Well, congrats for the 2nd longest msg ever posted.
The main thing to ask, is it important, or maybe not so important.
If its related to coolant, not having might get you some scalding antifreeze
where it should not be, but only if you get close to overheating.
If its related to gas, as long as it does not drip onto the cat converter,
you will probably not do any harm.
If its related to the battery, you could wind up with battery gasses going
where they are not supposed to, which will cause corrosion in odd places. I
had this happen to me and had to replace a critical suspension piece on a
Yamaha Vision 550 many years ago.
The brass part is weird. I wonder if it was a splice for a short hose.
-----Original Message-----
From: guss [ jim, elizabeth & pablo guss ] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: hosed
hi.
i have a bit of a problem. i'm hoping you guys might be able to help me out
or at least point me in the right direction. a part has come off my bike
and i do not know what it is or where it goes.
while in the middle of trying to install the hugger (rear tire mud guard) i
recently received from previous owner, a piece of tubing fell from the
center of the bike. it just dropped down out from sort of above the foot
pegs. i'm not sure what i did to it or how i offended the gods. i had my
head up my tailpipe and my hands wrapped around my swingarm ;^) trying for
that last blasted cm to but the bolt in to hold this thing on when down
plotzed this tubing about onto my foot, (ie., did not see chain of events or
original location.) it's black, about 3/8" outside diameter, 17.5" length
(~44.45cm) and it has small brass disk fitting to slip fit onto something on
one end only. the other end has some stuff looking like road crud making me
think this may be cousin to one of the other black tubes in this
neighborhood snaking up to disappear under gas tank. i'm thinking maybe
breather vent tube because the other end has no appearance of ever being
crimped to anything and there are no plumbing fittings. brass disk end
looks like a real low tolerance item in that there are no threads, slip fit,
light guage and the thing just fell off of somewhere. but, where? i cannot
find another set-up like this anywhere on bike -- and i sure cannot find the
'smoking' tab to slip this back on to. i would like to come up with
something better than hoping this is cosmetic not critical. points off in
surgery for finishing up and finding an extra part and wondering hmmm, i
wonder where this goes. only thing i discovered spelunking under tank etc
looking for lost connection in search of good home was generator/starter
motor? -- i'll figure it out -- missing a couple of its most center line
case bolts. has anybody ever come accross a hose like this? i'll be your
best friend. i see lots of tubes of similar dimensions, but they must
matter because they all have more solid looking means of connecting their
business ends and not a little brass disk fitting that i've seen.
btw, * separate thing, * one of the black tubes i did find seems to stretch
to terminate around the coolant tank which has a donut type plug near front
about where this tube would end up. is it safe to go with guess that these
two items really belong together as extra coolant overflow vent tube to dump
by foot pegs? if they have detatched is there a good way to glue them or
should this part be replaced?
thanks a bunch in advance with your help with this hose!!
-- jim
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