Fuelcock Repair Kits

[oldjapanesebikes]

An outfit in Germany is advertising repair kits, and also replacement/re-manufactured diaphragms for the vacuum operated fuelcocks so I thought I'd give them a try. The company is 'Hard to find Parts' and you can visit their web site at this address:

http://www.hard-to-find-parts.de/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

They also sell on eBay.

I was quite impressed ! High quality, well made and while not cheap, if you don't want to replace a leaking one with something else or if you can't buy one new then I think these are not a bad option to know about. Volker Schultz is the owner, and I found him to be very good to deal with. Below is a photo of both the kit he sells (which has the flat sealing washer, new spring, new screws and some other bits) and also the new diaphragm for my T500.

[Coyote]

Nice find Ian! I visited the site, but I can't read German. Looking at the pics, I don't see a rebuild kit for the later single outlet petcocks found on the 74-77 GT's. I wonder if that is in the works? I also wonder if the diaphragm would be available separately That sure would resurrect a lot of currently dead petcocks. Looks like really good stuff1

[oldjapanesebikes]

Nice find Ian! I visited the site, but I can't read German.

Chris - if you open the site in Google Chrome, it will offer to translate the site for you. I use that feature a lot when checking non-English web sites. Microsoft must have something similar, but I don't run Windows so don't know for certain.

I suspect that as most of the later model fuelcocks are still available from Suzuki fairly cheaply he can't compete on the price, so the focus is just the older ones. He does it on an exchange basis as he needs the grey plastic separator to go with his reproduction membranes, and you have to specify the model as the pintles that the sealing o-ring fit are different lengths, and in the case of the MK1 T500 also a slightly different shape than later MK2 and MK3 T500 models.

As I mentioned, the quality is very good. As you have pointed out previously Chris, non-vacuum valves are available for a lot less money, but if you are looking for the original 'look' and can handle the cost then this is a good option.

[Coyote]

Google (not chrome) normally offers to translate, but I couldn't find that option today.

[jabcb]

[As I mentioned, the quality is very good. As you have pointed out previously Chris, non-vacuum valves are available for a lot less money, but if you are looking for the original 'look' and can handle the cost then this is a good option.

Another plus for quality is that he makes his material selections knowing that many of his customers will use ethanol.

[ConnerVT]

Google Translate == http://translate.google.com/#

[oldjapanesebikes]

I think it should translate using this also:

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... arts.de%2F" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Note that headers and some scripted text will not change, but unprotected text (have to be careful if you say that too quickly I think ) should translate OK.