I would like to do some more adventure rides on my '08 TE 610 but I need to get it ready for some water crossings. What have you done to your bike to help it from watering out and keeping water out of the bike. The air filter is so low and open I'm not sure what I can do. I also did a search but didn't see anything on this yet. If there is can you point me in the right direction. Thanks.
I wouldn't worry to much about the air filter. Even though the intake to the filter appears to be very low, the actual carb intake is mounted high in the air box and won't suck in water anymore than any other bike.
heard the intake tone change during a water crossing, DRZ I was behind had no issue, is this because the water was at the bottom of filter?
Probably. If you take you're cover off you'll see that there are a couple of routes that air can take to get to filter, two of them are the low ones that everyone seems to worry about and the other is mounted high. If the lower ones get submerged it will draw more air through the top one and that will change the tone. When you remove you're filter you'll see that the actual air inlet to the carb is mounted at the very top, you can't get much higher up with out a snorkel.
