| Tank Troubles
Well, Jed Atack came around today to swap the coloured bits between his Monster and mine. Reason is my bike is black, his is yellow, he wanted a black one and I wanted a yellow one.
Anyway both are early 2004 M620ie's, except his (yellow) tank is metal, mine (black) is plastic. So we went through the rigmarole of swapping the tanks over, moving the relays on the side of the battery tray etc, and even had the sense to swap filler caps!
The fuel pumps stayed with their original tanks, and we got all the pipes to fit on OK. The end result was Jed's newly black bike runs fine, but my newly yellow one won't fire. It turns over fine but won't fire up. Boo.
I can't really see anything wrong. When you first turn the ignition on, the injection warning light stays on just a little bit longer than the rest, but the user manual suggests that this is normal.
The Haynes manual seems to suggest that plastic tank had the fuel pressure regulator as part of the fuel pump assembly, whereas metal tank doesn't, so I may now be running without a pressure regulator. Not sure whether this is the cause of the problem though.
Anybody got any ideas?
And yes there is petrol in the tank.
And yes we could try swapping them back....another weekend.  |