{"id":71291,"date":"2012-05-02T20:46:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T11:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=71291"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:27","slug":"gsx1100s-fuel-cap-key-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20120502\/everyday-events\/gsx1100s-fuel-cap-key-episode","title":{"rendered":"The GSX1100S Fuel Cap Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day, Ninpoco&#8217;s bike had gas dripping from the cap,<br \/>\nand when I took it apart, I found it had a spring-plate-like mechanism pressing the rubber gasket in place.<br \/>\nThe rubber&#8217;s tension had weakened, so it would leak when the tank was full,<br \/>\nso I cut a paper gasket, tightened it down, and that fixed it.<br \/>\nBut the owner said they didn&#8217;t like that! Since only the cap was available, we went with a combination approach. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63250617_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>There&#8217;s no reason it can&#8217;t be taken apart \u2605 \u2191 The protruding plate is the stopper.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a spring inside that gets pushed out when activated. Since it doesn&#8217;t pop out, it&#8217;s safe. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63250617_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It&#8217;s designed to catch in that groove <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63250617_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>I see, pretty clever<br \/>\nA note to remember \u2605<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day, Ninpoco&#8217;s bike had gas dripping from the cap, and when I took it apart, I found it had a spring-plate-like mechanism pressing the rubber gasket in place. The rubber&#8217;s tension had weakened, so it would leak when the tank was full, so I cut a paper gasket, tightened it down, and that fixed it. But the owner said they didn&#8217;t like that! Since only the cap was available, we went with a combination approach. &nbsp; &nbsp;There&#8217;s no reason it can&#8217;t be taken apart \u2605 \u2191 The protruding plate is the stopper. There&#8217;s a spring inside that gets pushed out when activated. Since it doesn&#8217;t pop out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[65,55],"class_list":["post-71291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gsx","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}