I'll do that test tonight and report back what I find out.  To answer some other questions the tank was 3/4 full so plenty of gas.  Thanks everyone!

Groupus,

You have a known issue Groupus, you are posting in a thread where we are discussing your known issue as we help a newbie through his discovery process of what he's got (which is your issue, btw).

"I'm supprised that this has not been brought up as an issue before."

What do you suppose your issue might be, now that you stop and think about it.



.... I can't really believe all the people telling us they are running around on bikes that die out on them at high speed and stop them cold on the roadside, and all the OTHER people who have bikes that have to be revved up and coaxed to keep running when they get caught by a stop light .....  

AND THEY HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT WHAT'S WRONG YET.    

     (shakes his head and sighs)

                       

Bill, get my rocker out and get it set up on the porch, I think I'm gonna go sit in it a while ....

Fry wrote on 08/24/12 at 08:32:39:

As long as you don't have a problem with your float in your carb,  leaving it on won't hurt it.   I've left mine on for several days at a time with no issues.

Your Float system in the carb keeps it from just draining from the tank when the carbs bowl is full.

R.F.

Let Fry make his decisions at his own pace -- he knows where to look when it reoccurs, and he also knows what the other error mode faces the vac sucker can show can be.  

Men can acknowledge something without it causing a need for them to do anything about it right now .... ask any woman, she'll tell you all about it.

Groupus's request for somebody to say "the vac petcock is a piece of shite" is all handled now and Charon is kinda sorta standing up for the vacsucker (or at least he is insisting on factual data, which is always a good thing).   He should have a good time doing so.

I am interested in the poll results, do they change overall any compared to the past or do they stay around 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 as they have in years past.

Folks saying they habitually hand maintain their idle speeds at stop lights is a new one for me -- we have folks attacking that issue by playing with their little side diaphragms on their carbs when they may be having yet another face to the long known petcock strangeness instead.

Alright well I wanted to post a quick update. I've taken the highway a number of times since that day and have not been able to reproduce the problem. Not sure if maybe I tightened up a leak when I pulled the vacum to test out the petcock. Either way for now it's working so I'm going to leave it be.

Hopefully the problem with either never come back, or come back in a way that I can reliably reproduce it. Thanks for the help everyone.

Ahh spring has sprung and Fry is back riding!!  Enjoy