Low fuel light

On a 2010fe450 how many miles are left after the fuel light
comes on thanks

I have rode 10mi and did not run out. For what it is worth.

3.5L when the light comes on out of an 8.5L tank iirc

I believe that there are two settings for the low fuel light indicator, 3.5L and 1.8L. They are supposed to be delivered with the 3.5L setting. It's easy to change by simply removing the unit and reinstalling it upside down if you will which will change it to the 1.8L setting.

To answer your question, it depends a lot of what type of riding you are doing, if it is really technical slippery stuff then your mileage is going to me lower, than say a faster, more flowing hard pack type of trail. On my stock tank, I have gone as many as 95 miles riding on two track jeep roads, and as little as 52 miles pulling ribbon in deep sand stop and go every 50-100 feet.

So, if you are regularly getting 30 mpg (12.8 km/L), and the light comes on with 3.5L in the tank, then, you should have 28 miles or 44.8 km's left till dry.

My 09 did not come with a low fuel light. If it was me, I would set the fuel indicator at 1.8L, and I would keep track of how much fuel my bike uses when I fill it up, and then reference it to the amount of miles I have traveled on that tank. I wouldn't want that light coming on every time I have used half the tank. On my carb bikes I never used the ON position, I always ran it on reserve so that it wouldn't run out until it was out.

The stock tank is pretty hard to judge how much fuel is left in there b/c of it's configuration, for those of us with the translucent grey tanks. For those of you who have the black tanks, you'll have to rely on the low fuel light, or if you have a sub frame tank you can do an eyeball on the sub frame tank to tell how much remains in the main tank.

If you are road riding, or two track riding, you will need to pull a wheelie every once and a while to get the gas in the front of the tank back to the well where the fuel pump/sump is. So if you are road riding and the light comes on try pulling a wheelie and see if the light goes out. When riding over off road terrain the motion of the bike will keep the fuel back there as the fuel level gets low.

DaleEO,
sorry this is a little bit off topic from orignial question...

DaleEO said:

On my carb bikes I never used the ON position, I always ran it on reserve so that it wouldn't run out until it was out.

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havn't had the luxury of runing out of gas yet on my 97 fe600e but i thought i read in an old post that the husabergs reserve function did nothing, wether you were on reserve or on, out was out, i hope your right! i was bummed when i read it but did not question it due to the tank style being unlike any other cycle i have had and some other manufacturers have no reserve even though there is a postion on the petcock for it, i cannot see bottom of tank and have no indicator light on my machine, i am sure its just a matter of time before i get to test out the reserve function, just hope there is a pint or two left in there when i need it!

Bergini said:

DaleEO,
sorry this is a little bit off topic from orignial question...

DaleEO said:

On my carb bikes I never used the ON position, I always ran it on reserve so that it wouldn't run out until it was out.

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havn't had the luxury of runing out of gas yet on my 97 fe600e but i thought i read in an old post that the husabergs reserve function did nothing, wether you were on reserve or on, out was out, i hope your right! i was bummed when i read it but did not question it due to the tank style being unlike any other cycle i have had and some other manufacturers have no reserve even though there is a postion on the petcock for it, i cannot see bottom of tank and have no indicator light on my machine, i am sure its just a matter of time before i get to test out the reserve function, just hope there is a pint or two left in there when i need it!

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Bergini,

Your bike has the old style gas tank with fuel being carried low on the right side and lifted over to the left where the pet **** is by a fuel pump right? If you want to know whether or not you have a reserve, put a container in place and use a piece of fuel line and set the petcock to ON and let it drain until it stops, then select RESERVE and see if any more comes out. The old style tank that you have doesn't hold a whole lot on the left side to begin with, so there won't be a whole lot of reserve if there is one.

My 2001 came with a RESERVE function, but, the 04 did not, and I cannot remember about my 94 &1/2 501.

And my point about the RESERVE function was that you had better know how much fuel is left in your bike, and how far it will take you in a given set of conditions, based mainly on how far you have traveled. There are some folks out there who use the RESERVE function of their petcock, as a low fuel indicator, I know several personally, and I have never understood that mentality. The black tanks are a pain for judging fuel quantity and for filling.

So, I think I answered the question quite well for anyone wondering how far one could go once the low fuel light comes on, and some other knock on information to consider if using the low fuel light to judge how close they needed to be to a gas can or service station.

DaleEO said:

There are some folks out there who use the RESERVE function of their petcock, as a low fuel indicator, I know several personally, and I have never understood that mentality. The black tanks are a pain for judging fuel quantity and for filling.

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I'll respectfully disagree as I guess I fit into that mentality. :twisted: On my WRs I always rode with the petcock in the ON position as 90% of the time, I didn't know what length loop we'll do and what conditions the trails were. I don't know how many times the conditions were so tough or trail ended up being much longer that I got 30mi out of my tank instead of 50mi. The reserve would come on, and I'd know to get off the throttle and take a shortcut/easy trail back to the truck. If I left my petcock at RES, I'd be SOL and pushing or walking out. No thanks.

well i found out today, reserve does nothing on my 1997 fe600e was only about 2 miles from home luckily, and even luckier only had to push it about 100 yards and was down hill enough to coast home, at least i know now and wont rely on the reserve even for a backup. anybody know if there really is not a reserve on some models or is there just a problem in my fuel system that could be fixed? i would like to have a backup if this happens again, just a couple miles of run time is better than nothing in my opinion, if there really is no reserve then i guess i wont worry about trying to find the problem and just keep a closer eye on the level.

When the fuel light comes on on my 570, you better sure be near home or gas station. I rode only 5mins or so and had to tow the damn bike to gas station. :lol: