My 97' leaked viciously when I bought it in '06... before I found this site...
Took me ages to figure it out on my own...
... an 04' I bought in 09' had a leaky one too...
... another one I bought, an '01 I think, had chewed up that ridiculous spring under the knob and was impossible to turn... it was stuck in the prime position...
I've put about 6 Raptors in Savages, including mine, Jerry's, and former member NickA's...
Can't remember how many I've bought and sold in total, (probably 8 or 10),... and four had bad petcocks... That's why the PO sold them, because they, or their mechanic, couldn't figure it out......
Them's bad odds...
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Google "vacuum petcock"... and you'll find a buttload of problems in many models of bike.... It's not unique to the Savage, or Suzuki...
It is unique to the vacuum operation...
I don't have to convince anyone that they go bad... new members have been coming here for years hunting for the solution to this baffling problem...
The problem is,.. so many of them have boogered up other things on their bikes while trying to fix it, before they figured it out...
You can do a lot of carb damage trying to fix a leaky petcock...
I'm trying to save them from that...
Always test your petcock, first...
How to check your petcock,...