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Hot bike with bubbling gas?? WTH? - FireCapt41 - 07-20-2012 On my recent trip to South Carolina, we stopped for a break and I could not get my SEi started. I had smelled gas for a few minutes then when I went to start it, I believe it was "flooded" I looked in the tank and the gas was literally bubbling. What the heck was that??? I have heard the 85-87 injection will act up, specifically when it is hot. We were riding in 98-100F heat but I was on 3 or 4 bars which is normal for my ride. The only thing I can think of that may have been different was that I was trying to fill the tank as full as possible and the two times I did that, I could smell fuel when I was riding but both times, the tank would have been at least half empty. Did I need to leave a little room for air in the tank? Any thoughts/suggestions?? Re: Hot bike with bubbling gas?? WTH? - wildhorse - 07-20-2012 The heat radiating off the engine will cause the fuel to boil from time to time, Suggestion would be to give the bike 5 minutes to cool down before fueling in extreme temp conditions and whatever you do, make sure there is no form of ignition around when you open the tank up. That boiling will cause excessive vapors and you wouldn't want to be around that torch if it were to ignite. Re: Hot bike with bubbling gas?? WTH? - FireCapt41 - 07-20-2012 I did start opening the fuel cap when we took breaks and that seemed to prevent it later in the trip. And no worries on the vapor issue,,,,,,my buddies laughed at me because I had my fire extinguisher out when I popped the cap the first time. They laugh, but it's just to tease, they love having a firefighter/medic on the trips with them. Re: Hot bike with bubbling gas?? WTH? - wildhorse - 07-20-2012 The only problem with having a fire extinguisher out is that when and if ignition hits, you are already burned and the extinguisher is just an after effect. RE: Hot bike with bubbling gas?? WTH? - sparky65 - 08-01-2013 (07-20-2012, 05:43 AM)FireCapt41 Wrote: On my recent trip to South Carolina, we stopped for a break and I could not get my SEi started. I had smelled gas for a few minutes then when I went to start it, I believe it was "flooded" I looked in the tank and the gas was literally bubbling. What the heck was that??? |