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I suppose you could be right but the fuel cap looked mint, not a bit of dirt or mis-positioned seals in there. I would suggest that if you are going to disassemble that cap that you do so very carefully and have a cloth down to lay the parts. There is a spring there that I think is made of...

thanks, i had not gotten around to the search yet so you saved me some futile efforts about the fuel filter. I already saw the tip about trimming the hoses in another thread so that's been done. I guess I just ride then! Thanks again for the info :biggrinsmiley:

yeah i just took those pics to show how dirty it got. It's all clean now. I know some of that sand had to have gotten down into the the tank through the overflow drain though. Not much but there has to be some.

I wish I knew. It's crazy. The bike had about 40k on it operating out of Florida but I'd say a good 1/2 of that was outside FLA. The bike was also towed behind an RV around the US. I do know my dad never cleaned it out or even removed the filler cap. The biek was stored inside a clean...

Iggy, Thanks for the quick help so I took the filler cap off and I saw this, hell if I know but it looked like really fine "sand" maybe? I cleaned all that out and blew some air through the orange "seal" for the vent tube. I could feel air going though the tube down under the bike...

Right on...thanks. Fuel Geyser....yeah that's it alright! i will disassemble the filler neck and report back.

Ok so I've put several thousand miles on the '05 FJR and my dad had the bike before me. No problems ever in the 45k history of the bike. Saturday I filled the bike up and commenced to do about 150 miles before our small group stopped to refill and grab something to drink. The bike performed...