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Message started by makk98 on 04/15/08 at 18:41:05

Title: petcock troubles
Post by makk98 on 04/15/08 at 18:41:05

petcock is hard to turn,took it apart and found out that little spring thing inside is all bent up and wont contact the diaphram plunger thing.now i have no fuel as opposed to only a tiny bit before.I've seen talk about a manual conversion but cant find it on here.Any help would be good?Can't buy parts ffor it youhave to buy the whole thing. :-/

Title: Re: petcock troubles
Post by steely on 04/15/08 at 19:08:47

If you are looking to rebuild, you have to buy the whole thing. I have tried to rebuild one of the old Suzi vacuum operated petcocks before (the ones they made rebuild kits for)... that way lies madness. Check here for the how-to on the conversion to on/off: http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=tech;action=display;num=1113631600

I wish I could get you another spring, but I just sold the old and busted petcock I had on here last week.

Title: Re: petcock troubles
Post by makk98 on 04/17/08 at 18:59:12

thanks steely I was going to just cut off the nipple end of the diaphram but then it would be on all the time.

Title: Re: petcock troubles
Post by T Mack 1 on 04/18/08 at 10:53:30

Our local hardware store (Ace or Sentry) has a big cabinet full of draws and draws of different size springs.

Maybe take the old spring and the petcock to your local HDWR store and see if they have the same display.