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Old 01-14-2018, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Gwaxley
You forgot to add to pee on your feet in the shower..


For the life of me, not sure what all the doomday post think one cap will hurt. I have seen a hand full of crap in there on the bottom.
 
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So, I'm being very careful not to drip anything on my gas tank and open a bottle of Sta-Bil over the gas tank hole and ..... the inner cap falls in the tank.

Do I:
a) Forget about it and pretend it never happened.
b) Empty the tank, remove the tank and hope it will come out.
c) Sell my ride and leave town.

And yes , I tried to find it with one of those pinchy claw things. No luck.
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A. It won't hurt a thing....
 
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If it were the actual top cap, would be fine. It being the peel back foil, I would find a way to retrieve. I would think that could find a way to flatten and block something
 
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The inlet to the fuel pump is a flat double sided prefilter screen that has 20 times the surface area of that cap.
 
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my buddy did the same exact thing on his road glide. he kept rocking the bike until the gas sloshed around enough for him to see the cap with a flashlight. then he used one of those flexible claw grabbers to extract it. try it, you might get lucky like he did. good luck
 
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. Norton Adblocker blocks those pop ups on Safari. Also blocks inserting photos though, so I have to use Garage Talk for that. It would be nice if IT would fix the problem, that only occurs on here.
I use Adblock Plus,no problems and no trouble with pics.
 
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Originally Posted by H King
So, I'm being very careful not to drip anything on my gas tank and open a bottle of Sta-Bil over the gas tank hole and ..... the inner cap falls in the tank.

Do I:
a) Forget about it and pretend it never happened.
b) Empty the tank, remove the tank and hope it will come out.
c) Sell my ride and leave town.

And yes , I tried to find it with one of those pinchy claw things. No luck.
What do you think you should do?
 
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Old 01-14-2018, 10:40 PM
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c) Sell my ride and leave town.
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"A" is the correct answer, IMO. However, if you're as OCD-prone as I am, you could take out the fuel pump as suggested in a previous post and find it with a flashlight and fish it out.
 
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Originally Posted by ultra_classic
did it float to the top? or drop to the bottom. if it floats fill the Tank and grab it with tweezers or extra long needle nose pliers
Unfortunately, it sank.
 
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