petcock adultery

[David Bell]

My petcock has been weeping a bit. Today I had the tank off anyway doing some wiring so I took it apart by just setting the tank on it's front (it only had about a gallon in it). It's pretty simple. I laid the parts in a row and the only things I could see were that the screws that hold it together were not really very tight and the diaphragms looked like they were not really in there very smoothly, they had little wrinkles around the edges. The tiny little posts next to the screw holes were not really going through the holes in the diaphragms. I basically just smoothed them out and made sure they were in correctly and put it all back together and it quit leaking. I ordered one of those kits that blanks off the whole vacuum mechanism but I'm thinking now I'll just throw it in the tool bag for an emergency fix rather than take the tank off again. I'm also thinking I won't turn the petcock off and on every time I stop because it will wear on the gaskets. Without vacuum there is no gas coming through, so turning it off seems redundant. ----- Original Message ---- From: Russell Scott To: KListeRs DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 5:11:31 PM Subject: RE: [DSN_KLR650] Petcock adultery Rev, I didn't fix mine, and on a steep mountain trail you talk about, the angle was just right, and gas got into the air box. A fire started while still moving, and I noticed my leg getting very hot. It burned up the air box, half a side panel, my seat, one hand guard, and wiring harness. But being a KLR, we managed to get it running, and I rode it back to camp. Lesson learned the hard way. R -----Original Message----- From: DSN_KLR650@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogro ups.com]On Behalf Of revmaaatin Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:14 PM To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogro ups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Petcock adultery List, I caught my bike 'passing-gas' to someone other than the carberator. That amounts to petcock adultery. It took a while to figure it out-- as it was leaving a tell-tell stain on the engine case when I wasn't looking. But I kept watching, waiting, and THERE IT WAS! Passing gas to the engine case instead of the carberator!! !! Better in my garage, than on a prairie or mountain trail. Lesson learned: keep watching! It finally got bad enough to see, and then it was actually scary-dangerous! Petcock rebuild parts enroute from Fred. Q. Are there any pitfalls that I should know before taking the petcock apart? revmaaatin. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]