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Inline petcock

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by Hezekiah, Apr 9, 2010.

  1. Hezekiah

    Hezekiah New Member

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    Has anyone used an inline petcock for their XJ?

    I have a '85 XJ700 with a custom bobber gas tank that is only 2.2 gallons. Needless to say I need to use all that gas, but the petcock is in the middle of the tank and I miss out on the last 0.5 gallons becasue of the slope of the tank.

    My thought is to put a nipple on the bottom of the tank, run a little hose, then an inline petcock, some more hose and then a "Y" to join it up with the current gas line. I could turn off the main petcock and turn on the inline petcock when I want to use the last bit of the gas tank.

    All the inline petcocks that I can find are over $100 (Pingel Engineering), or they say that they aren't rated for over 200cc (Motion Pro). Does anyone know of a $25 or less inline petcock that would work for my bike?
     
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    PainterD Active Member

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    You can get a plastic one from any lawn equipment store to put inline (Briggs and Straton brand I believe) I have one on my other bike as the petcock doesn't always work like it should.
     
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    hardware store brass valve for the icemaker on the fridge to turn the water off I don't think they have any rubber parts in them worth checking out when you go get fertalizer this weeked
     
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