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Homemade petcock...?

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For 80 and 81+ bikes only. Us with the 79 and below petcocks have no other options besides Pingel and OEM.

~Adam
 
For all of us with short-term memory lapses, Pingel is now offering vacuum-controlled petcocks. Didn't look up the $$ though, I'm still looking for the cheap fix. :roll:
 
dpep said:
AOD said:
Well it's nice you don't have to shut the stock units on and off...and prior to this year, I've had no problems with my past two 25 year old petcocks...

~Adam
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This is why I don't go with Pringle. I simply would not remember everytime I shut down to turn off my petcock. I haven't had to for over 25 years, and my instincts could not be that easily reprogrammed. The consequences of the gas overflowing can be both harmful to the bike, and very dangerous, not worth chancing to me. I have the original petcock on my 850, working for 25+ years. The one on my 82 GK stopped working on reserve sometime before I purchased it at 27000 miles. It is a different, smaller unit than the one on my 80 850. This may have been another instance when a later part was inferior to an earlier one. I went ahead and replaced it with stock; I was on the road; the shop had one in stock, and I needed a reserve. No real decision at that point.
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Don, if you can fly a military aircraft, you can remember to turn off a petcock. :wink:

There is some guy on Ebay that is selling petcock repair kits for 19 bucks.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...tem=4547031244&category=35597&sspagename=WDVW
 
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