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Originally posted by rphillips View PostI don't know how to create a poll, but Suzuki GS petcock rebuild, Did it work for you?
Not long after that, the brass inlet pipes came loose on both of my petcocks, so I epoxyd them into place and had no trouble for a couple of years until the vacuum diaphragm went leaky.
At that point I replaced it with a manual tap.---- Dave
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I have one of those flat ones without the lever on my 850GL. When I took it apart, the diaphragm and O-ring (although a little sticky from sitting for a long time) were good, but the rubber check valve it had all but disintegrated. Ended up blowing the pieces of it out. So the petcock works in the "ON" position but will not hold vacuum in the "PRI" position. No rebuild kits come with this check valve (Number 5 in the drawing). Not even sure you could get it installed if they did. So I ordered a whole new petcock but K&L has had them on back order for some time. They do still make it, but all of the distributors are out of stock. They are saying they should ship sometime this month.
Doesn't really answer your "poll" but if you have one of these, rebuilding is not really an option if that check valve is shot.
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Nope... I always just buy new OEM. I think it's only half down to the seals, the Petcock itself wears so any new seal set might work for a while but not for long as it doesn't have as much material to play with1980 GS1000G - Sold
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Yes it did, only had to refresh the O ring seat and replace the O ring. That was 15 years ago still functions as designed.
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