He is on vacation for a few days but will be back and ready to do your carbs.
By the time you ship them to him he will be back and he normally turns them around in one day.
That is not true about the OEM petcock failing from a tiny piece of dirt. As a matter of fact the new OEM petcock come with a new super fine screen / filter built in (which by now yours has already deformed and is no longer filtering hence the damage to your engine.)
I have been down the road of , manual petcocks, filter, electric shut off and many other 'preventative' options. Nothing but nothing is better than the OEM petcock, they work perfect always unless you do not maintain them or fail to replace them when they get very old. That goes for anything. Dont blame the petcock, blame the owner.
By the way Brad, when you posted about your engine not running right I was the first person to tell you to do a compression check and that your cam is off one tooth.
You did not listen to me then either. Just saying is all.
Get those over flow tubes installed NOW~!.. dont think, dont delay just do it!!!
I respectfully disagree with you when it comes to the OEM petcock. If it is good as you think it is, there wouldn't be so many Connies in the bone yard because of hydrolock. The valve has to seat against the the head pressure in the tank. If pressure builds up in the tank (and it doesn't take very much - about the same amount as it takes to unseat the float needles), it will unseat the valve. Steve has the facts and figures about the cracking pressure on the float needles. At one time I knew that pressure but I'm an old fart and I can't remember.
In order to stay closed, the valve uses an o-ring seal against a metal seat. It can fail for many reasons, the biggest being its design flaws. If junk gets in there, it can't fully close. The tank filter is not a super fine mesh, so it lets lots of junk into the fuel system. If you don't believe that, do as I did and put a settling bowl between the petcock and carburetor and you will see how much debris you get through the screen. I have read in the post here that people have purchased new petcocks and they still leak right out of the box. Some try to rebuild them and they leak.
Yes, I agree maintenance is the key to keeping these old girls on the road. Mother KAW had its head up its a$$ when it designed the fuel system on the C10. Steve came up with the retro fit for overflow tubes that works to help prevent hydrolock and Mother chose not to. Did you know the 1200 Voyager has the same float bowls as the C10 Connie, but it also has overflow tubes? Therefore, I don't think the EPA was dictating the fuel system design as both bikes were being built at the same time.
