Warning!!!!!!!

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Don't ever fill your tank and leave the bike sitting in the sun!



So much for MY weekend.

[lee_dutcher]

Don't ever fill your tank and leave the bike sitting in the sun! So much for MY weekend.

wow....it got that hot to ignite? sorry to hear about your misfortune...

[dbeardslee]

Dang, Okie - that's a heck of a tank tumor you've got going there. Bummer on the paint, dude. If the tank got that hot, how did the seat feel when you sat on it?

[Bigge_al]

kinda looks like mine

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Nope....didn't ignite.

Just expanded the fuel and it came out of the tank and crawled up under the paint and made a BIG blister in the paint, filled with gas.

[mxmikie]

it looks like lindzies new ankle braclet

[lee_dutcher]

Nope....didn't ignite. Just expanded the fuel and it came out of the tank and crawled up under the paint and made a BIG blister in the paint, filled with gas.

ohh sorry i cant see the pics on my phone...well somtimes i can somtimes i cant..

[fredintoon]

You are not alone

Don't ever fill your tank and leave the bike sitting in the sun! - - -

Hi Greg,
unless you drain it first, don't take the tank off and lean it nose down against the garage wall neither.
That will get you the same result.
Gotta go back to the Special tank until the repaint.

[tarzan]

Hi Greg,
unless you drain it first, don't take the tank off and lean it nose down against the garage wall neither.
That will get you the same result.
Gotta go back to the Special tank until the repaint.

I did that with an XS850 tank a couple weeks ago.I had painted it a few months ago. I don't think I will paint with spray cans anymore.lol
I had clear over it too, but for some reason not even the clear is impervious to gas.

[XSokieSPECIAL]

I used Hi Temp clear the last time and it was doing real well but my dumb a$$ filled the tank and parked it right in front of the front porch ( facing east) early in the morning not thinking about what would happen when the sun fully came up.

[81xsproject]

I did the same thing last year on the way to work. I filled up at 5am and 40 deg then rode the last bit to work. When I cam out at 4 it had been leaking for a while.

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Heh heh heh......puppies, clouds. cute kittens........nice, nice ,nice.

Isn't it a nice gay beautiful day.

[DGXSER]

Had the same thing happen to me on Thunderstruck, filled the tank and parked it on the sidewalk at my moms house which was less than 1 mile away, came out shortly and found fuel spewing out over the tank. Luckily, I was only there a few minutes, so I could simply wash it off with no damage.

Also painted the tank and clear coated with Dupont on Banshee, then got fuel on it and peeled all the clear and half the paint I put on it.

[XSokieSPECIAL]

The high heat clear is pretty resistant but the fuel got underneath the paint when it happened and bubbled the he!! out of it.

SOOOO... now the tank is hanging in the garage getting repainted and it still looks like shzit.

I've got another tank I've got to get cleaned and I think Powder coat is the way I'll go with it.

[GARTHXS]

I couldnt resist

the bubble almost looks like its flippin you off