[Tanx] Fwd: TA --- vacuum hose leak.

[Adam N.]

This exact thing happened to me. I fixed it in the same way.  I was in a
neighborhood well know for drug dealing.

I was on my way to the TA rally in Sommers where someone ran out of gas and
we ate a pizza.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:36 PM Tracy Cerrato via Tanx <
tanx at lists.micapeak.com> wrote:

> A bit of TA advice from Herm...
> *Tracy *
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Hermann Kasper <hermannkasper at hotmail.com>
> *Subject: **TA --- vacuum hose leak.*
> *Date: *October 15, 2020 at 8:08:51 PM EDT
> *To: *Tracy Cerrato <tcrrto at comcast.net>
>
> Hi Tracy---
>
> The following might be of interested to TA owners. Care to send  it out?
>
> Today I was on a ride , when the engine started to stutter --again. This
> had happened before, but it always recovered.
> Fiddling with the fuel petcock ( ON /RES ) had helped in the past.
> I thought I might have a partial blockage in the petcock and had planned
> to take it apart-- as soon as practical (= an almost empty tank.)
>
> This time fiddling did not help.
>
> I rolled to a stop.
>
> I also was considering an Ignition module failure  . ( I always do carry
> *2 *spare modules on the bike! 😉 )
>
> Stranded on the road side , I was just about to install the new modules ,
> when I decided to check the petcock first.
>
> Long story short:
>
> the vacuum hose to the carb  had a small tear (= air leak )  very close to
> one end , thus intermittently shutting off the fuel !
>
> I cut off the end (about 10mm)
>
> Luckily--the hose was still long enough to function.
>
>
> After that , the engine ran fine again. 👍
>
>
>
> Tomorrow I will get a new vac  hose for the carb!😊
>
> (After all-- that piece of rubber hose was 31 yrs old!!)
>
> Herm
>
>
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Adam Novitt
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