Leaky petcock fix?

[TJ10]

Alright so here's the problem. My petcock leaks when the valve is shut and pisses gas out of the overflows. So after a weekend fishing trip, I come home to find a full tank of $5/gal gas soaked into my yard. Anyway, I can get a new petcock for around $70 or I was thinking of adding an in line valve between the petcock and the T to the carbs which I get for around $15. Not sure if it will reduce flow too much. Anyone tried anything like this or have any other suggestions?

[bansheejoel]

$70? you must be looking at a pingel or something because i know for a fact that a oem yamaha petcock is $24...just ordered myself one yesterday...i wouldnt rig it just spend the money and do it right

[TJ10]

The pingel valve is what I meant. The single outlet valves are $70. I don't want to replace it with an oem valve because I'm pretty sure mine has leaked since the bike was new. I was just wondering if anyone tried anything like that before. I'll probably just go with the Pingel.

[Animalman294]

People usually run Pingel's on shee's that need a lot of fuel, but they also have independant feed lines to each carb...............

[jbooker82]

Why not just get new oring, and gasket for the stock valve. Porobably cost you 5 bucks in parts.

 

I wouldnt get a single outlet pingnel. Get a Dual out let one if your going to get one.

[LS1Inferno]

I have never had andy OEM petcock leak, and yeah a complete rebuilt kit is like 10-15 and the whole thing is 24. If you dont need the pingel i wouldnt spend the money, unless you Will need it, or just like shiney new stuff.

[TJ10]

I never really thought of rebuilding it. I thought I remembered reading somewhere on here that they weren't real easy to take apart so I kind of just threw that option out the window. I haven't really had time to take it apart and look at it though. Hopefully I'll be able to get around to it this weekend. I've got oodles of o-rings laying around if that ends up being the remedy. Thanks for the replies.