Hello Everyone,

I am fairly new to the boards, been reading and learning what I can.  I have a problem and am lookin for some help.

I have an 87 Savage, 5035 miles, of which I put about 1000 on in the past couple of months.  Everything ran wonderfuly fine, until Friday.

The bike was hard to start, everything spinning like it should, but just would not start up, tried half choke, full choke, no choke, throttle open, closed, middle, etc.  Finally she cranked up (after just a minute or two, but that was not normal).  She ran fine, when I went to start again, while engie was still warm, the same thing but not quite as bad.  Maybe it is just getting cooler here.

Saturday I found a good puddle of gas on the floor, dripping from the tube that comes out of the breather, as best I could tell.  I drained the gas and there was alot of fine stuff in the inline filter.  I cleaned that out, put the thing back together, cranked her back up, no leaks.  Let her sit a couple of hours and still no leaks.  I rode maybe 20 miles, same starting issue, but no leaks.  This morning another big puddle of gas.

I am not sure why the gas is leaking, but there is gas in the vacuum hose from the petcock to the carb.  I saw something about that somewhere, I thought on this board, but I cannot find it anywhere.  The gas leak is with the valve in the on position, not prime.  When i took the fuel line off the gas would not run out in on or reserve, but it did in prime, as it should.

I am currently draining the tank, will get a replacement for the vacuum hose (it appears to be OK, but now is the time to prepace it).  I guess I am going to pull the tank and take the petcock apart.  Is this the proper plan of attack?  Is there something else that would cause a leak like this?  Any help wold be greatly appreciated.

Sorry if this got long, but I wanted to be as clear as possible.  As far as I know there have been no mods to the carb, etc.  I did put in an inline fuel filter, but do not think that has anything to do with this.

Thanks
Mike

Thanks verslagen1

At the risk of seeming even more simple than I am where do I get a diaphram, and where do I check out the replacement with the quad part?  Are these suzuki parts or aftermarket?  It is about 70 miles to the parts store and back and they are closed on Monday anyway.

Also, how do I know if there is gas in my oil?  I have been fortunate never to have seen that.  If there is, I guess an oil change is in order, but is there anything special to do?

Thanks
Mike

verslagen1

Again, thanks for your help.  Online I found the petcock only comes as a unit to the tune of $70 at bikebandit.  I could not get ronayers microfiche to load.

I took the tank off and the petcock apart, it appears there might be a bad spot on the diaphram, but I realize it could look normal and just be wore out, so that is not 100% reliable, I am thinking.  

When you say quad petcock, do you mean as in a ATV quad, that is what i found when i did a search.  I certainly do not expect you to do what I can do myself, I am just a little confused, which is not too out of the ordinary.  

I am on my way to town now, I will get a friend to look at the diaphram and see what he thinks.  I will also get some fuel line to replace the vacuum hose and a spark plug while I am out, since the tank is off anyway.

If I remove the vac line and cap both ports, I will need to turn off the fuel when I stop, correct?  Then there will be no reserve either, right?  That might be an option as opposed to spending $70 right now.

Again, thanks for your help and I will let you know what happens.

Thanks again
Mike

I believe the quad petcock that is being referred to is from a Raptor. Try a search using Raptor Petcock as your criteria.

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1220924835/0

Here ya go, did the search for ya since I'm bored anyway.  

Yonuh Adisi FSO wrote on 11/10/08 at 10:58:29:


I'm new here also. The diaphram on my petcock was bad too. (Just bought a '97 Savage) I ordered one from Ron Ayers last Monday. The price was $17.xx for the petcock. They said 7 to 10 business days. It has not arrived yet. I couldn't navigate the Ron Ayers site so I just called them and told them what I wanted. I asked for a 2003 Raptor 660 petcock. I hope the salesman picked the right part! When my part comes I will post their part #. It should be on my invoice. Since shipping a few little parts is as cheap as one little part I added an oil filter and air filter to my order. The oil filter was $3.xx and the air filter was $26.xx. Wish I wouldn't have ordered the air filter. Now I want to put a K&N cone filter on.  

prechermike wrote on 11/10/08 at 12:35:20:


In my opinion, you will never find a better bunch of bikers than this place right here. The guys and gals on this site have helped me more than I can say.

Mike send me your mailing address and I'll send you one I've got A BUNCH!! No worries I've got some extra stamps and if I can spread the wealth (not like obama)   its the least I can do. This forum has helped me out alot, so its payback LOL..

Thanks again to everyone that offered their assistance.

I have ordered the parts from Ron Ayers, they did not have them in stock and they would have had to order them, which would have taken just as long and I would have still had to go and pick them up.  Anyway, they should be here Wed or Thur of next week.

I can probably find enough to keep myself busy until them, even though I will miss riding Thumper.

Again, thanks for all your input.  I will post again when I am ready to get back on the road.

Mike