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Well, I'll spell it out for you oldtimers,......OP will know more about it also,..... We were speaking of the Petcock "itself". I haven't seen any evidence of the petcock "itself" giving any problem (like diaphram rupture) in less than a 10 yr old bike,....and I'll even go 15 yrs on that now,.....and not to say that it couldn't happen.
No matter what you guys try to get new members to believe, the truth is,.....most all times that a "hi speed" lack of fuel problem comes up, it is a lack of vacuum supplied to the petcock, whether it be a bad vacuum hose, clamps, or a lack of vacuum supplied by the engine itself. And of course,.......doing away w/ an automated saftey device,.......changing to a manual shut off style petcock, is going to eliminate any of those potential problems that very likely will not come in the first 5-10 yrs.
Why don't you guys admit that when a carb is flooding,.....fuel running out the air intake, that 99% of the time it is the float valve, not the petcock ??!
The problem here is that w/ the "petcock paranoia" you guys got going here, is that every little fuel problem that come up gets blamed on to the petcock, and causes an unnecessary change out that seldom fixes the problem. It just seems like you guys would be smart enough to know that if the petcock was even 1/4 the problem that you guys pretend it to be, it would have been replaced by Suzy many.....20+ ?? yrs ago.
The newbys can believe what they want to, but they deserve to know the truth......from reading 3 years of this forum,....and other research also does not support what is posted here.
Me, I'm headed fishing !
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