My bike was booked in Riders Cardiff today for the throttle cable recall. On the way down I noticed my fuel light had come on so I called into the Asda station on the way in. "I won't fill it, I'll just put enough in to get home and have a ride later" I thought to myself. Put £17 in then as I replaced the pump I noticed it was black!!! A couple of seconds of self denial then realisation kicked in followed by a tirade of swearing at myself. Anyway, I had RAC cover through Bennetts so I called them. They told me they could drain the fuel for £199 or recover me home if I lived LESS than 10 miles away from where I was stranded. I went for the latter and the lass on the phone informed me as I was exactly 10.5 miles away from home that would be OK. (I must read the policy booklet tonight, that didn't sound right to me) 45 mins later, the Multi is on the back of a truck and I'm on my way home. So when I get home I start stripping the plastics off to remove the tank when I had the idea of syphoning the tank. Unfortunately the hose I had didn't seem to work. It was then I had a brainwave! I removed the tank plastics and stripped off the overflow hose from the nearside and it worked a treat. I got 19 litres out (the taste isn't nice!). Over to the local petrol station, I bought 20 litres and topped the tank up with Premium. Praise be, it started. I left it idling for a while, gave it the odd blip and it's running fine. A little smoky after a blip but fine. I shall ride it tomorrow to use some more fuel then top it off again. It could have been a costly day, but I got away with it! Lesson learnt. I've been riding 30 years and never done that before!!
TT, what I think you've got to watch is the diesel doesn't muck up the cat, unless you don't have one on then that's ok
That makes me feel a little better Filled 'er Up | Ducati Forum Got me worried about me cat now.?!how much does it take to mess it up?
Phew, never done that. Now saying that means I'll go and bloody well do it now. Lift the green one, lift the green one, lift the green one. Now if you had an electric bike you'd have poured fuel all over you and or the bike :Eggonface:
'Fraid I did. It pulled the stuff straight in and cut out immediately-frighteningly quickly. After I drained it and refilled, I then churned it over until it drew the petrol through. Will this have bu@@ered the cat, then? It's in for a service next week.
