The fuel valve on my
motor pushbike has been leaking horribly. About 2 litres flowed into the tank overnight. Not cool!!
Here you can see the tiny rubber seal is decayed quite badly.
So I'm making a new one from some recycled car-tyre rubber lying around. It's difficult to make nice clean holes in rubber.
Pretty ugly. Hope it works.
Nope, that didn't work at all. I'll try a thinner rubber seal. This time I'll use an old bicycle inner tube.
...and a proper hole punch instead of a drill bit.
Super tidy. That looks much better.
A dab of silicone should stop the new diaphram from moving around (rotating) inside the petcock. (ps: post-install, works like a charm. Problem fixed)
The motor vibrates like a beast. It's hard metal-to-metal bolted to the bike at every point. I think I'm going to pad everything with this recycled car tyre strip.
First I'll line all the frame-mount brackets with some rubber padding.
That should do it.
... I'll add some between the mount-plate and the engine also...when I get back into the shed. Updates eventually...
