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Offline mrbreeze

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Re: Fuel petcock physics.
« Reply #25 on: July 13, 2006, 07:50:58 PM »
I read halfway through this post and just had to jump in before reading the the whole thing.My bike runs great through the range but does ocasionally exhibit a couple of different shortcomings.I had a condition where it would act up at a stop.It was like all the sudden,a plug wire was pulled off and I was running on 2 cyl. but it kept running.Then you just wrap the hell out of it and everything is fine.Right before I went to the Berkeley meet,I drained my tank,checked my petcock filter(it was perfect) put in high $ Chevron gas and it was fine....no prob whatsoever.......until I got to the Gilman St. offramp at Berkeley!!! It did it again!! I revved it and it cleared up and was fine the rest of the trip (another 100 miles). It does'nt do it very often but I wonder about having the fuel lines routed below the float bowls.When I rebuilt my carbs last year and was having probs,Cben posted saying to do do away with the undersized inline fuel filter.I did that and noticed an improvement but still think I should get those feeder fuel lines above the float bowls. They sure don't give you much room to do it though.What about those Pingle fuel taps? Anyone running one?
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Re: Fuel petcock physics.
« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2006, 08:36:20 PM »
i believe T.I.A. is running one...pm him and see...
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Re: Fuel petcock physics.
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2006, 08:57:21 PM »
Ya unless you forget to turn the petcock on.....been there and done that....the accelerator pump on the K8 can't fix that problem...