Changed fuel filter, now troubles.

[SPYRO]

Hi fellas.

Have changed the fuel filter to my bike, tank was dirty aswell so I cleaned all.

Placed the thing, assured that no hose is bend, or leaking.

On the highway, the bike sounds like when it run out of gas, and on a hill it has absolutely no strenght, I chequed the tank faucet and it was on the right position.

After placing the new filter I noticed one of the hoses isn't "that" tight. (the one that goes to the carbs) and while it doesn't leak gas, could the carb be sucking air? (like when you have a straw with a hole on your soda)

I chequed and the filter is getting gas, the pump works fine...

total mistery..

oh, and I had to use a car filter, one of those with a brown corrugated carton inside (instead of the original filter with white foam inside) is bigger than the original ,not "that" big anyways...

thanks in advance.

SPYRO

[dmnxtra]

Originally Posted by SPYRO

oh, and I had to use a car filter, one of those with a brown corrugated carton inside (instead of the original filter with white foam inside) is bigger than the original ,not "that" big anyways...

SPYRO

You might want to check to see if you put the filter in backwards . I have seen that many times on cars . But, you might be better off using the proper filter designed for your bike instead .

[fengler]

Originally Posted by dmnxtra

You might want to check to see if you put the filter in backwards . I have seen that many times on cars . But, you might be better off using the proper filter designed for your bike instead .

+1 the filter might be backwards or the filter could be too fine for the gas and its not letting it flow fast enough. on most cars the fuel pump pushes gas through the filter, if only gravity is pushing the fuel , it may not work right.
Nick