Remove Unleaded Restrictor?

[slowgo]

Has anyone tried to remove the white plastic unleaded gas restrictor in the opening to their gas tank? This is the circular insert in the opening in the gas tank required by DOT or EPA to insure you cannot fit a regular gas nozzle in your tank. I have already taken several refreshing Unleaded 91 showers trying to fill my tank with the restrictor in place, and it would be much easier with it removed. But I am a little worried that there may be some secondary purpose for the restrictor that I am not aware of....anyone taken the leap on this yet?

My first inspection seems to show that it is likely glued in place and I may have to trim out the restricting circle at the bottom to make it a much wider opening.

[rajron]

@ 9.2 to 1 compression ratio its hard to believe that you are doing anything but negative stuff to the environment by using leaded fuel.
It would be best for all if you used the unleaded fuel, the bike does not knock.

[slowgo]

I probably did not give enough info on my first post...I still will use unleaded gas. It will just be easier to fill the tank (and avoid the Zoolander-type gas shower) without the restrictor in place. My local stations don't even have leaded gas pumps.

[rajron]

Yea I know what you mean about the small opening - I thought it helped with preventing splashes, all the way open will let you see in better.

[gt1000]

Yeah, leaded gas is pretty hard to find these days. The first 2 times I gassed up my Buddy, I sprayed a little gas, even though I was very careful. Now I've settled into a routine that fills the tank completely and hardly ever overfills.

I run the scooter into the red section of the gas gauge. When I fill up, I park the scoot ahead of the pump so that I'm inserting the pump from behind the scooter. I pump in the first gallon pretty quickly and then really slow things down to a trickle at 1.2 gallons. I pull the nozzle most of the way out of the tank so I can see the fuel level rising at this point. I just keep pumping until the fuel level its the bottom edge of the sleeve. This takes a little patience but the tank is so small you're still in and out of the gas station in a minute or two.

Some scoots will let you fill up with the pump set on "automatic". I have not been able to do that with the Buddy.

[SteMer]

I'm assuming it's a splash guard as well.

I fill up just like gt1000 - works well and usually only get that one nagging drop when lifting the nozzle completely away from the tank.

[Catalyst]

I must be lost, because I can drop the whole nozzle, dang near, into my tank. I have to lift it, and hold it because the auto shutoff on the nozzle won't allow me to "fill" my tank if I set it down in the tank.

I had a nice lake of gas around the tank opening the first time I filled, since then, I just fill very slowly. It only holds 1.7gallons total, it still takes less time to fill than a car. Then I tap, and tilt the nozzle, making sure that the nozzle is empty before moving it back to the pump. Oh, and I also peer down the tank's openning and watch the level, when I start seeing the surface of the gas in the tank, I know I'm close.

[BlueMark]

Hmmmm .... my Blur has no such restrictor, indeed the filler opening is huge, easily big enough to use a diesel pump if I wanted to destroy the engine. Makes is easy to see inside. Now I wonder if I'm noncompliant with some crucial DOT requirement.

-Mark

[DaBinChe]

last that I check diesel is leaded gas

[BlueMark]

last that I check diesel is leaded gas

Nope, closer to kerosene.