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Johnod
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 04:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Just discovered the 90 degree inlet fitting is missing. Just a brass stub left, glad I discovered that before it became a problem.

Can someone tell me what position the new fitting should be, straight up and down or angled back?

Thanks
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Gowindward
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 08:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

On my bike it points up and slightly towards the bike center.

(Message edited by gowindward on April 19, 2016)
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Ebutch
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 08:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

John:Parts book shows up position.
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Johnod
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 08:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Thank you both.

I never noticed it was broken when I took it apart.
When I went to install it today, I couldn't find a barbed fitting, only a little knurled stub.
Figured that doesn't look right.
And it wasn't, so the parts book revealed.
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Jolly
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 10:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

that stock fitting is junk and prone to fail or break, its a sure source of a leak!

pull the brass knurled fitting out and replace it with a brass elbow instead of the two piece stud and plastic fitting...

available at any HD shop, as its a common "upgrade"

here is correct "stock" plastic fitting and orientation...






plastic fuel inlet fitting


upgraded to brass fitting


brass fuel inlet fitting
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Jolly
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 11:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

don't try and pull it with pliers you will crack the carb housing around the pressed in fitting and it will leak no matter what you do!!! ask me how I know this...learned that one the hard way...now I have a parts carb sitting in a box that I have needed to take parts from every once in a while over the years....

use a tap and thread the inside of the fitting, then make a puller from a metal sleeve or spacer or even a socket, use a washer a nut and a bolt...

fit the sleeve or spacer over the housing that the little knurled stud is pressed into, then set the washer on top of that, thread the nut onto the bolt, slip that through the washer and spacer/sleeve, thread the bolt into the newly threaded stud, then use the nut as a jam nut spinning it down towards the bottom of the bolt against the washer and it will pull the assembly up and out......simple little puller and the stud comes right out!
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Johnod
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 11:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yep that's what I did Jolly, read it online.
Have ordered a new brass piece too.
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Johnod
Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 09:03 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Does the fuel line route behind ,or in front of the mounting bracket?
I have it behind now, seems a rather tight fit, so I'm wondering???

(Message edited by johnod on May 10, 2016)
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