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Here's the story, followed by the questions:
1. 2009 K1200LT with 15k miles on it. I have filled it up 31 times since I bought it September 2011 with 9,200 miles on it.
2. A couple of days ago, after parking it in the garage, we heard a strange thumping sound coming from the front end every 30 seconds or so. We listened carefully and determined it was coming from the gas tank. I opened the gas cap and heard the "whoosh" sound of in-rushing air. OK, so apparently I've overfilled the gas tank and the canister is plugged with gas.
3. Replaced the gas cap and it started and ran fine. Forgot all about it, thinking I had dodged a bullet, until...
4. I ran out of gas on the side of the road. But wait - the fuel gauge still shows a half tank of gas. ??? Removed the gas cap, "whoosh" is heard again, used flashlight to observe no gas in tank!
5. Removed the canister along the side of the road (thanks to directions I had printed just the night before from this site, because I knew I had the problem), put some gas on board and rode home.
6. I've filled it up twice since then. After fill-up, the fuel gauge indicates "full", it slowly works its way down to "half", then stays there for the remainder of the tank of gas. The bike runs fine otherwise. Currently, I'm using the trip odometer to tell me when to get gas. That works, but it's not convenient.
Have I damaged a float or something that is used by the fue gauge?
What's it cost to replace that? (at a dealership)
Is this replaceable under warranty? (please say "yes")
PS: I had to think about why this never happened on the '05 LT, on which I put 120k miles. I've been filling up the '09 the same as I did the '05 - which involves a lot of "topping off" of gas, after the automatic shutoff. It's because I had the canister removed at a tech session after I'd had the '05 for just a few months, so I never learned that what I was doing was adding too much gas.
1. 2009 K1200LT with 15k miles on it. I have filled it up 31 times since I bought it September 2011 with 9,200 miles on it.
2. A couple of days ago, after parking it in the garage, we heard a strange thumping sound coming from the front end every 30 seconds or so. We listened carefully and determined it was coming from the gas tank. I opened the gas cap and heard the "whoosh" sound of in-rushing air. OK, so apparently I've overfilled the gas tank and the canister is plugged with gas.
3. Replaced the gas cap and it started and ran fine. Forgot all about it, thinking I had dodged a bullet, until...
4. I ran out of gas on the side of the road. But wait - the fuel gauge still shows a half tank of gas. ??? Removed the gas cap, "whoosh" is heard again, used flashlight to observe no gas in tank!
5. Removed the canister along the side of the road (thanks to directions I had printed just the night before from this site, because I knew I had the problem), put some gas on board and rode home.
6. I've filled it up twice since then. After fill-up, the fuel gauge indicates "full", it slowly works its way down to "half", then stays there for the remainder of the tank of gas. The bike runs fine otherwise. Currently, I'm using the trip odometer to tell me when to get gas. That works, but it's not convenient.
Have I damaged a float or something that is used by the fue gauge?
What's it cost to replace that? (at a dealership)
Is this replaceable under warranty? (please say "yes")
PS: I had to think about why this never happened on the '05 LT, on which I put 120k miles. I've been filling up the '09 the same as I did the '05 - which involves a lot of "topping off" of gas, after the automatic shutoff. It's because I had the canister removed at a tech session after I'd had the '05 for just a few months, so I never learned that what I was doing was adding too much gas.
We did the complete canisterectomy (per that Word doc provided previously), except for removing the tube that goes down by the rear tire. I'll do that sometime soon.
