What the hell is a Triumph Exploder?
(Proper made me laff, did that!)
Well it was supposed to be an Explorer 1200. But when a fuse went in the fan and it then overheated and chucked its coolant all down the street in Italy, and was recovered to the local triumph dealer (who were excellent in dealing with me right away) they diagnosed a blown fuse. Then in order to refill with coolant and test that all was OK, the only way to bleed the cooling system is to remove the fuel tank and run it up to speed with a special tool fuel tank. The tank can only come off if it’s very low on fuel and then the balance fuel hoses need to be removed and blanked with special plugs.
exploder - well that was me! What a horrendous situation, how the hell are you supposed to do a repair in the wild! This is “supposed” to be an adventure bike - what a load of tosh.
anyway, I got home to UK a few days later and partx’d it immediately for another ZZR1400
never another Bloor Triumph for me after that.