i am a moron.
i stopped by the scooter lounge the other day to change the fuel tap on my scooter.
some background: a fuel tap is a little lever with three settings (on, off, and reserve). "on" stops working a bit before the tank is actually empty, so that you can switch to "reserve" and still make it to a gas station. on older bikes and scooters this is the only way to know when your fuel is low. newer bikes (like my stella) have a fuel gauge as well. but the fuel tap is still there for backup.
except that my fuel tap stopped working last summer, about the time my gas gauge died. so i had no indication when i was almost out of fuel. pushing my scooter to gas stations every time i ran out of gas was getting annoying, so i broke down and ordered a new fuel tap.
and i stopped by the scooter lounge the other day to change the fuel tap on my scooter.
well, "stopped by" seems pretty nonchalant. "pushed my scooter ten blocks to the scooter lounge after i ran out of gas" would be a bit more accurate.
i spent a couple of hours replacing it (a complicated process that involved taking my scooter most of the way apart so that i could remove the gas tank). while i was at it, i adjusted my shift cables, did a bit of odd maintenance.
got it all bolted back together and realized that i couldn't find my gas cap. poop.
it's inside my scooter.
i think i'll just order a new one.
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edit: dave at the scooter lounge says he found my gas cap!
i'm mostly excited because it means i won't have to take my scooter apart again.
So you are not really Bob or a Cow...I see how it really is!
I think we must live in a parallel universe. I got a new tap and put it in at the Lounge on the way down to Moab.
Works great, and then starts leaking.....like a sieve!
I push to 3 gas stations, plus my home supply. A guy sees me on my scooter one day, and says, your going green huh? Well I am on a two stroke, and I didn't want to tell him, that I had at that point dumped about 4 gallons of gasoline on various places in Pocatello.
I took out the tank so many times, I think I can do it in the dark now. I had to retighten it, and I think it is fine now.
Good luck.
Marty
guilty as charged. i am not a cow...
sounds like you had quite the fuel tap adventures. luckily mine has been working great. i need to retrain myself to use reserve though. i keep forgetting to switch the fuel tap back when i refuel, so i've run out of gas even after changing the fuel tap :-)
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