corksil
September 27th, 2013, 12:31 PM
It's a very loquacious gas cap. I've been considering singing lessons so I can sing with it -- but it only sings one note and would only serve as a backup vocalist.
It's a pretty high pitched wail.... Kind of like "eeeeEEEEEEEEEEEeeee" like it's lamenting a lost comrade or something of the sort.
I have tried reassuring it, singing back to it (kum-bye-yah and mary-had-a-little-lamb) -- I'm not sure what else to try. Sometimes it sings at stoplights, sometimes it sings when I walk away from the bike and head into a store.. sometimes it sings for no apparent reason in the evenings outside my window long after I've gotten home for the evening.
Also noticed that when it sings -- if I push down on it quite hard, it changes the tone/pitch of it's song.
Not sure if that's air entering or escaping the tank -- but after a long ride at constant unchanged high-rpm the bike sputtered out and died once -- exactly the symptoms of fuel starvation. Which would mean that the cap is not allowing sufficient air to enter the tank -- causing a vacuum, which prevented the gas from siphoning.
Surely someone else has experienced this. What should I try?
It's a pretty high pitched wail.... Kind of like "eeeeEEEEEEEEEEEeeee" like it's lamenting a lost comrade or something of the sort.
I have tried reassuring it, singing back to it (kum-bye-yah and mary-had-a-little-lamb) -- I'm not sure what else to try. Sometimes it sings at stoplights, sometimes it sings when I walk away from the bike and head into a store.. sometimes it sings for no apparent reason in the evenings outside my window long after I've gotten home for the evening.
Also noticed that when it sings -- if I push down on it quite hard, it changes the tone/pitch of it's song.
Not sure if that's air entering or escaping the tank -- but after a long ride at constant unchanged high-rpm the bike sputtered out and died once -- exactly the symptoms of fuel starvation. Which would mean that the cap is not allowing sufficient air to enter the tank -- causing a vacuum, which prevented the gas from siphoning.
Surely someone else has experienced this. What should I try?