Manual Petcock swap for a GS850L

[noahjar]

I was doing some digging and I found that the 79 750L has the same part number for the tank as the 80 850L. So I was curios if I could just get a petcock off a 79 and just put it on my 80 so I don't have to deal with the vacuum operated petcock?

Thanks for the Help!

[dgates1]

I don't think it will fit due to the CV carbs that are on the 80 model. That petcock hangs down too much.

[lizzywhite45]

Yeah, the tanks match, but the petcock from the '79 might hang too low for the CV carbs on the '80 850L. Could end up messing with the fuel line routing. You can make it work with some tweaking, but it's not a direct swap. Might be easier to go manual with an inline shutoff if you're just trying to ditch the vacuum setup.

[jprice90]

these petcocks are fine, get an oem one and rebuild the old original one. skip the replacements and just try to find an oem on ebay