nochain wrote:
I can not find my manual its in a box some where as I have had to move so often so I am now wondering about your comment of the fuel petcock tube "By taking fuel in the horizontal side petcock tube" I understand that the petcock reserve position is straight up as opposed to down main and "horizontal" as off. I a see this is how its marked on my petcock.

NoChain,

Before Honda shutdown their motorcycle factory in Marysville, Ohio I had the good fortune to tour the plant a couple of times during Honda's annual Homecoming Days celebration.  On one of the tours I noticed that the fuel petcocks had two inlet pipe stems.  One was vertical and the other horizontal.  Switching from Main to Reserve effectively allows gasoline to enter the petcock from a higher to lower level in what is actually just one gas tank.  Thus the Reserve tank is not actually a separate gas tank, it just allows gas to be drawn through the petcock from a lower level in the same gas tank.

As one who has moved a lot I can appreciate your situation where you cannot find all your prized possessions.  Hopefully your Manual will "surface" someday soon.  Where have you recently moved from and to? 

I feel happy to have been settled in our current home for a year now.  I hadn't expected to move from Indiana after 7-1/2 years there, but was happy to move to the Charlotte area in 2006 as it gave me an opportunity to ride on a daily basis all year round.  Even though I would have been happy to live in the Charlotte area for many years to come, I was estatic that I was moving to the Greenville, SC area during the summer of 2009 as it was on the doorstep of those fantastic mountain roads that permiate substantial portions of NC, TN and GA.  It came as a huge surprize that after just 4 months in Greenville I was asked by my employer to move to the Athens, GA area.  Although I am a little further from the mountains here I still feel very grateful I can ride all year round and also that the country roads here are plentiful and relatively sparsely travelled. 

  

Fred