Why Is This Happening?

Well, I got the petcock off, looked at the inline. I saw that there was gas inside the inline housing as it is glass so I can see what is floating. There was a little bit of dirt in there, but I think that this inline is doing what it is supposed to be doing. The petcock screen was fairly clean, not anywhere near as bad as it was when I first starting having these issues. I looked in the gas that was drained and I thought it was really clean. So I think the problem that I was having was a lack of fuel because there was not much at all that drained out, probably not even enough for the petcock to draw fuel. i have noticed with other times of draining the tank that in order to get the tank empty, I would have to slosh the tank a around to get all fuel out. I put more gas in it and it fired right up. I guess I should think about putting on a fuel gage, but they are so ugly and expensive.

I FEEL LIKE THE DUMBEST BIKER ON THE PLANET!!!:angry:

Yeah I have seen that gage, and I am not sure if I want that on the bike. You are most right for sure that having one of those is better than pushing the bike. Like I said, it just kind of sticks out like a sore thumb. I guess I have to have an idea what it is that I have for gas.

Being from the old school I always reset my trip odometer at each fill up I know I can go 225 +- miles before I hit reserve, my fuel gauge quit on a trip back in 08 and I haven’t bothered to fix it yet, never worked that well anyway. Before trip odometers I’d add in my head how far I could go before needing fuel again. I think my 05 is the first Harley that I owned that had a fuel gauge.
I’d still check the needle seat channel as mentioned previously.

Hey Chucktx, I do not think that I need ya to find a better cap for me. I have discovered that putting gas in the bike works miracles.

That is a nice way of saying that I am a dip ****.