Can I start my XS650 using a jump starter?

Does not take much to bigger up a vacuum petcock. All it takes is a piece of crap in the diaphragm and it will pass fuel. Can work one second and the next it will not. Not having an off position on that petcock is just asking for something to happen. My old KLR had a vacuum petcock but it also had an OFF position for that specific reason. I changed mine on the XS to a manual petcock. It just eliminates one more worry…assuming you remember to turn it off. ;) Just comes down to personal choice I guess.

True personal choice....But then i have never had any problems with the bikes i have had with vacuum petcocks.......

But i was answering a question to a problem and explaining the workings of a Vacuum petcock for kaj411
 
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