Why no quick disconnects on the fuel lines?

Regular maintenance on the VFR requires servicing of the air filter and most engine service benefits from removal of the fuel tank for access. So I ask, why didn't they install quick disconnect fittings in the fuel lines? My Ducati had them and they worked awesome!

On another note, has anyone installed a set of aftermarket fittings?

 

This is an edited old post of mine Jethro,I was too lazy to retype it. :tongue:

I installed a dry-break quick disconnect fuel fitting in my fuel return line only. That's the side that absolutely leaks like a sieve when you remove it.

I didn't feel it was really necessary to install one in the high pressure fuel line too since it's easy enough to just remove the banjo bolt (Yellow arrow in the pic) that connects the fuel line to the bottom of the fuel pump with minimal gas spillage.

 

Yep that was what was on my Duc and it was so easy to pull the tank with them installed. Next VFR gets a set!

 

Sure, it's easy: Ducs need so much more maintenance; and Hondas need so much less is why, plus the extra cost that makes Ducs rich-guy poseur elitist status-symbol bikes for fashonistas mostly.

 

What a crock.....

LOL.

No offense intended but that's a curious thing then my friend because my Ducati (which doesn't have any fuel quick disconnects at all on it) runs like a champ,rarely ever needs to be touched,has no stupid R/R issues,and requires that only 2 panels and a grand total of 8 fasteners be removed and I have access to the entire machine.

While my VFR800 (which does have a fuel quick disconnect installed on it) currently doesn't run at all,requires constant attention (which is why I installed the fuel quick disconnect in the first place),had to have it's stupid R/R issues addressed,and requires that literally dozens of fasteners be removed (some of which are made of cheap plastic which breaks so easily that they need to be replaced nearly every time you remove them) and nearly half the bike be disassembled to do almost anything on it.

Allow me refresh your memory Squirrelman. Do you remember the location of the water temp sender and thermostat housing on the 6th gen. machines?

I rest my case.