MZ Skorpion fuel tap rebuild kit?

[andy230]

Hello...

The saga of the non-working skorpion goes on.  Interestingly most issues are from lack of use...  Tells you something eh? USe it or lose it!

So I have rebuilt the starter, got it on, made a new gasket etc etc

All good.

So of course the fuel tap leaks, having been dry.

I have a spare tap, but suspect it too will leak.

Does anyone know of a cross reference forother bikes using this tap? 

Or of a rebuild kit which is readily available?

Cheers for now.

andy

[themoudie]

Oi! C U Pal!   

Here's a link and if you read the WHOLE page you'll get all the info you need: MZ_Fuel_tap_info

How much money did we invest in you, only for you to stop thinking lateraly?  It'll be the weeun depriving you of your beauty sleep. 

Hope it sorts things out for you and the urban predatory Arachnid will return with a sting in it's tail.

Toodle pip, Bill.

[andy230]

Thank you William, eloquent as ever.... 

Funnily, I had just joined MZriders, to pick their brains on just this.

My searches however, did not bring up that page.  Interesting.

I would rather buy a seal kit however, than a whole new petrol tap.  I mean, I already have two...!!

However, after building it up with the old seals, from the non-leaking spare tap I have (despite them being hard, and initially leaking) by this morning, the tap was dry....!

Yippee!!  One presumes they have swollen once setted again.  But this will not I fear be a permanent fix.

Universal Acerbis tap on its way.  Just to have.  For when this leaks.  17 quid, sitting on my shelf, for years!!

Cheers

a

[Steve H]

Andy,

Have you given NRP a call http://www.nrp-carbs.co.uk/. Might be worth sending them a picture of the tap to see if is common to another bike.

[themoudie]

Aye Andy,

Eloquent! Thank you. More like a blether! 

I understand what you mean by the acquisition of new 'Odds & Sods' that then offer shelf or wall decoration.  There then comes the eBay moment after 5 years and the following week the 'bargin of the week' needs to be purchased again, with 5 years inflation+VAT and P+P! 

Enjoy your decorative tap and don't forget to lift it when you next do a flitting! 

Slainte, Bill.