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Hi guys, I have a Mikuni 42 carb fitted to my '96 heritage softsil by the PO. I have absolutely no idea how they managed to fit the petcock to carb fuel hose onto the carb end, because it has a significantly larger fitting at the carb than the petcock. 6mm vs 8mm (off my vernier calipers).
I have new fuel hose that fits the petcock end, but there's no way it's going to go over the fitting on the carb.... How do you guys suggest I get around this?
I've already re-installed the carb which makes pushing hard on the hose/ fitting difficult.
thanks for any tips.
I was taught by a graybeard that when sliding two parts together that will be a tough, tight, fit, to spit on the parts and smear that around. The spit just kind of goes away. I'd be a little worried about where that soap is gonna end up.
use 5/16" line and a Pingle petcock of the same size....that's what I did. when you stretch 1/4" line like that it has a tendency to crack earlier in my experience. just my $.02
use 5/16" line and a Pingle petcock of the same size....that's what I did. when you stretch 1/4" line like that it has a tendency to crack earlier in my experience. just my $.02
Thanks, this is what had happened to the old pipe that I removed. It was stock 1/4" hose that had been squeezed on to the Mikuni fitting and by the time I got to pulling it off during disassembly it had cracked and perished pretty bad.
Although I didn't want to have to replace the petcock, short on $$ and I just bought a new internal filter for the stock petcock 😖
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Mikuni carb fuel hose fitting problem
