It get down to that, doesn't it?
With the vac petock in place there is so much "noise" and so many conflicting symptoms that you can't proceed with confidence to do much of anything.
Take all of that murk out of the water (replace vac petcock with a Raptor) and suddenly whatever is still wrong sticks out very clearly.
Now in this particular case, we shall see won't we? What remains, if anything once the vac petcock is out of the picture?
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Do you want to fix your vac petcock instead of replacing it? Veslagen is the best source for the issues that come back to see you AFTER you fix your vac petcock. The VAC HOSE is the first re-occuring item, Veslagen routinely replaces his vac hose yearly as a preventive maintenance item. Second thing an occasional time/occurace based rebuild of the rubber diaphragm for stiffening or splitting. This is years and years and years between needing, but it will happen. Each time it costs as much as a $15 powersports Raptor would cost just to buy the diaphragm rebuild kit.
Lastly -- do all the vac petcock symptoms disappear completely even with this rigorous routine of rebuilds/hose replacements?
Honestly prevails, Verslagen admits to seeing occasional mild occurrences of high speed fuel stumbling (I keep telling him to keep up with these stumbles and plot his oil consumption against them on his freshly rebuilt motor but he just growls at me)
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OK, lets talk about the times the Raptor change out didn't fix the various issues that the newbies drug in behind them when they first arrived.
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We are still waiting for that list of newbie items the Raptor change out didn't fix. Routy says he's got some, so I am sure he will tell us (in good time, give him some time to do his research).
I call on the newbies themselves to speak up if the Raptor didn't fix it -- we got a crow bet on this so this is serious stuff now.
Yes, I went out and shot a big buck crow and I got him in the freezer should I need to thaw him out and munch on him.
Eventually, I know I am gonna get to take me a bite of musty crow (but so far the crow is intact)
Now, will those that say there is nothing wrong with the stock vacuum actuated petcock agree to sit down with me at the crow table and make the counter bet -- that changing out the vac petcock doesn't fix/help anything?