Re: Tim's SR500 - June 2013 - tank is mounted!
And in an odd twist of fate...
I need a petcock for the Bridgestone tank. It's a big threaded on mount.
At the Paris ON swap meet early Saturday morning, I bought an old British side stand for my rigid project for $5. While I was digging through I noticed the heaviest fuel valve I'd seen, and was having a peek. When I made the deal on the sidestand, the seller noticed I had been looking at the petcock and told me to take it - he had it bouncing around for years.
It's a Suzuki petcock, and has a solid brass bowl on it that weighs a ton. It has two fuel spigots, that are bolted on with banjo bolts so you can adjust the angle I suppose, and likely delete one of them.
No idea if it works, but, as you might guess, it threads right on perfectly to the Bridgestone tank. Everything moves smoothly and it's clean as a whistle with the reserve tube in place, so will give it a go! Inside the brass bowl there is a screen filter and cork gasket - so this thing basically functions as a fuel filter. Very nice petcock, even if it does weigh the better part of a pound.