Well, I went there yesterday afternoon but because the salesman is a moron I ended up not leaving the dealership until about 8:00. My first ride on my new bike was 1 hour drive home in the dark. Ugh!

I was inside filling out paperwork and when I went outside to see what was taking so long, there was a puddle of gas under the bike. I want to say at least 3 or 4 gallons. He had the fuel reserve switch on the wrong setting and the gas kept pouring out. He had no clue what he was doing and instead of asking for help he just kept dumping more gas into it. Luckily their new finance manager is the old bike sales guy and he's NOT a moron. He took over and took it around for a few minutes to make sure the guy hadn't screwed anything else up.

Either way, I officially own a gs500 now, yay!

bitchin' 

Atta Boy.

Don't feel alone on the dealer thing.  We've all been there.

ec4

Quote from: Wrecent_Wryder on March 30, 2006, 06:26:50 AMI guess I don't get it. What setting on the reserve switch would cause gas to pour out, without another malfunction, and how?

Right on the money. Keywords: "without another malfunction"

Well, I know that there's 2 fuel valves - the standard pri/res switch and another valve to control flow out of the tank. On the right side of my bike, just in front of my brake lever, I've got a tube that is connected to nothing that the fuel was pouring out of. The explanation from the idiot salesman was that he had adjusted something with a screw driver to make sure that it wouldn't do that and had actually done the opposite. Whatever it was, once the tech looked at it he took about 10 seconds to fix the issue, and then drove it around for a few minutes to ensure no more leaks, then filled it all the way up. When he got back, the idiot salesman had changed his story to something to do with the pri/res valve. Nobody corrected him and I sure as hell am not as knowledgeable (or at least I hope to god I'm not) as those guys, so I swallowed the story.

Perhaps I'm wrong! If so, clue me in on what probably was happening?

What really matters, dammit, is that I have my bike. But if it's broke it'll need fixin'!

Edit: Not sure if there's an a hose to allow more air into the tank when it's set to reserve or anything. Could that've caused it?

Quote from: solaron on March 30, 2006, 07:30:40 AMOn the right side of my bike, just in front of my brake lever, I've got a tube that is connected to nothing that the fuel was pouring out of.

that's the airbox drain. Fuel flowing from there indicates that:

The petcock lets fuel through without the motor running because either

The petcock is on PRI(me)
The petcock is defective

AND

The needle valve in at least one of the carbs is not working. That needle valve stops fuel flow as soon as correct fuel level in the carb bowls is reached.

Come to think of that: The overflow hose from the tank also ends in front of the brake lever. (That drains spills when filling up and rainwater from around the tank cover to the ground.)  It would need one heck of a screwed up hookup however tho have fuel draining from there permanently.

But having just heard about dealers connecting the tank overflow to the Carb reference pressure fitting I am willing ot believe anything.

Well, whatever was done no longer has fuel draining from there permanently. Is this something I need to bring back to the dealer and have fixed or is it a 'If it's working it's fine' type issue?

Set the petcock to "PRI" and check if you get fuel draining. If so, the float valve is shot.

Not that the fuel system has changed much, but what year GS is this anyway?

If it is a new bike, brand new, this is odd.

This is brand new. It had 2 miles on it when I got it last night.

I'll go change the petcock to pri and see what happens.

Okay, changed the setting to Pri and Res and let it sit there a few on each one. No gas came out of the hose or anything.....

Congrats on the new bike, and I hope you don't have any further problems! 

Quote from: solaron on March 30, 2006, 08:12:02 AM
This is brand new. It had 2 miles on it when I got it last night.

I'll go change the petcock to pri and see what happens.

Okay, changed the setting to Pri and Res and let it sit there a few on each one. No gas came out of the hose or anything.....

You should be good to go then.  Enjoy the ride and be safe

Yay! Bike!!

congrats!

Congradulations!

Pablo - BTW, I can't see your avatar anymore.

The float could have been stuck and since been knocked back into position...

Congrats on the bike... Now post pics....  NOW!

I4

Wrecent Wryder - yeah, the dealership I went through is dropping their Suzuki dealership in favor of expanding their new car sales sometime within the next year, so I'll need to find a new dealership anyways. The ineptitude just sealed the deal!

I'll be posting pics once I get home tonight! Rawr!

below 5000rpm for the 1st 600 miles...

is hard, but you can do it