Anyone had problems with their vaccuum valve on fuel tank?

Pygmaelion · Post by **Pygmaelion** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:40 pm

I'm just curious... but when I picked up my scoot from it's long days in storage, one of the first things I had to do was un-stick the vaccuum valve. It was all gunked up (though I think that's because the guy who had it before put lots of fuel additives into the thing, not realizing that a bottle of that stuff does a 2 gallon tank).

I ended up using an air compressor and lots of carb cleaner to get it moving again.

Anyhow, has anyone else had to unstick their vaccuum valve before it worked?

Rezachi1 · Post by **Rezachi1** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:10 pm

Mine got stuck open and ended up (i think that my float is messed up) draining my whole tank through the overflow on the carb. A little bit of carb cleaner fixed that right up.

MySpree · Post by **MySpree** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:42 pm

yea... i hated that... mine was fine... but if it wasnt i would have been mad.

maddog · Post by **maddog** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:38 pm

I just replaced my original aero fuel valve with an elite-s type, for stock intakes drill & tap a fitting.

MySpree · Post by **MySpree** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:18 pm

what the diff etween adn aero on e and an elite s one???

Post by **noiseguy** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:51 pm

Yes, had to do the exact same thing. Still stuck closed sometimes, till I doused it with WD40.