Sorry - no pics, despite the title. But for while I was wrestling with the petcock on my v45 Sabre. Dang thing leaked and filled my entire engine crankcase with fuel.
After draining the oil/gas mixture off, I refilled it with oil, and now I'm using my new petcock - a BMW R75 petcock. It just so happens that BMW used the same threads on the R75 that Honda did on this particular bike. Weird too - they only used it for like 2 years on one model. 20mm with 1.0 pitch threads. normal petcock - 20mm with 1.5 pitch threads. Go figure. Well - anyway, at least BMW came through for me, and it was NIB and 50 bucks cheaper than the Honda petcock.
Sweet!
So I filled the tank back up and took her for a ride today.
Scared the heck out of me - for the first 15 minutes or so it smoked like a demon, huge billowy clouds of white smoke poured from the mufflers. Make me think that I blew the rings or something.
Must have just been residual fuel in the crankcase or something - after about a mile or so it stopped smoking and rode on like a champ.
BMW to the rescue!
