Some will have seen this:
http://hposkam.nl/en/product/bmw-vlotter-converter/
The plug-in converter comes with instructions and photos of how to install the module and float on a R1200GSA fuel tank. The website (http://hposkam.nl) also shows it being installed in a R1200GSA, but lists a float option for the R1200GS as well.
The R1200GS float option listed at hposkam.nl (16148554064) is for models from 2008.
I suspect that for R1200GSAs and 2008-2010 R1200GSs the information provided with the converter and on the website will provide an easy upgrade path, but for the 2004-2007 R1200GSs it is less certain.
I have a 2007 R1200GS so I decided to check up on details, the following is what I think I have discovered.
Observations:
R1200GSA float assembly:
Late R1200GS float assembly (left, attached to bracket) and early R1200GS float assembly (right)
I’ll have a closer look when I have things apart, but I doubt fitting the later R1200GS float assembly to an early bike will even be an option (the filler neck appears to be fundamentally different in the images I have looked at).
I have a complete early pump with float so I have done a dummy run with the spare pump and the converter plugged into the bike’s loom…at the float’s lowest position the fuel gauge is still displaying one bar and the blob at the bottom (and the low fuel warning comes on). With the float at its highest position the fuel gauge shows full and the low fuel warning is off. So in a basic sense the converter and float do the basic job.
The gauge display is the same for both float assemblies as one would expect.
The downside of the early model float is that it is not listed as a separate assembly. It should be possible to butcher one of the others to fit directly on to the pump, but the float arm would need to be modified so that it sits at the correct angle (see photos above), probably not straight forward because there are quite a few twists and turns in it.
Questions:
http://hposkam.nl/en/product/bmw-vlotter-converter/
The plug-in converter comes with instructions and photos of how to install the module and float on a R1200GSA fuel tank. The website (http://hposkam.nl) also shows it being installed in a R1200GSA, but lists a float option for the R1200GS as well.
The R1200GS float option listed at hposkam.nl (16148554064) is for models from 2008.
I suspect that for R1200GSAs and 2008-2010 R1200GSs the information provided with the converter and on the website will provide an easy upgrade path, but for the 2004-2007 R1200GSs it is less certain.
I have a 2007 R1200GS so I decided to check up on details, the following is what I think I have discovered.
Observations:
- Early non-computer(?) R1200GSs had a float instead of the strip.
- The early type float is not listed as a separate assembly, it is part of the fuel pump.
- The float arrangement on the later model R1200GS is totally different to the early model R1200GS and the R1200GSA - the float is mounted on a bracket that attaches to the filler neck instead of being mounted directly on the fuel pump.
- It is only the actual arm that appears different for each assembly (see photos).
- The early R1200GS fuel tank is a different shape to later models.
R1200GSA float assembly:
Late R1200GS float assembly (left, attached to bracket) and early R1200GS float assembly (right)
I’ll have a closer look when I have things apart, but I doubt fitting the later R1200GS float assembly to an early bike will even be an option (the filler neck appears to be fundamentally different in the images I have looked at).
I have a complete early pump with float so I have done a dummy run with the spare pump and the converter plugged into the bike’s loom…at the float’s lowest position the fuel gauge is still displaying one bar and the blob at the bottom (and the low fuel warning comes on). With the float at its highest position the fuel gauge shows full and the low fuel warning is off. So in a basic sense the converter and float do the basic job.
The gauge display is the same for both float assemblies as one would expect.
The downside of the early model float is that it is not listed as a separate assembly. It should be possible to butcher one of the others to fit directly on to the pump, but the float arm would need to be modified so that it sits at the correct angle (see photos above), probably not straight forward because there are quite a few twists and turns in it.
Questions:
- If a bike is run completely out of fuel do all the blocks on the gauge normally go out? My gauge has never worked reliably enough to see it!
- Do the early non-computer bikes have a fuel level gauge? I’m just trying to work out whether on these bikes the float is only intended to trigger the low fuel level alert or not.