We have all been watching for the first "fuel in sump" episode that resulted from a Raptor converstion. And by all, I mean all of the folks who have converted over to the Raptor, so it isn't just me or Routy looking.
We have had two persons (who both admitted having bad float needle valves as a pre-existing condition before they put the Raptor on) who had gas in the airbox still after their Raptor conversion. Both immediately replaced said needle valve and fixed their issues. Gas in airbox only, none in the sump according to the two people involved.
We have ONE (1) person, Joe F who says he dropped his bike and had fuel leak out because of the Raptor, but he has not come back to provide any of the details.
He has been PM'd, but has not replied as of yet at all. Routy needs to get up with the man and get him to talk to us, as we all really do want to know his story.
Eventually, we will get a gas in sump episode. Somebody will park a bike at an odd downhill angle or have it fall over and lay in the parking lot for a few hours or some other set of odd circumstances will make one happen.
It's been several years now, but it hasn't happened yet.
So the watch continues .....
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Question for Routy,If 50% of the people taking the last poll (21 of them)
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1345820468/45#45 all listed bad vac petcock symptoms and flat said that the Raptor made all the bad stuff stop ---
are all 21 persons delusional?=====================================================
Cheap Chinese LONG DROP PETCOCK for $16 shippedhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Right-Hand-Suzuki-LTZ-400-LTZ400-Fuel-Gas-Petcock-Pet... Looks like folks have started peddling the Chinese rip-off of the long shank Raptor petcock fairly cheaply --
of course somebody has to actually order one and try it out before we will all KNOW it fits up properly.Watch out, they are saying it has a RIGHT HAND gas nipple location which would be correct, depending on if you really are standing beside the left side of the bike looking straight on to the side of the tank. Still,
$16 with shipping is a lot better than Yamaha pricing of $24 with $7 shipping on top of that.