Naked electricals inside fuel tank?

[Trossman]

Yo Bros

I have just finished repraying my 2008 Fazer 1000, during the course of which I removed the fuel pump/fuel gauge sender from the bottom of the fuel tank.

Whilst re-assembling the same I noticed that there are bare electrical connections to the pump/gauge sender, which, when the tank is filled with petrol, will be below the top level of the petrol (worst case) or above the fuel level in a volume full of fuel vapour.

Can anyone re-assure me that this is how they are supposed to be, or have I lost some part/cover during the respray process?

Yours truly

Male Biker afraid of blowing his bollocks off

[Fazerider]

At normal temperatures, so long as there is some liquid fuel present, the ratio of petrol vapour to air will be much too high to burn. It's a bit counter-intuitive, but very low temperatures, just above the flash point (-46ºC) are when you could potentially have an explosive mixture. Of course, you'd need the electrical bits to be arcing too to provide an ignition source.

[Phil TK]

Yo Bros

Oh please....

[BIG MAC]

It is far simpler to accept that they are all like that than wonder wtf is going on...I imagine the technos will tell you that the electrics are 'Instrinsically safe'