When I put my 1972 Commando together in the mid nineties, I found a steel tank to replace the suspect glass one. At the time, these fuel taps were thought to be very good and they were ordered and installed. Outside of being hard to move, they seemed to work fine. After sitting a dozen years with fuel in the tank, today it was time to drain off the old fuel through a coffee filter into a funnel and then into a fuel container. The gas still smells like gas and went into the old Dodge gas tank, that car isn't fussy about such things.
Draining off the fuel should have been a five minute job, but the taps were very slow and the job turned into something like half an hour. The flow was very dribbly and I have real doubts the motor could be sustained with such a poor supply at any decent power setting. The taps look like they might come apart for cleaning, but there is very little crud on the screens and I doubt that would help them.
What taps work well with the Commandos? Now is the time to change them out while the bike is apart for other work.
Vintage Paul
Draining off the fuel should have been a five minute job, but the taps were very slow and the job turned into something like half an hour. The flow was very dribbly and I have real doubts the motor could be sustained with such a poor supply at any decent power setting. The taps look like they might come apart for cleaning, but there is very little crud on the screens and I doubt that would help them.
What taps work well with the Commandos? Now is the time to change them out while the bike is apart for other work.
Vintage Paul
