Fuel Tap Positions - Please help

[DaveA]

Hi All,

Newbie to the site, and what a fresh looking site it is may I add, I have just bought a 'vintage' NTV 600 revere - showing 76K miles, saved her from her 5th year of solitary confinement in some blokes shed, and have had some fun sorting her out and getting her back on the road.

I had her MOT'd the other day and now realise don't know the on posn or the reserve posn on the fuel tap.

I know facing toward rear of the bike is off, I suspect on is upwards and reserve down, but I am not too sure and don't want to find out when it's too late and I have no juice left.

Hope someone can let me know ;D thanks

Dave

[rj2para (Bisto)]

Hi and welcome top news another poster already getting stuck in

No problem.

1. Pointing Up is ON
2. Pointing Back is OFF
3. Pointing Down is RESERVE

Have fun.

Where are you based as we have a ride out planned on the South coast next weekend. Hope you can make it.

[Buzzin (^_^)]

Welcome to the site

Just a pic from the past I made:


Also, I just found this out the other day: when you take of the side panels, and remove the plastic from the switch, the options are actually printed in the switch (just in case it ever got swapped I guess)

[undercover]

this just happened to me

fuel tap is pointing up ''on position'' i am on the bypass i take the slip road my bike cuts out
guess what i am out of fuel and my fuel tap is pointing up
and no the fuel tap has not been messed with

the fuel tap is on and i run out of petrol ,,,,,,,,, no joke
no warning
what the hell
it gets worse another guy on a new spanking honda stops and askes if i am ok i explain
i am going to push it to the garage only 6 mins up the road
he jumps back on his bike forgets to turn th alarm off and it starts whailing and flashing lights.
he turns his bike off and tries to start it flat battery so he begins pushing his bike with me.

i get to the garage and fill the bike up but the battery is now dead
30 mins later the rac turn up and jump start the bike
yep it was out of fuel and the bloody fuel tap is still pointing up

i cant warn everybody enough DO NOT TRUST THE BIKE TO GO INTO RESERVE