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Reply #15 - 04/21/08 at 13:49:17

Steve M wrote on 04/19/08 at 21:50:41:

If you look up an online parts store called wemoto.com and browse to Suzuki savage they stock lots of savage parts.
You can get a repair kit for petcock for about $15 that includes all seals and diaphragm, I just did mine last week and put it together with a smear of silicon grease on the internals. It works like a dream now and moves smooth and easy between positions.

Fuel Tap repair kit, 7.05 pounds ( ?? approx $15 if I recall correctly)... but picture is everything but the accursed diaphragm.

I remember seeing a rebuild kit on eBay for a Suzuki of a different model and earlier year, but... the pictures were almost identical to ours.... Can't seem to find it now Sad

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Reply #16 - 04/21/08 at 14:44:37

Steve M wrote on 04/19/08 at 21:56:04:

Further to my last if you can't get hold of a repair kit I could buy some and post to one of you to pass around to any folk who want one if your interested. ( I would just want the cost of buying and posting).

Could save some of you quite a bit of money.

Thanks for the offer. I am going over to Britain at the end of April and will look into the repair kit. When I got on to the website you mentioned, I looked up the repair kit for the fuel valve and in the photo they gave I only saw some bolts, spring and O rings and no diaphragm. Does the repair kit you mentioned come with a diaphragm ?
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Reply #17 - 04/21/08 at 14:46:49

T Mack 1 - FSO wrote on 04/21/08 at 13:49:17:

Steve M wrote on 04/19/08 at 21:50:41:

If you look up an online parts store called wemoto.com and browse to Suzuki savage they stock lots of savage parts.
You can get a repair kit for petcock for about $15 that includes all seals and diaphragm, I just did mine last week and put it together with a smear of silicon grease on the internals. It works like a dream now and moves smooth and easy between positions.

Fuel Tap repair kit, 7.05 pounds ( ?? approx $15 if I recall correctly)... but picture is everything but the accursed diaphragm.

I remember seeing a rebuild kit on eBay for a Suzuki of a different model and earlier year, but... the pictures were almost identical to ours.... Can't seem to find it now :(

Looks like I duplicated your question about the diaphragm or lack of in the rebuild kit.
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Reply #18 - 04/22/08 at 07:07:20

Steve M wrote on 04/19/08 at 21:50:41:

If petcock is on prime the pressure can over power your float on carb bowl causing it to overflow through carb jet holes in engine intake. I know someone who did this with a Yamaha XJ900 that has same type of petcock and all 4 carbs overflowed through the jet holes in engine intakes. It caught fire and destroyed his bike!

It can also just seep through under normal pressure if the carb is worn. I’ve not known it set fire to a bike, but I know of 2 cases where bikes with leaky float chamber valves have allowed fuel to seep through into the cylinder and hydraulic locked on start. Try spinning a bike up with more fuel in the cylinder than the compressed chamber volume and, hey presto, you get a bent rod and/or cracked cylinder.
I always make sure fuel is turned off when I walk away from a bike – especially on old stuff where there’s no vacuum petcock.

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KwakNut Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 332 Sheffield, England, mostly. Gender:	Re: Found the problem, what next? Reply #19 - 04/22/08 at 07:09:23 DocNeedles wrote on 04/21/08 at 14:46:49: Looks like I duplicated your question about the diaphragm or lack of in the rebuild kit. DocNeedles I just ordered a kit up gents so should be able to tell you what it includes by the weekend.
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Steve M Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 60	Re: Found the problem, what next? Reply #20 - 04/22/08 at 10:12:48 I have just looked at this and realised that the wemoto repair kit doesn't include a diaphragm. Sorry guys I thought it had but suppose the diaphragm in my fuel tap must of been ok. The kit contains all the O ring seals, new spring, 2 new bolts and bolt sealing washers. Sorry for confusing people.
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