I was asked by Groupus why nobody had ever raised the issue of the stock vac petcock being a piece of shite."My goodness !!" sez I "Perhaps we need another petcock war as none of the current crop of newbies has ever seen nor read that the Suzuki Savage Stock Vac Petcock Is A Piece of Shite".
(amazing, ain't it)I will quote the illustrious Serowbot's Axiom:
1/3 of the people have already had issues with the POS vac petcock
1/3 of the people will soon have an issue with the POS vac petcock
1/3 of the people (who ride bone stock and rather slowly) will never have an issue with the POS vac petcock because they never go past half throttle, ever.If you want to raise the odds of having an issue with your vac petcock to NEAR CERTAINTY LEVELS -- just put a low resistance air filter system on your bike. It will make your bike run better by lowering your air intake resistance
(which is another way of saying "lower your system's input vacuum level" and thereby making sure your vac sucker will screw up on you).
Or, you can simply wait. Somewhere between 7-15 years of use and ALL FIVE of the KNOWN VAC PETCOCK FAILURE MODES will come in turn to sit on your shoulder one right after another and shite a streak down the back of your leather jacket.
Me, I think vac petcocks should be removed as soon as they are seen on anybody's bike in order to keep from damaging your engine.
You see, when you have those little "trucking along at a good speed and suddenly the bike chokes off and dies on me" episodes
you are leaning out your engine mightily during the protracted choking and coughing and dyeing, which does some minor progressive damage to your piston.
But some of you don't learn, and keep on doing it for years .....
So, what can be done about these piece of shite stock petcocks?
They are nothing but trouble, you know.
So how can YOU overcome your "barriers to intelligent action" and DO something about your evil vac sucker?Denial isn't a long term option (although oil consumption and piston slap is, apparently)
Let the festivities begin ......