18 sidewinder fuel pickup extensions

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sledheadjake

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• Dec 22, 2018

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So today on very steep downhill incline with a quarter tank of fuel my sled died, then would not restart until I pulled the ass end below the front. How hard of a job is it to extend the pickups?

 

Turblue

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• Dec 23, 2018

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Mine does that also ...I haven’t looked into trying anything to make it work better.

 

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sledheadjake

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• Dec 24, 2018

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So I pulled out my gas gauge sending unit an I could see that the fuel pickup on the right side of the tank was 6 " too far back. So I pulled the fuel pump and added on just the right side fuel pickup tube 6" of 5/16 of fuel line. The whole project only took me about an hour. Should be good to go now

 

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• Feb 28, 2022

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sledheadjake said:

So I pulled out my gas gauge sending unit an I could see that the fuel pickup on the right side of the tank was 6 " too far back. So I pulled the fuel pump and added on just the right side fuel pickup tube 6" of 5/16 of fuel line. The whole project only took me about an hour. Should be good to go now

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Do you have any pic's or can you elaborate on what exactly you did? Im having the same issues when i shut my sled off on a down hill... Has this solved the issue ?