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Old 06-21-2011, 08:02 AM   #14
blaine
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Re: Turning off Gas

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Originally Posted by geezer
so if its not vac its not a petcock? ok let me go tell everyone i know this new bit of info :lol: anyway if you werent aware most people with vacuum petcocks tend to delete the system all together due to age and diaphrams going out, like on my old 83 midnight maxim. i converted cause fuel was leaking. lots of harley riders also swap due to theres being unreliabe. so here in america only i guess the valveswithnoname i shall refer to them as now are still very alive and kickin
I would buy a rebuild kit,before I ever reverted to the old style of petcock.(also cheaper) Harley had a known problem with their vacuum petcocks,because the high vacuum of the engine,kept rupturing the diaphram's in the petcock.

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