my reserve is too reserved!

Hi, everyone. I got an 84 KZ-550 LTD a couple months ago. This past Friday, while riding to work, I ran out of gas for the first time. When the engine stalled idling at a stoplight, I thought "no problem" and just flipped the fuel valve over to RES. I got the engine restarted and rode on, but another block down the road, it stalled again. Now that's the smallest reserve capacity I've ever heard of!

Does anyone have any suggestions for what might be wrong with the bike to cause the reserve to have such an incredibly small reserve?

pull the petcock out of tank and check it;)

sounds like you pulled trash off of the bottom of the tank.

Yup,Todd...running it that low,You were suckin crumbs out of the tank.You SHOULD be able to get at least another 25 miles out of reserve(don't quote me on that though).
Like mentioned...pull the tank and give it a flush.

wireman wrote:

pull the petcock out of tank and check it;)

Yup. If you've never had the petcock out, now would be a good time. It's always possible someone removed the pipe.