TallTom
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Here is a word of caution or whatever you like to call it.
I did a search to see if anyone else had seen this. No results came up.
Today while riding home I was 2 blocks from the house. I felt my rear wheel lose traction briefly. I thought that was odd I must have hit a patch of oil. Didn't give it 2nd thought until the next curve. She slid again on the back. My g/f who was riding her bike behind me comes racing up and says "You have fuel pouring out of your bike!" I said "OK I'm gonna limp it home" thinking she was seeing maybe a drop or something. So a block more of losing traction and I pulled up in my driveway and shut it off. Look behind me and its a trail of a steady stream of fuel behind me. As in pouring. As soon as I shut it off the pouring stopped.
I'm like WTH. I propped my tank up to start looking. I found the main fuel line had come off the tank! I had the tank off about maybe 6 months ago. Have had it off probably 3 times before at various times. I always am pretty thorough in my maintenance and I would be the type to feel that "click in" and pull to make sure it was on. I will assume it was never on all the way. Somehow it got passed me. How it made it 6 months and 1K miles I will never know. I could have had it happen in the middle of nowhere and yes the toolkit would have allowed me to find it on the road and make a repair. It is more the notion that had I not had someone behind me, I cold have been going down the interstate and never knew I was pouring fuel out onto the header pipes etc. until it got a LOT worse.
I was also having a hot re-start slow to start issue I had noted in my head to check into next time I was tuning etc. After I re-installed this line I rode for the rest of the day with no issues, including a the hot re-start issue. She fires right up on a hot re-start again like normal. I had also noticed my fuel mileage seemed low. This could all be related. But man what a way to discover it!
So check and double-check this guys and girls. I will be checking my g/f's bike tomorrow, just in case there is a fuel line self disconnect issue that has developed. First I see of this so I am not screaming the sky is falling. I am my own mechanic. I will own that it must have gotten past me. But do yourself a favor, and take extra time to make sure on yours.
Makes for a scary situation if you don't expect it.
I did a search to see if anyone else had seen this. No results came up.
Today while riding home I was 2 blocks from the house. I felt my rear wheel lose traction briefly. I thought that was odd I must have hit a patch of oil. Didn't give it 2nd thought until the next curve. She slid again on the back. My g/f who was riding her bike behind me comes racing up and says "You have fuel pouring out of your bike!" I said "OK I'm gonna limp it home" thinking she was seeing maybe a drop or something. So a block more of losing traction and I pulled up in my driveway and shut it off. Look behind me and its a trail of a steady stream of fuel behind me. As in pouring. As soon as I shut it off the pouring stopped.
I'm like WTH. I propped my tank up to start looking. I found the main fuel line had come off the tank! I had the tank off about maybe 6 months ago. Have had it off probably 3 times before at various times. I always am pretty thorough in my maintenance and I would be the type to feel that "click in" and pull to make sure it was on. I will assume it was never on all the way. Somehow it got passed me. How it made it 6 months and 1K miles I will never know. I could have had it happen in the middle of nowhere and yes the toolkit would have allowed me to find it on the road and make a repair. It is more the notion that had I not had someone behind me, I cold have been going down the interstate and never knew I was pouring fuel out onto the header pipes etc. until it got a LOT worse.
I was also having a hot re-start slow to start issue I had noted in my head to check into next time I was tuning etc. After I re-installed this line I rode for the rest of the day with no issues, including a the hot re-start issue. She fires right up on a hot re-start again like normal. I had also noticed my fuel mileage seemed low. This could all be related. But man what a way to discover it!
So check and double-check this guys and girls. I will be checking my g/f's bike tomorrow, just in case there is a fuel line self disconnect issue that has developed. First I see of this so I am not screaming the sky is falling. I am my own mechanic. I will own that it must have gotten past me. But do yourself a favor, and take extra time to make sure on yours.
Makes for a scary situation if you don't expect it.
