Silly question maybe, but what position should you put the fuel petcock in when riding, vs. storing the bike vs. transporting the bike. Being not that familiar with injected bikes, is there something you can do to the fuel system to have fewer problems when you try and start the bike a few weeks down the road? On carbed bikes I always ran the float bowl dry (or drained it) and turned the fuel off during storage and during transport. Does the injection system get clogged or varnished up if the bike isn't started up frequently? Does ethanol play hell with the EFI? The owner handbook doesn't seem to discuss these issues.
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Fuel petcock TE310R
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DG Harv Serv
Husqvarna
AA Class
Leave both Fuel Petcocks on all the time. They are only turned off to remove the balance pipe to remove the tank.
They have no bearing on fuel supply.
They have no bearing on fuel supply.
Mike-AK
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Fuel petcock does nothing on the TE310 except allow cross feeding between the two lower "lobes" of the tank. There is no fuel flowing from them to the engine. Fuel gets to the fuel rail via the pump inside the tank through the hose that leads to the fuel rail. Second the recommendation for using a fuel stabilizer.
yanmar
Husqvarna
AA Class
I've been running aviation fuel for years , 100 octane ( no ethanol ) so there is never an issue with storage . Plus at 4.50 to 5.00 a gallon it's not much more then premium at the pumps . When I had my Honda crf 250 x and my Kawasaki klx 450 I would add a little bit of lead to the fuel for the valves but not sure with the te 310 with the fuel injection .
Thank you all for the replies. I guess I'll just leave the petcocks "on" most of the time. I,too, am tempted to use 100LL aviation gas as I use it in my race car (I know, some will tell me I shouldn't do this) and have some laying around here. But the bike says "unleaded only" on it but I bet that's cuz it needs that for the catalytic converter and O2 sensor, which for some strange reason appears to be missing on my bike... Av gas "ages" well compared to street gas--particularly those that contain ethanol. Many planes sit around a lot.
Yeah, I suspect the "low" in "100 low-lead" means "low" relative to the 140-ish octane high-lead gas they used in military piston powered aircraft years ago...
Mike, I shy away from using the 100LL for that very reason you stated---the significant lead deposits left on the piston, valves, combustion chamber and exhaust.
Still nobody mentioned whether the street gasoline with ethanol will be hard/corrosive on my Keihin fuel injection system if I let the bike sit for a while. Don't want any problems.
Mike, I shy away from using the 100LL for that very reason you stated---the significant lead deposits left on the piston, valves, combustion chamber and exhaust.
Still nobody mentioned whether the street gasoline with ethanol will be hard/corrosive on my Keihin fuel injection system if I let the bike sit for a while. Don't want any problems.