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And the Adventure Begins.......

11/6/2014

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I don't know how it always happens. We have a calendar months in advance, and we always seem to scramble to finish line. This trip however was off to a fantastic start. So good in fact, Blaster had finished up the 12K maintenance 2 weekends in advance. Sounds good right?

When he goes to start up the bike, it is puking liquid down both sides. A bit more investigation, and the liquid is identified as fuel. Fuel from a location that he didn't do any work in that area.
So a while back BMW came out with a recall on a bunch of bikes for the fuel locking ring, well this effected both the Adventure and HP2. I wasn't really in a hurry as it sounded like the locking ring for the entire pump in the tank. Well it really isn't the locking ring as I found out last night, it's a main fitting in the pump housing which ends up cracking and puking gas all over the bike in some real volume....not good! I guess I am glad it happened at the house in the garage and not on the road somewhere as it could have ended quite differently.  This is not mine but it looks just like this.
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A bit of good fortune, the local BMW dealer thinks they can have it fixed by this weekend. We shall see.
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