Hey all, so Here's the issue. A while ago I had a tiny, slomo drop from a standstill. Ever since the bike has been running kinda rough, sputtering and stalling when riding in the lower rpm band. I asked about it and people suggested I clean the carb so I decided to give seafoam a shot and it ran fine for a couple of weeks after that. Then the same problems started happening again, so I enlisted to help of a friend who pointed out that since it runs fine on "res" but not "on", it would mean the petcock is the culprit.

So I picked up a raptor petcock and just finished installing it today, and it ran poorly still. I had a question about plugging the vacuum, I found a rubber plug that fits perfectly snug over the valve but I wasn't sure if it was adequate enough. Ill get a picture of it soon. Anyways, if the bike is sputtering and stalling even after replacing the petcock, wha should be my next step? Full carb cleaning and rejet?

My second question involves a small leak that is only apparent at the end of this bolt near the left footpeg. I felt around the bottom of the block and frame and really couldn't locate the origin of this leak. I also saw a tiny bit of oil on the front cooling fins, seemed to be coming from this nut on the front of the block, so I tightened, but I saw no direct link from that leak to the one on the bottom of the footpeg.

Any help would be appreciated!

Yes I plugged the carb where it used to link to the old petcock with a rubber thingy. Ill try to get a pic up soon, but it's basically a rubber piece that covered a bolt's thread on a car part I bought online


And regarding the leak, I did stumble across this post (http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1253732708) so ill be tackling that ASAP. Thanks Digger!

Alright thanks guys! Ill get on that carb disassembly, cleaning, and fresh jets and hope that cures it! Where should I purchase the jets?