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Yea I did it myself in a couple hours, I remember taking half a day off work because it was dripping in my garage and the wife was not too happy with the smell. Our bedroom is above the garage. Of course I had an almost full tank of gas 🙄. I siphoned what I could, and there was quite a bit left when I loosened the petcock screws, drained it into a cut up water jug I had laying around. Bottom line it made a mess, glad I did it in the driveway to hose it all down stream 🤫. I had to remove the tailpipe, which is easy just a time consuming. There was a bit of a learning curve getting the petcock out with the tube getting in the way. Unfortunately I don’t recall what I learned off hand. I was lucky and happened to have a Yamaha gasket that the PO had in the saddle bags. If I remember I did do a little sanding/scraping to clean up the mounting surfaces. Side note the petcock itself didn’t work and still doesn’t, I’m not concerned as it’s stuck on reserve. I don’t recall if I had it on the center stand or side stand, do what makes you comfortable.

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With a Philips bit on a 1/4 drive socket on a long wobble extension or flex joint on a 1/4 inch ratchet you should be able to reach up from the bottom without removing the exhaust. You may have to raise the tank a bit to sneak the petcock out because of the stand pipe which is about two inches long.

Loving it too over here in SE PA. Warm temps this week in the 60's. Ride Safe All.

It was indeed the petcock, dripping pretty good there, looks like 10 litres drained out and absorbed into the floor over 3 weeks, oil looked good, bike runs good, but gotta figure out how to replace this petcock now

It's a big headache to find the right place for riding gears. I have been using viking cycle gears, pretty satisfied with them. Visit them, hope you will get the desired size from there. https://www.vikingcycle.com/collections/mens-motorcycle-jackets