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In 2002, two months after I bought my r1150, I was stranded on a coast road. My bike stopped running and fuel was dripping down. I called for a tow to a dealer, (closed on Sunday) and the tow truck drive gave me a ride home. Picked up the bike the following week and the dealer told me that he had replaced these “disconnects” and I would not have any more problems......

After learning about these disconnects, I finally ordered a metal set from the boneyard, but never installed them. I thought maybe my disconnects would be ok.... well, yesterday morning, while warming up my bike for a Saturday ride, guess what.... fuel dripping down from the disconnects. Canceled the ride and this morning went to work to install new disconnects. Discovered the male plastic piece had cracked and a slight pushed snapped it completely off.

I couldn’t get the stock clamps to come off without using a dremel to cut them off. A little dicey with sparks flying around fuel vapors.... and then it took a lot of swearing to get the old parts to come out of the tubing... installed everything and all is well. A good feeling looking at the new disconnects and proper clamps.

Moral of story. If you havent replaced your plastic disconnects, do so because they WILL fail and probably not close to home where I was lucky the second time around......

Sage advice indeed. If you are still running the stock connectors it's not a matter of if, but when they will leak.
One of the first mods performed on the 2002 when purchased.

Thx for the heads up. I haven’t had the chance to even look under the tank of my new-to-me ‘03. Assuming if I understand correctly that the bike came with plastic disconnects that are destined to fail? I’ll have a look maybe I’ll get lucky and find that a P.O. already swapped them out.

You’re lucky if they only start leaking — mine let loose with a high pressure spray that soaked my right leg in seconds. Change ‘em now.