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oily



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:52 am    Post subject: SB6 Fuel Gauge Sender Reply with quote

Any one figured out a source or an alternative yet for the fragile SB6 fuel gauge sender unit Crying or Very sad
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oily



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been in touch with woods motorcycles and spoke to Alan, excellent service.
Told him what I wanted, he emailed Bimota and got back to me next day.
For the low fuel light switch, woods quoted about £40 (ouch) but I could swallow that. Of course, that's plus vat and plus £3 postage, I could swallow that too. Bearing in mind this thing is about half the size and weight of my thumb and he cannot gaurentee how long it would take to arrive, he then tells me Bimota would also want between £15 and £30 to post it to Woods from Italy. That I cannot swallow. I could get a return flight to Italy cheaper.
Looks like I'll be running out of fuel again Crying or Very sad
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sapila racing



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I managed to order parts last year from bimota through www.bimota.it and finally got my parts from the Bimota distributor in Greece.
The fuel level sensor was 45 Euros, and since I installed it I didn't have any problems.
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oily



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you have to pay for shipping on top of the 45 euro's
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sapila racing



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did pay for shipping from Italy to Greece, but I ordered many parts and the shipping cost was reasonable.
Shipping for everything was 44 Euros, and it was a lot of parts, total was around 250 Euros...
The most expensive was the fork maintenance kit at 140 Euro + Tax.

The price for the fuel sensor alone was 45 Euro + Tax.

I had bought earlier a VDue fuel sensor from ebay as it was chepaer and looked similar but it didn't fit.

Aris
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oily



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The price of the fuel sensor is more or less the same, including the + taxes bit.
Bimota must charge the £15-£30 shipping on every order which is fine if you've orderd many parts but I can't swallow £15-£30 just for the little tiny sensor Laughing
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Jonny B Bad



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is your existing sender completely wrecked? One of the wires broke off the one on my R, so I crimped a round terminal to it and put it under one of the mounting bolts, which sorted it.
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oily



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome to the forum JBB
Yep, Completly wrecked. No wires on the outside and no gubbins on the inside, In fact, not so much a sender as a plug.
No matter, one will come along eventually
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vort28



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey Oily . I too need one of these sensors , how about we do a forum order ?
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oily



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm all for that Wink
Unfortunatly, I don't know where to get them from.
Bimota haven't got any so they tell me.

UKBIMOTA want to step in here and put a little pressure on the factory to have a batch made or find out where they originated and I'll go direct
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Evilchicken0



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's only a fuel warning light on the SB6, it comes on quite often and isn't very helpful.

I monitor my bike's fuel through the trop odometer ... and try to fill up just over 100miles (approx 160kms). This is made more interesting by the trip odo usually jaming at 57miles, so I have to remember to turn it back to 0 at 50miles. Gotta love your bike huh ???
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

Post a piccy of the sender and someone might recognise where it comes from.

All the best

Keith
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Evilchicken0



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a SB6 fuel tank on German e-bay at the moment
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oily



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Evilchicken0 wrote:
There's a SB6 fuel tank on German e-bay at the moment


Yep, should be winging it's way to me at the moment Wink
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oily



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Admin wrote:
Hi

Post a piccy of the sender and someone might recognise where it comes from.

All the best

Keith


I will Keith........just as soon as I can get my hands on one to photograph Laughing
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