• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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2009 SM610 reserve fuel cap.

jimmyc

jimmyc

Husqvarna
AA Class
I need some help guys.
Been trying to see what my fuel range is .
After the fuel lite comes on i've ridden 20-40-miles , and never had to turn on the reserve tank , UNTIL yesterday . Cruising down the interstate, and had to turn on the reserve, got ONLY 5 miles before I ran out of gas . My buddy towed me to the next exit . it took 3.1 gals to fill it up.
Is this normal , only 5 mile of reserve gas?
 
jimmyc said:
....and never had to turn on the reserve tank , UNTIL yesterday . Cruising down the interstate, and had to turn on the reserve, got ONLY 5 miles before I ran out of gas ...
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As far as I understand there’s no “reserve tank” on the 09 EFI bikes
I’m not sure what you’re turning on and off but I think you’re doing something wrong

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My '08 SM610ie has an on/off fuel valve on both sides of the tank. I was told to leave them both in the on position unless you want to take the tank off. You have no reserve on your bike, only a low fuel warning light. Leave both fuel valves open.
 
High-Side said:
My '08 SM610ie has an on/off fuel valve on both sides of the tank. I was told to leave them both in the on position unless you want to take the tank off. You have no reserve on your bike, only a low fuel warning light. Leave both fuel valves open.
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Leave them both open and observe the fuel light!
 
High-Side said:
My '08 SM610ie has an on/off fuel valve on both sides of the tank. I was told to leave them both in the on position unless you want to take the tank off. You have no reserve on your bike, only a low fuel warning light. Leave both fuel valves open.
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Those fuel valves (petcocks) merely feed to each other, with a crossover tube which helps equalize fuel to both sides of the tank. It is correct to leave them open unless you are removing the tank, in which case you will want to close them before removing the crossover tube.
 
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