SkooterG
Purveyor of Crooked Facts
Ok, so I followed your advice. A search of "boiling" resulted in many threads, but only one with boiling gas in the title. CLICKY HERE for that thread. If you want to consider more threads as data points, YOU go find them.Ummm, sorry SkooterG - but please to do a search on "boiling" and you will be enlightened to learn my '05 was not "special" in any way when it came to boiling the fuel when hot after running in warm weather then shut off and sitting.
Well, I read that thread and I seem to be in good company when it comes to believing what the ROOT CAUSE of the boiling gas is. There are a few folks who report either the *one time only* gas boiling event, or the *very rare* event. They usually attribute it to heat, but most of the following discussion is about problems with venting. In fact, here is little gem of a quote from Jestal:
I would look for something wrong....period. No company makes a fuel tank that would spew fuel under normal conditions of heat and altitude. There must be a vent plugged for pressure to build that high. Fuel tanks are designed to vent
No doubt, when someone first encounters the boiling gas phenomena the first thought is that the well known heat problem of the FJR was the cause. But closer examination of the facts and fuel system design should lead one elsewhere for the ROOT CAUSE. No doubt, heat is a CONTRIBUTING FACTOR, but it is NOT the ROOT CAUSE.
If heat were the root cause, why aren't FJR gas tanks boiling on a regular basis all over the country? Why doesn't mine or vectervp1's boil when we ride in 115+ degree heat? I mean, I still see threads started on a somewhat regular basis about the FJR's HEAT, yet the boiling gas thread is pretty rare. If heat were the root cause of boiling gas, it would be all over this forum. Make's sense, no?
You must have "special" gas up there in Washington. Or, perhaps the same aliens that are stealing the air from Twowheelnut's tires are zapping the gas in your FJRs and making them boil. Me, I just think it's the occasional clogged vent system showing itself.We were sitting around eating and someone mentioned the post about my "special" bike with the gasoline boiling and it turned out that four of the eight bikes were also "special" and had experienced the same thing.
All of them were '05's by the way.
Are you trying to allude that this is a problem specific to the '05 model? I would find that extremely hard to believe as the 05 is pretty much identical to the 04, and also the 03. Except for color that is. Hmmm......maybe that's it. You *special* folks who rode the little school bus to school, and bought that *special* ugly-assed, slow, blue FJR, get the *special* boiling gas tank.
Yeah, that's the ticket.