire the light should go out. Doing this, the
jumper-wire is the switch, just as the sensor.
And if it was important which connection was which, then they would have been market or had a one-way
connector (after all, it is a Honda ).
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then again, it don't matter which way round they are, its only a glorified on switch.
I fully agree with this.
It´s just a swich, and a swich doesn´t care which way the power runs.
It's actaually a Thermistor (a temperature sensitive resistor) that changes resistance when it's no longer covered in fuel.
I have no idea how it copes with changes in ambient temperature. I suspect that there must be a similar thermistor in the ECU that provides a reference.
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You´re right SB, I just looked it up in Haynes and concluded that the way it should be tested indicated a switch.
But after all, a Thermistor will act as a switch in this case, turning the light on and off as it is a temperature
variable resistor (low resistance = current flow, high resistance = (nearly) zero current flow). And as the switch,
a resistor don´t care about the direction of the current.
I´m not sure whether it´s a PTC- or a NTC- thermistor, but I think it is a NTC, which means that low temperature is
equal to high resistance = no current flow, bulb doesn´t light (because the thermistor is cooled by the petrol). And
high temperature is equal to low resistance = current flow, bulb lights (because the thermistor will heat up in the
free air above the petrol). But, to be sure, I´ll have to do some reseach and measurement in the garage one day
(it´s the same on the Africa Twin and I have an extra tank for that one, with to level sensors ).