Nortorious
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After pulling my tank off today I found the petcocks could stand replacing so I'm considering getting new ones. See the pictures. So question #1, what are the best ones? Should I go with the ones at Andover Norton (reserve and main)?
The second question may be irrelevant if I'm replacing the petcocks, but it's a curiosity. The fuel reserve didn't work. I got my new 1973 850 running yesterday and took it out for it's first proper ride today. I opened the left side petcock only (which I think is the main one). I got about two miles before sputtering and figured it was fuel (it was), and opened the right side petcock while sputtering out. It didn't come back to life. I pulled over, opened the right petcock so both were open, and found that I wasn't getting fuel. I found that the gas was pretty darn low (see attached photo of tank at the time), but why didn't the reserve save me and deliver the last bit of fuel? After leaving and coming back to add gas it started right up, so it was definitely low fuel.
Cheers,
Mike
The second question may be irrelevant if I'm replacing the petcocks, but it's a curiosity. The fuel reserve didn't work. I got my new 1973 850 running yesterday and took it out for it's first proper ride today. I opened the left side petcock only (which I think is the main one). I got about two miles before sputtering and figured it was fuel (it was), and opened the right side petcock while sputtering out. It didn't come back to life. I pulled over, opened the right petcock so both were open, and found that I wasn't getting fuel. I found that the gas was pretty darn low (see attached photo of tank at the time), but why didn't the reserve save me and deliver the last bit of fuel? After leaving and coming back to add gas it started right up, so it was definitely low fuel.
Cheers,
Mike