Fuel petcock for a 1978 GS 1000

[pembroke]

Does anyone know of a non vacuum petcock for 78 GS 1000

[Frank Z.]

These guys should be able to help: http://www.pingelonline.com/prodcat/fuel-valves.asp

[tkent02]

You can turn the early petcocks into manual ones. Takes a little work with a file, and a piece of inner tube rubber or similar. Pretty easy to do. I did a write up on here a few years ago...

[Guest]

I looked on the Ebay store where I bought mine, and on Suzuki Parts House.com and holy cow! Almost 300 bucks for the one for the 78! Does it have a gold in it somewhere? In comparison, mine was "only" $65.00.

http://www.suzukipartshouse.com/oemp...ock-fuel-gauge

[Nessism]

I rebuilt a Kawasaki petcock of the same design and it's working fine. Kawasaki sells all the various internal parts though, unlike Suzuki. Guess what I'm saying is that it may be worth a gamble to rebuild.

[Guest]

I found these rebuild kits on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X1978+Suzuki+gs+1000+petcock.TRS0&_nkw=1978+Suzuki+gs+1000+petcock&_sacat=0