Its not the key lock....
Its the internal latching bars and mechanism.. pull the thing off, disassemble it, scrub it well with scotchbrite pads, and grease every nternal latch part with lithium grease...
http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=20069.0
Better yet (much better), grease the internal bits with aviation fuel lube. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/ezturnlube.php is but one example. The small 5oz. tube can be handed down to the grand kids.
Rick
Better yet (much better), grease the internal bits with aviation fuel lube. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/ezturnlube.php is but one example. The small 5oz. tube can be handed down to the grand kids.
Rick
Ordered a 5 oz. tube of this stuff. Kinda spendy at $12 plus shipping, but as I don't want to make lubing the gas cap a regular maintenance item necessarily, it should be worth it -- and thanks for the tip.
Get some grease from the auto parts store with Moly in it. It is cheap and has cured my sticking latch for over a year now. Dont put it in the key part, take apart the latch, remove the white corrosion and smear some moly grease on the parts that slide.
Its not the key lock....
Its the internal latching bars and mechanism.. pull the thing off, disassemble it, scrub it well with scotchbrite pads, and grease every nternal latch part with lithium grease...
Ive'm currently looking for a local metal plater thru my vast network of engineering contacts, to offer up an affordable option for some plating that is better than that damned zinc chromate conversion, and jnplated aluminum bars.. I'll post up when I get a good source for plating all the parts that matter.. untill then, scrub, and grease them..
Prevention is the best medicine here. If at all possible, do NOT let the bike sit for any significant length of time with Ethanol-laced fuel in it. See :http://www.pure-gas.org/For sources near you!
https://www.amazon.com/Plug-Plate%C2%AE-Nickel-Electroplating-Kit/dp/B009XELF08
Maybe anodizing.... http://www.caswellplating.com/anodizing-products/anodizing-kits.html
"We do not recommend plating aluminum directly with our Plug N' PlateĀ® kits." I think aluminum, which is what the gas tank cap is mostly made of, is difficult to plate with anything.
I think the parts in question, the ones that corrode, are not aluminum but "pot-metal" which is cast zinc. I could be wrong because I've not checked it but if it is aluminum, then it could be easily anodized vs. plated.