fuel petcock problems

[Mike Frey]

Replying to my own reply: I've been guilty of taking a short ride in a bike and seeing the condensation in the oil sight glass, and/or the milky looking oil. It goes away after a day or so. Modern oils that haven't depleted their additives can handle this, they will hold light amounts of condensation in suspension and then release it. There, an oil thread without the synthetic vs dyno vs moto specific opinions. (I use Mobil 1 15W50 or Shell Rotella T) (oops, I blabbed) Mike Frey wrote:

  All of my Kawasakis are easy to tell if the oil has warmed enough to evaporate the condensation: you can see it in the oil level window until you've gone about 10 miles. Every bike from the 250 Super Sherpa to the 1200 ZRX will have milky looking oil for the first 10 miles, then it rapidly disappears. Brand new oil does the same as oil with 1000 miles on it. I go about 2000 miles between changes.

[Tengai Mark Van Horn]

At 12:10 AM +0000 11/19/10, hjogden wrote:

>Had an unpleasant experience today when the fuel petcock outlet >spigot (where the hose to the carb connects) popped out. Could have >been worse I suppose. Does anyone know what is supposed to hold >this thing in? Something with such a potential for serious problems >should, in my mind, have a positive means of locking in place. I >can't see anything there - am I missing something? Has anyone else >had this problem? Thanks > >Hal in Halifax

I epoxied one back in about a decade ago. It had held fine since then. I used JB Quick epoxy. Mark