I don't know if any of you have experienced this. The vacuum line in the picture does not seem to want to stay in place. The synthetic nipple that it attaches to is starting to deteriorate due to me constantly reattaching the line. Any solutions you guys suggest?
Umm.....isn’t that the horn? I am betting that is the evap canister drain line and on my bike it was simply stuffed down in the frame in front of the engine. I am not sure down in the frame is really where it is supposed to go (though I think its right), but I am pretty sure is not supposed to go on the horn. Someone probably just put it on there because they did not know where it went.
Get a wider picture so we can see where the other end goes, and so we can see other parts to tell if something is missing. No hoses go to the horn. Most hoses revolve around the evap canister. 1 hose goes between the crankcase and the airbox.
That's a drain tube for the canister. It doesn't connect to anything and is normally stuffed between the front engine frame with the big holes in it and the engine.
That's the drain/open air line from the canister, just tuck it back by the frame and let it hang to where it won't drip on anything important. No worries, and it really should not be plugged up on the horn like that, if your bike has enough gas passing from the overflow tube down into the charcoal canister to overflow out that hose. You want it to be able to get out of there, so pressure doesn't build up.
Thanks, I will now sleep better at night. Stuffing it between the engine and frame an then forgetting about it.
To be crystal clear - I was not making fun of you or your dealer, at all. Very easy to make that type of mistake if few bikes had been seen.
