Pushing the motorcycle out the the front yard 30 feet outside while I let it leak on the gravel and rush to shut the gas water heater pilot off, then returned to stop the leak and clean up the puddle inside the garage. All seems well. the new valve is installed but in my rush to refit the leaking hoses I twisted the reserve and main hose over one another creating a rather sharp bend. But since it seem to run well and not be affected I stored the Honda back in the garage and went into the house to cleaned myself up.
After cleaning up I remembered I had shut the water-heater pilot off so I returned to the garage when I heard what sounded like water leaking, gasp! Gas was gushing out of the valve hose sand there was an even bigger puddle in the garage. I grabbed the bike and wheeled it hemorrhaging into the canter of my huge back yard, then rad back in and grabbed a blanket to quickly absorb most of the gasoline taking blanket to the center of the back yard also to let it evaporate while grabbing a gas can and 5 feet of gas line to stop the wasted 5 gallons of fuel from pouring into the gravel.
Rather the trying to figure out what was leaking in the valve/hose connections I just siphoned the gas strait out of the tank and pinched off the leaking hose at the valve assembly.
What happened was that the hose I had left the tight bend in parted and opened under stress. Even though the 5 year old hoses looked and felt new, the new unusual bend I had placed on them was enough to stress them out and par open one the main fuel tank hose.
Lesson learned. never let your experience confidence get in the way of basic fundamental safe practices. If I had drained the tank as I normally would I would have never been pressed into making a bad connection on those hoses, I would have taken my time to make sure they were properly routed stress free from the tank to the new valve.
After what almost could have happened I will never do something like that inside the garage again.
Oh and on top of all of that I now cant seem to get my 3 year old water heater pilot restarted and will have to call Sears to fix it under warranty parts as the labor warranty rand out last year. Oh well it was a lesson well deserved and learned which could have been far worse, so I'm actually thankful and grateful .
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