Vented tank/fuel cap?
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Vented tank/fuel cap?
I have an 89 FLHS with 12,600 miles that I took in trade + $ for an aircraft. (Yes, I'm a Harley bunny, pardon the ignorance...) It's my first Harley and both myself and my better half have fallen for it. I'm also a pilot and she flies with me once every 25 years (now 12.5) but she wants to ride the Harley more often.
Day before yesterday I did a 100+ mile ride out to Springfield MA and back again to Boston... I ran the tank pretty much to the bottom. When I went to open the tank for refueling it did the whooosh as air rushed in. I was a bit surprised, are these tanks not vented? Isn't the fuel cap supposed to be vented?
I also think this might have been the cause of the bike stalling on the way back from Springfield. As long as I gave it throttle it would run. When I released the throttle it would stall and die. It stopped doing it as I arrived in downtown Boston and didn't do it the next day before I refueled. ??
Day before yesterday I did a 100+ mile ride out to Springfield MA and back again to Boston... I ran the tank pretty much to the bottom. When I went to open the tank for refueling it did the whooosh as air rushed in. I was a bit surprised, are these tanks not vented? Isn't the fuel cap supposed to be vented?
I also think this might have been the cause of the bike stalling on the way back from Springfield. As long as I gave it throttle it would run. When I released the throttle it would stall and die. It stopped doing it as I arrived in downtown Boston and didn't do it the next day before I refueled. ??
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I have an 89 FLHS with 12,600 miles that I took in trade + $ for an aircraft. (Yes, I'm a Harley bunny, pardon the ignorance...) It's my first Harley and both myself and my better half have fallen for it. I'm also a pilot and she flies with me once every 25 years (now 12.5) but she wants to ride the Harley more often.
Day before yesterday I did a 100+ mile ride out to Springfield MA and back again to Boston... I ran the tank pretty much to the bottom. When I went to open the tank for refueling it did the whooosh as air rushed in. I was a bit surprised, are these tanks not vented? Isn't the fuel cap supposed to be vented?
I also think this might have been the cause of the bike stalling on the way back from Springfield. As long as I gave it throttle it would run. When I released the throttle it would stall and die. It stopped doing it as I arrived in downtown Boston and didn't do it the next day before I refueled. ??
Day before yesterday I did a 100+ mile ride out to Springfield MA and back again to Boston... I ran the tank pretty much to the bottom. When I went to open the tank for refueling it did the whooosh as air rushed in. I was a bit surprised, are these tanks not vented? Isn't the fuel cap supposed to be vented?
I also think this might have been the cause of the bike stalling on the way back from Springfield. As long as I gave it throttle it would run. When I released the throttle it would stall and die. It stopped doing it as I arrived in downtown Boston and didn't do it the next day before I refueled. ??
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Right now, gliders. I belong to a club near Boston, fly Blaniks and Schweizers. I am restoring a 1965 Italian wood-construction 15 meter sailplane,. an Aer Pegaso M100S. I just sold my BD-5J Microjet to another crazy jarhead, but I still hold the Guinness record for the world's smallest jet. 
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That's what I was thinking. It's in the shop now for the 10,000 mile check that I didn't know if it had been done or not. I will ask when I go pick it up, unless they noticed it already. Thanks!
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