Subject: RE: Fuel Petcock Problem
Author: Keith Ruff
Date: Jun 5, 2002, 6:48 AM
Post ID: 1710378191
Good points, I'll go buy some extra fuel line and test each petcock
individually to see if they are working. There is gas in the lower
lines (below the "T" from the left/right fuel lines), so the bowls are
probably full. The upper halves of the fuel lines were dry (above the T
going to each petcock) and that is where the fuel refused to flow into
when opening the petcocks, wasn't until after I loosened the hose clamp
that air escaped and the fuel flooded in and backed up out of the hose
by the clamp. I just wonder with the clamp tightened up again if air
will not go back up into the tank and she will run dry again.
Keith Ruff
71 Police Ambassador - NJ
Bruce Giller wrote:
| Keith, My guess is that the carb float bowls were full and the floats didn't let any more gas into them. And the air in the line did not go back up into the tank as I would suspect it should have; no idea why it did not. And when you loosened the hose clamp, the air escaped from the line and was filled with gas from the tank. No vacuum was in the line at all. Why not just attach a line to the petcock outlet, and drain gas into a container to see if the petcock is working? What you can do (which is messy) to test the carb float bowl, is to loosen the cap on the bottom of the float bowl and let fuel out of the carb (this will mimic high speed riding) into a container whilst having only one petcock on at a time. Then you can see if gas is flowing out correctly out of each petcock with the carb 'in line'. Bruce '72 Eldo Keith Ruff wrote:
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