Gas Top Up - Nozzle Stuck ON

M8's.

Had a real shocker twice last month.

Put a bunch of miles on my bikes this summer and twice in a short time I had
the gas nozzle stick open on me as I was filling my bike.

I had gloves on and I guess the carbon fiber knuckle guards some how caught the lever.

That was a real panic attack, twice...and most times I am sitting on the bike.

Heads up...shit does happen.

DD Wrote:
"I thought that you could not pump your own gas in Oregon."

Car no, motorcycles, they let us...lot of picky HD riders with fancy paint jobs....
The attendants hands the nozzle to you and hangs it up.
When the timber industry went away there were lot of people without of jobs back in the 80's.
We, I, voted for no self serve at the gas pumps to create some jobs.

Har....so use to letting the attendants pump gas, went to the Bay Area ( San Francisco, Ca.) for a semiconductor show,
got gas and let the attendant pump the gas, a lady dressed to the hilt filling her $100K car just gave us the worst tosser look I ever had given to me....
cracked me up...not in Oregon any more...

DD Wrote: "I never leave my gloves on."
Really ? Never ?? Calling BS on this one DD My bud puts gloves ON when he fills his DeSmell Pick um up truck.


ps..hope you be doing well...I have been.. cheers dude ....

Don't your nozzles have the auto-stop feature when the fuel reaches the end of the nozzle?

There is a lever that you set against the valve handle that trips when the car tank is full.
We don't use that for filling bike tanks, just the valve handle.
There was a odd combination of events that I have yet to figure out what really happened, but I believe the carbon fiber knuckle cover tripped up with the lever.
It was stuck on, as in wedged. I had to really twist my hand around to get the valve to close.

Yeaks !
Happened again yesterday.
No glove on this time.
This time I had to pull out of the tank with the gas still coming out.
I shot the gas away from the gas pumps onto the concrete.
Lucky there was not another car near by, or a person walking by.
I am thinking there is a lot of pressure with some of the fast /powerful pumps that over work some of the valves in the nozzle.
I have a habit of filling the tanks with the valve open 100%.
No more....

Just jaber jawing with a bud.
He said there is a sensor that will trip the pump off when the gas tank fills and blocks the end of the fill nozzle.
I'll give that a go next fill up.
Test will be valve open, stick the nozzle down into the gas to see if that trips an auto valve turn off.