remoandiris wrote:
msmith1199 wrote:
remoandiris wrote:
OH48Lt wrote:
X2. Never use the auto shut-off when filling a MC. NEVER. Only an inexperienced rider would do that.
I guess my 23+ years and 300K+ miles across North America and Europe makes me an inexperienced rider. Do I use the auto shut off when filling my bike? Yes. Do I top off the tank on my bike? Yes. Do I walk away from my bike while pumping gas? No, I stand there beside my bike until the the auto shut off clicks, then I top it off.
Oh, the humanity!
BTW, I don't turn off the propane either. Stay far away from me at the pumps.
So you stick the gas nozzle in your bike tank and start filling and simply trust that the auto-shut off is going to work properly when it's full? You must spill a lot of gas on your tank and down onto your engine.
Nope. Never have. NEVER. If you can't properly insert a nozzle into your tank, maybe it is YOU who has issues.
How some people can turn a simple task as filling a gas tank into a complicated process that needs a checklist and gubment oversight, I'll never know.
Another side of - "NEVER"..:R
Hmmmmmm lets see -
I'm 71, got my first scoot (a '64 Triumph 650 TR6SC) when I got my first CA DL at 15.
NEVER have I EVER let a pump "auto-fill" on any of the MCs I've had over all those years.
Limey Bikes, German Bikes, Italian Bikes, Japanese Bikes, Harleys.
Street & Dirt. For fun and competition.
That goes back to when the nozzles didn't have the static eliminator
"spring" around the neck and vapor recovery - for "gubment oversight".
Whether I really needed to do that or not, it's simply good
*common sense* !!.:S
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30 years as a F/F - lots of "accidental" gas station fuel spills for lots of reasons. Stuff happens.
Memorable (serious) Spills:
Tank truck driver was filling his double gasoline tanker at the Chevron Bulk plant in our city. Let his (diesel) engine run.
Yep - it has auto shut off, overfill protection.
He walked over to the security shack to BS with the guard while it was filling...Murphy struck!
From the guy in the guard shack;
They're chatting - driver hears his engine start to "run away" (from sucking up the vapor from the gasoline that were spilling out).
The driver made a dash to shut off his truck and/or fuel.
Second bad choice. Didn't make it. Big Boom. Fatality.
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Dispatched to a self-service gas station. Fuel spill.
On arrival.....4 guys had been out ocean fishing (and enjoying a few beers).
On the way home, boat owner decides to fill his (gas) tanks to be ready for next time. Tells his buddies he has tanks on each side of the boat, heads for restroom.
His buddies help out.....one nozzle from both sides of boat (two pumps) inserted into two of the....
"pole holes" !!
Gas station attendant caught on after heavy gasoline odor - and "only" 40 gallons of gas pumped into the bilge - shut down all the pumps.
Luckily, the boat group were the only ones there - no gasoline on the ground, but fumes were very heavy!
Murphy missed out on that one.
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Propane. "Burn Victim".
Guy was moving. Professional (big name - "Murphy"?) moving company.
He has a propane BBQ to be loaded. Movers tell him they can't take a propane bottle with fuel still in it.
Movers tell him to take it out in his backyard, open valve and turn it upside down. Bad deal - he has slightly raised flower beds around the backyard. So, the yard is a big "bathtub".
Murphy = vapors find ignition source via an in-ground spa on the side of his house.
He's wearing shorts and jogging shoes. Flashes about 50 ft back to him. 2nd & 3rd degree burns on lower legs & feet. (Burned off the tops of his shoes!).
Kid working for the movers had smelled "gas" just before the event and
closed sliding door to the house.
History repeats itself. Military friend and family are moving from CA to DC. Movers there. The wife calls me at home....says movers told her to do the same, and "it just doesn't sound right". Smart lady.
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The Class B (Van).
Don't know the brand in the pic - but it's a regular problem with 90s Ford vapor recovery systems. Can't get gas into tank - and/or it drizzles onto the ground when filling.
(I had one of those - Ford E-150 Van!)
When VR system gets really bad, start pumping and it will start to fill, then "belches" the gas you pumped back out.
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