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Originally Posted by mgentz
I bought a brand new one that leaked within 3 months. If the above works I will be more than delighted. The stock ones suck.
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When did you buy this?
I ask because my original one had what looked like a deformed Teflon ring inside that the O-ring could not seal against (portion was missing). Others have found the same problem in theirs. Neither the ring nor the part it is permanently attached to are replaceable without buying a whole petcock.
I ordered a new one and it does not have that Teflon-looking ring thing at all. I guess they revised it. The thought crossed my mind that it was the same defect (completely missing as opposed to a portion missing), but it does seem to work (stopped the leaking).
The thing is, mine was NOS from perhaps a couple years ago, so it's hard to pinpoint when they revised it. I bought it from an eBay seller who never opened it. Even then, the fuel filter part was broken from being bent in the package (thanks, Kawasaki
). It, too, doesn't appear to be replaceable.
Amazon has a ton of petcocks and repair kits that say they fit the J-bike but I doubt the petcocks fit and the repair kits probably do not fix the units with the deformed Teflon ring problem. I've had these links in my Amazon cart for the last couple months:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...A1TFBK3C7LO58P
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...A3TGC5XRRCX4P2
Also, this one looks like a generic with reserve, which may work:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=APWEXLRBMNT4U
You'd probably have to plug the vacuum line, since it seems to speed up the engine when disconnected (unless that's just me?).