Subject: Re: hating fuel valves
Author: Ian Adkins
Date: Aug 21, 2001, 8:21 AM
Post ID: 1707945208
Dave,
I had the same problem with my OEM petcocks as well. Where were yours
leaking from? Where they screwed into the tank or at the lever?
On one bike I used updated petcocks (for the later models) that I got from
MI. They work great however the left side interferes with the carb. So I
installed an old one on the left side.
What I found was that the little gasket inside the tap gets hard and dry and
fails to seal over time. New ones will work and what I did was to use a
little bit of oil initially to be sure that there was no binding. So far so
good.
One person (can't remember who it was) suggested that if you are a "one
side" only user you should open and close the unused petcock periodically to
prevent it from drying out. I need to do this on my bike but will do it here
at the house before going on a trip to be sure it doesn't start leaking.
Of the few peeves I have with these bikes the fuel has been the biggest. I
initially had to deal with leaky carbs, lines, gas cap, and petcocks. Quite
a pain. Fortunately I seemed to have worked out the gremlins and all has
been well. Now that I have said that I guess I have jinxed myself.....DAM!
and the Adirondak Rally is coming up this weekend.
Touch wood!!.....touch wood!! Pheeuw. I feel better now.
Regards....Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: dj-@dotis.com <dj-@dotis.com>
To: Loopfram-@topica.com <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Date: August 21, 2001 9:28 AM
Subject: hating fuel valves
I just swapped the tanks on Norine, and used new fuel valves, because I
wanted nice shinny ones, they leaked like crazy, there was no position I
could put the levers that would shut off the fuel flow completely, I went
through 2 sets of new ones and they all leaked, so I went to the parts bin
and went through a pile of used ones and finally got a pair that didn't leak
and looked decent. What a pain! Anyone had these issues with the new ones? I
know we talked about new gaskets for fuel valves on the list before, anyone
successfully fix thier's? Also my nice shinny gas cap didn't seal, I fixed
that with a cork gasket. But Norine is ready to run now with a shinny tank.