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     Rex |
Court, I will be rebuilding an S2 from spare parts, and I wanted to check on the under gas tank. I heard that some were defective. what should I be looking for to make sure I have a good tank? I have two spares to pick from. rex | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Court |
Rex: There were 3 fuel cell related recalls. I **think** from your description the one you refer to is 95V116. Here's the scoop:
If. . . a HUGE if. . . I recall correctly there were no problems, just the possibility of a problem. The drill was that dealers were provided with a new TESTED tank, replaced the one on the bike, sent in the tank they took off, it got tested (pressurized and dunked in water) and checked, marked and sent to a dealer . . repeat process. There was some sort of a mark put on the tanks that were tested. In your case:
I'm thinking that, in your case, the tank is not necessarily associated with the bike so you're gonna be doing the test yourself. Pick up some bubbles . . . Pressurize the tank and paint the seems with the bubble fluid. (If you have any bubble stuff left over you have my address, right?  I totally love that crap) That's it in a nutshell. Answer your question? Here's the correspondence to and from from Buell to the Feds that sheds a bit more light. This one to me was not very worrysome. Court (I can see why the folks in Milwaukee hate me. . . . )  | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Court |
Files too big . . sorry. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rex |
thanks, REX | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mikej |
How much pressure are we talking about here? I picked up a spare tank from Sauk City Buell/H-D a few years ago, might have to test it if I ever put it to use someday. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Court |
How the hell should I know ? ? ? . . . dip the bubble wand in the bubble fluid . . blow gently and see what it takes to make a bubble. Add 12% to that and apply that amount of positive pressure to the tank . . . frankly, I doubt it much matters . . so I'll leave it at "just enough". Can you tell I am doing homework? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mikej |
Thanks. So, I will use slightly more than a puff and a bit less than a full blow, got it. (sure hope nobody looks in the garage while I'm doing this) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| S2pengy |
The tanks that were installed on my bikes after the recall had a number etched in them on the petcock boss facing out...The number was not all the same it may have been sequential but I am not sure.. My prerecall tanks did not have this so I have always used it as a way to determine pre and post recall tanks.... |
