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Second Generation Ascots => The V-Twin Years: Stock To Lightly Modified => Topic started by: hacker-pschorr on June 23, 2018, 01:57:52 pm
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Long story short, I learned how to ride in 2007 (late bloomer, busy playing with cars).
Once I had my license, I learned of an Ascot sitting under a shed at a friends barn. Title in hand, a mutual friend parked it there 5-6 years prior and stopped riding. The farmer said anyone could have it.
We rebuilt the carbs, put on fresh rubber, changed the fluid, battery etc... it fired right up. I rode it for a number of years until the gas tank started to leak in 2012. I parked it, and finally returned to the project this spring.
The fuel system was missing, so I cobbled something up back in 2008 and in the process of fixing the tank, lost those parts. I ordered a replacement petcock and realized I'm missing a special hose since the nipple on the petcock is a lot smaller than the feed line to the carbs.
I knew what I did was a bad idea, but I wanted to get things fired up to make sure it would still work. I simply put the larger hose over the smaller nipple and torqued it down.....yes it leaks LOL
So....what do I need here???? I'm off to the store to find something that will reduce to a smaller fuel line. That must be what I did last time, no idea....
Or is this because I should have the vacuum actuated petcock? Does that have a larger feed nipple???
I do apologize, I know better than to rev the snot out of a motor that's been sitting this long, but I got excited.
https://youtu.be/boP_pPmK38A
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Push a smaller/thinner piece of plastic hose over the nipple first to increase the diameter to fit the rubber hose.
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Good idea, I've done similar things before. I guess I was just curious what was "supposed" to be there.
Using a worm clamp torqued down actually fixed the leak, but I still don't like the setup.
Put about 10 miles on it today, runs awesome. Really feeling bad for letting her sit for so long......