I tried to copy and paste from the General board, but the pics didn't work....here's a link to the General Board thread..
http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,3945.0.htmlStanley...
What Grumpy sez makes sense, but I'm unable to perceive a difference (or take a
good picture of small things )... if there is a difference, it seems it would
have to be that little lip you can see on the inside in the picture on the left...
Perhaps Grumpy is right, or perhaps Grumpy had a bad experience with a poorly fitting
coverset like you you have... It is hard to imagine that BigBF wouldn't know about the
difference, or that he would assemble your cover set wrong, but anything is possible...
Anyone else ever hear of this difference?
I put a little rubbing alcohol on these old parts and put them together both ways
several times... both sides seem similarly well stuck together...
Don't fret so much about the petcock vacuum line... remember it was easy after we
ditched the impossible new spring clamp and used the old one...
And... I've been thinking about this all night... did we replace bolt number 25?
Everybody... the inside of Stanley's airbox was very clean, but there was only one
gasket (number 3)... there was one in the housing, but not in the cover.
I made good time on the way home last night... I went down to Lexington and went all
the way back to I85 on 77... Georgia has some of the best country roads I've been on...
Carolyn's sitting next to me reading Daniel Meyer's book laughing...
-Mike
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I have found it pretty darn hard to put them together. If yours went easy, I would guess it is wrong. Sorry.
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off again???......
From: Grumpy (WGurney) 12:49 am
To: CandyMan.... (StanSteamer) (2 of 3)
13531.2 in reply to 13531.1
Stan, the fuel valve is assembled wrong, I had the same problem last year. I had changed the diaphragm and made the round trip to Johnson city, a week after I got back the fuel stopped flowing, dismantled the valve and found the little aluminum piece was in backwards. It will fit either way, but if it is right it is hard to dislodge the diaphragm off of the plunger. If it is not correct, it will bite you again.
Bill
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The Green Dragon LIVES.......again.....
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Well, ...Mike Marshall came over today and we tore into the Valk...there were a few things we decided we'd do...replace the vacuum hoses, petcock vent hose, and we decided to replace the Intake O-rings after he noticed a little black stuff at the bottom of the tube on the right side...so off came the tank and we started taking clamps off of the intake tubes so we could pull them loose....
While we had those tubes out of the way, we did the string trick to pull the new vac hoses back to where they go...the one old tube on the middle carb on the left side was pinched together pretty close to being completely blocked...was THIS the culprit??..hummm...maybe...
I'm SO glad we took as much stuff off as possible because it made a difficult job a LITTLE easier...putting the tube up on the pair valve was going to be REAL hard to do, SO, we decided to take some of the air box tubes loose to get some more room to work...and it worked fine...we never actually pulling the air box all the way out...and made sure we got the boots back on right before clamping them down again...
We got the new tubing run and connected and everything back together and only had the gas tank left to do, so before we re-installed the tank, Mike suggested we check the petcock functioning....GOOD thing we did....I used the Mighty Vac to apply a suction and it only dribbled gas out...that was NOT a good thing, SO...he took the petcock loose from the tank and took it apart, things looked ok until he noticed that the two rubber diaphragms were not connected to each other at the little rubber nipple....aaaaaHAAA....he put them back together and said it felt like it was too easy compared to others he'd checked before, but he put it all back together and we tested it again and WHAMMM...it was working again when we applied a vacuum.....now the hardest part of the WHOLE job came into play...getting the $%^&&^% darn tank petcock vacuum line and clamps back on...the fuel line went on ok, but trying to get the tank BACK on was definately the hardest part of the whole job...but we finally managed to without any evident kinks in the vacuum line to the #6 carb.....I put my spark plug covers back on so I could tighten up the other intake bolts and we were ready to test out our work...
After a few crank attempts to refill the carbs with fuel, she started up and ran strong again....HALLELUJAH!!!......THANKS MIKE!!!....
I'm just a little worried about WHY the thing came apart in the first place, and IF or WHEN it might do it again???.....one other thing that we noticed is that when I went to set the tank on it's nose to keep the vent tube in the air initially, gas came out from the gas cap...there was a little less than a half of a tank of gas in it when I took it off...shouldn't the rubber gasket inside the gas cap keep the gas fom leaking out??..I have heard of guys "glueing" additional rubber disks over the original one....since it doesn't look like HDL even lists that part on the microfische....
I will order a new petcock rebuild kit very soon, but this one was only put on back last August at Inzane by BigBF and it worked fine until last Saturday... ....I'm not sure why it would have let go so soon??...
