Extended range gas tank?

[Guest Ken8143]

take a look at this - http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Yamaha-VENTURE-ROYALE-1300cc-Beautiful_W0QQitemZ140298791821QQihZ004QQcategoryZ6718QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Looks like this bike has an extra tank mounted on a trailer hitch? Anybody ever seen anything like this? Would the fuel pump be able to draw from that tank?

[RedRider]

It should. I have looked at http://www.tourtank.com/index.html for an auxilliary tank. There is a company called Sampson (or something like that) that makes MC aux tanks including one that goes behind the license plate on the FJR1300.

 

RR

[raceman62race]

I'm not sure about the Venture but I can't see why it wouldn't work. I use to own a Suzuki VL1500 with an extended range fuel tank. The VL1500's gas tank is actually under the seat and an electric fuel pump would pump fuel to the carbs much like the Venture. A man known a G-man designed and marketed a fuel tank that went in place of the catalytic converter so you had to run after market pipes if you ran his tank. When you removed the stock pipes, it opened up a rather large spot in front of the rear tire. His tank fit right in the spot where the catalytic converter use to be. When low fuel light came on, the driver had to flip a momentary toggle switch that started a timing relay. A sEperate fuel pump would pump the fuel out of the aux tank into the main tank. The timing relay was set to run the fuel pump just long enough to pump the aux tank dry then turn off. It was a really neat and well thought out system. I would think the aux tank on the Venture would work as well.