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I went to a Chevron station to top off my tank after a ride this morning. The Chevron had just been renovated and has all new pumps and equipment. I stuck the nozzle in the tank and the end of the nozzle bottoms out on the hump in the tank before the vapor recovery seal engaged with the neck. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the gas to flow.
CA (and some other states) have vapor recovery systems that also sense when the tank is full and click off flow of gas. They also recover gas vapor and won't flow unless the seal engages.
I just went to a different station up the street that had a longer bellows on the seal mechanism and filled up no problem. Won't go back to that Chevron.
Anyone else ran in to this issue?
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I've seen guys use this thing.
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I haven't inserted a gas hose into a motorcycle tank in many years.
I hold the nozzle in my right hand and with my left hand pull the black boot back far enough to trigger the flow.
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Same here. Back in the 90s, all of the gas stations around here had the bellows type vapor recovery systems (for some reason they don't anymore). My standard practice was to operate the pump with my right hand and use the left hand to slide the seal up the nozzle. As I recall, I only had to slide it up a couple of inches to activate the pump.
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Yup. Somehow with my first few fill ups I didn't have any problem just putting the nozzle in, but then I ran in to one that bottomed out. Luckily I was riding with RandyB that time and he showed me that you can just pinch the thing with your left hand. I just do that now no matter what the nozzle is like.
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Florida used to have those, and they were a real PITA. Now the vapor recovery is built into the nozzle.
While we're on the subject, I find the CB difficult to fill without splashing on the tank. Without an accurate fuel gauge, its important to fill it up completely. But with most pumps its difficult to start and stop the flow without spewing out a big blast of gas, so getting the fill up to the top without splashing gas is difficult.
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(01-20-2014, 03:34 AM)The Spaceman_imp Wrote: Florida used to have those, and they were a real PITA. Now the vapor recovery is built into the nozzle.
While we're on the subject, I find the CB difficult to fill without splashing on the tank. Without an accurate fuel gauge, its important to fill it up completely. But with most pumps its difficult to start and stop the flow without spewing out a big blast of gas, so getting the fill up to the top without splashing gas is difficult.
The CB is not as bad as some bike tanks but it is difficult to avoid splashes, especially on pumps that you have to squeeze really hard to get gas flowing.
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I always keep a few fingers of my left hand between the lever and the handle so you can not suddenly pull it up all the way and splash gas all over the tank.
It will not hurt your fingers !!!
I do wish that the opening of the tank was a little larger ,I always fill the tank at home before I go on e ride using a can and funnel,sometimes difficult to see the level of gas in the tank but you can hear when it gets full.
