martin_csr wrote: Edit: fixed the link.... sorry about that.
If the spacing on your 81 1100 is 34mm, then it should work. I've been riding around w a disabled vacuum petcock for a few weeks, but now even it is leaking. If a new diaphragm kit doesn't work (already purchased, doh), then I'm switching to a manual.
PS: a clear plastic Tropicana orange juice jug is handy for collecting the fuel when the bike is parked in the garage... saves the fuel for reuse & cuts way down on the gasoline fumes.
I modified mine. I thought I posted pics/how to here. I just searched, guess not.
Basically, I stared at it till I figured out what had to be done, filled the holes with that two part gas tank repair, the lever you turn I modified. It was far more simpler than I thought when I started. It doesn't leak a drop. I left a nearly full tank, off the bike, sitting in the sun while I did something, I could smell gas around the cap vent, and my modded valve was bone dry.
After done, I took a file and flat filed where the filters were. Had to make a gasket that lined up with the holes, all very simple, total cost was bout 5.00 and an hour.