special tank on a standard

[Nightengale]

on my project i have a special tank an a standard bike. i just put gas in the tank for the first time today since i got the tank, and yes leaky petcocks. I am going to rebuild them. i am going to run just one fuel line from each petcock to the carbs. I was wondering since i will have the petcocks apart for the rebuild, is there some way that i can seal up the other fuel line connection from the inside, and maybe just cut off the unused connection. instaed of going the traditional route of plugging it with a piece of fuel line and a bolt or something similar. I thought this might clean up the look without having a fuel line to nowhere. and if you have looked at my build thread you know i like stream lined, simple look. any advice would be appreciated. thanks in advance.

[DGXSER]

Crazy Steve posted a mod on this a while back. He took the petcock apart, and threaded the hole that leads to the prime outlet, he then put a small bolt or set screw in it ( I believe it was a set screw so it went flush) with some thread lock on it.

Honestly, once you have the petcocks rebuilt and get used to turning the petcock between ON and OFF, you could leave the PRIME outlet unpluged as it will never get gas anyway. But, if your going to take the petcocks off and open them up, Steve's fix would be a good idea.

[crazy steve]

That would be this.... http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...338#post357338

[jjz28]

i just put a rubber cap on mine.

[crazy steve]

i just put a rubber cap on mine.

The only problem with that is there isn't any caps that are rated for fuel exposure; numerous people have looked for one. That will work as long as there's no leakage going on at the petcock and/or you never turn the lever that direction...

[DGXSER]

I agree Steve's modification is a nice fix.

But I do understand that drianing the tank out, and disassembling or removing the petcocks is a bit of work to do during riding season on an otherwise good to go bike. Personally, I still have a couple stubs of fuel line with bolts in them on each petcock. Been there for years, and no issues to date.

Now, should I have a reason to empty the tank I would probably go ahead and put this mod in place.

[Nightengale]

steve

i did see the mod steve did and yes that does seem to be the way to go. thanks guys for the advice.

[jjz28]

The only problem with that is there isn't any caps that are rated for fuel exposure; numerous people have looked for one. That will work as long as there's no leakage going on at the petcock and/or you never turn the lever that direction...

mine will probably disolve then cause my petcock leaks and i have set it to prime several times cause i cant see the words on them while sitting up and hadnt remembered my position yet. I have only had them on there about a week so i will probably do the mod, i dont have tags on her yet so i still have time to do stuff on it and i have the xs750 tagged so i can ride too.