Indian Tradegy

[Baytown]

G'day everyone.

You need to look at this video. It's enough to make you cry. I won't post
details, but it involved a dear friend of mine and they didn't do anything wrong. One of those things. It happened a few weeks ago in Finland.

Check your fuel lines!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-kCR6bH7gs

Best wishes.

Ken.

[Ohio-Rider]

Your right Ken. That is sad enough to make one cry. I can only imagine the owners pain in watching his baby burn like that. I'll be looking at my fuel lines today, you can bet on that.

[Baytown]

Best thing is that no one (especially my mate and his son) were hurt.

Jeez, I can't spell tragedy either!

[Chris Haynes]

In California it is illegal to use copper and a fuel line. Yet it seems that every Indian I see had copper fuel and oil lines on it.

[74moto]

Our hearts are with You, Brother!!!!!!!!!!

Hard times don´t last but strong people do.

J and K

[George Greer]

Ouch!!!

Chris... I saw quite a few harleys at Dinlkesbuhl AMCA meet with copper fuel and oil lines.

I won't use it.

As a matter of fact, I have been working on my WLA just this past weekend just to stop a pesky fuel seep that always bothered me.

George

[Coolbreeze]

Another Vintage Iron Rider member and I have had our Chiefs burn under us. You got that right -- we were on the bikes when the fires started. One fire was caused by a split in the soldered seam of a gasoline tank. The other was caused when the bike was run without muffler and exhaust pipe (header only) + only the left tank had a fuel line connected + the right tank had gasoline in it. The vibration of the engine caused the spigot on the right tank to turn open, which allowed raw gasoline to run down the side of the bike. Without an exhaust pipe, the header was shooting ~8" flame when the trottle was closed. It looked "cool" until raw gasoline hit 8" of flame. Then, it got quite hot.

Both Chiefs survived the baptism of fire.

I still have copper gasoline and oil lines. I have had a seam split whilst on a run and experienced raw gasoline hitting a hot engine. Fortunately, there was no fire that time.

Every now and then, I see a horrifically expensive small fire extinguisher for either a Harley or an Indian on e-bay. Does anyone know where a reasonably priced fire extinguisher can be found that one could mount in a convenient place on a motorcycle?

[Chris Haynes]

Every now and then, I see a horrifically expensive small fire extinguisher for either a Harley or an Indian on e-bay. Does anyone know where a reasonably priced fire extinguisher can be found that one could mount in a convenient place on a motorcycle?[/QUOTE]

Those are carbon tetrachloride extinguishers. Now illegal in most places as they are a really bad carcinogen. Breathing the fumes can cause cancer.
eBay sellers always list these brass extinguishers as being Harley or Indian. If you look in the old H-D Accessory Catalogues you will see that extinguisher. When you read the description of it the first word you see is CHROME. Those brass ones were sold in hardware stores ETC. and were not a Harley-Davidson accessory. I don't know what the Indian people sold.

[23JDCA 808]

Every now and then, I see a horrifically expensive small fire extinguisher for either a Harley or an Indian on e-bay. Does anyone know where a reasonably priced fire extinguisher can be found that one could mount in a convenient place on a motorcycle?

I favor the Halon extinguishers although I have not had to use one. I keep a 10 or 15-pounder in the middle of my garage floor. I favor these over the powder types as you do not have to clean up powder afterwards, and it won't be sucked into the engine.
Problem is, if you have continued gas flow and a source of spark, you will be fighting the ongoing fire. There is a limit.

[Paps]

I thought they banned Halon ? I saw the stuff do its' job before. It works well. Paps