21-06-12, 05:53 PM
(21-06-12, 05:11 PM)peterjca link Wrote: I have a hard time understanding these diesel spills. Like Lawrence just said, it's not the odd splashes, but long continuous wide trails of the stuff down straight roads (not a roundabout in sight) that you can only avoid by riding at the very edge of the road or riding on the wrong side of the road.
This "type" of spillage seems to be far more common these days.
What's going on? I just don't get it!
To add my tuppence ha'penny worth to this, a lot of modern diesel cars use the HDI engines, they have a fuel pump in the tank which feeds the rail system in the engine bay, if anything goes wrong in the fuel system eg leaking pipe or poorly fitted filter this pump forces the fuel out under pressure and drops a lot more fuel than the old lift pump on the engine system.
If you worried about falling off your bike, you'd never get on.