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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2016, 04:57:58 PM »
Brett,
manual on/off conversion of orignal taps is a piece of piss and free. Just dremmel the little nib off the plate with res/off/pri  and that will allow you turn the knob all the way to the 12 oclock position. now you have an off position. done it to both of my bikes and not had a problem since.
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2016, 02:10:31 PM »
John, waiting on a call from the trimmer about my seat, looks like I wont get it back before I go back to WA. I finally bit the bullet and rebuilt my petcocks, seem to be ok now. I would love a manual on off like Bryans but yes not cheap tried to find other options but cost was always a factor so just rebuilt originals.
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2016, 02:06:17 PM »
Hey George that would be awesome, might be too late to have them ready for the rally. but if you do ask if John from Ulladulla could bring them down for me or message on 0407896613 and I will organize some payment plan for postage + :)
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2016, 07:52:29 PM »
See you There  ;D
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2016, 08:10:56 PM »
No nibbles. But yu have to advertise it first....maybe after the rally
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2016, 05:35:47 PM »
Hey Bretts  what are you up to . I am really thinking of changing to after market taps I run secondary filters which are a pain because the room is tight  :-\  but those taps are not  cheap.

Hey George any nibbles on the XS

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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2016, 09:25:48 PM »
I'm an old Air Conditioning tech so I would make them out of copper pipe.  Probably have to spin it down in the lathe to fit properly. Either that or bore some steel rod and turn it down.  I'll have a look at my old taps and report further..........
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2016, 08:33:03 PM »
Hi George

Tell me how do you make them ??
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2016, 08:45:48 PM »
Want me to make some new internal pipes for the tap for you.?????
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2016, 07:00:20 PM »
Bummer
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2016, 12:45:23 PM »
The bit that protrudes into tap is broken of both of my internal filters :(
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2016, 12:23:08 PM »
Filter looks in good shape So a bit of thread tape around the protrusion that goes into the tap. With a punch taped it home seems OK
if that had not worked I would have tried to center pop tap side still have tape on filter put small washer on alloy tit that locates filter and would have tried to center pop tit to hold washer and secure filter
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2016, 09:00:56 AM »
Did it go back in ok, mine are buggerd. I have tried to glue them in but I figure that's not going to last. Oh I just bought some copper tube. Maybe I can make my own.
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2016, 05:21:11 AM »
Correct
Mine was floating around the fuel sender float.
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Re: Fuel tap Reserve position faulty
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2016, 11:38:52 PM »
The internal petcock filter is probably not isolating from run to reserve. So lower level fuel still gets to run port.  That's what's up with mine anyway.
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