Blog Date - 24 January 2018
Oh NO! The old CBF125 must be getting very very old and worn out as it's starting to drink fuel. I'd usually expect to reach around 280 miles before the needle started to touch the red mark on the left side of the meter. I'd still have another 30 or 40 miles before it dropped below the red mark and into the "FILL UP IDIOT!!" area.
Do I need to fill up yet?
Recently this has happened around the 250 mile mark. Then last night it happened at the 240 mile mark. That's it, it's had it, the engine must be about to self-disassemble as I ride it. I wonder what I should get next? Chinese scrambler? Z250SL like Sharon's? Another CBF125 engine to stick in this old hack?
There is another curiosity in the ever spiralling downward condition of my long suffering hack. My tank is getting smaller too.
Typically I'd put in around 10 to 11 litres, filled to the brim. Now I only seem to be putting in 8.5 to 9.5 litres. So not only is the engine on it's last legs the tank is shrinking.
Ahhhh back in the day when it were but a young bike...
Hang on a minute.
Now I'm no genius but even a lowly stupid tool like I cannot figure out how the tank is getting smaller. I've not dented it. I've not been filling it with lumps of iron. Hmmmmmmmmmm....
I...I wonder....perhaps......I think the fuel gauge is becoming a little shy?
I'll give the connector from the tank to the harness a little wobble and perhaps a squirt of WD40. If that fixes it then great. Otherwise I am not stripping my tank down, stripping my wiring harness down and stripping my clocks down to fix it. I managed for years and years without a fuel gauge and I'm sure I'll manage again.
Meh...pffffft.
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