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Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:23 pm
by Growler
OK so it was probably the first thing I took off the bike when I started the rebuild and I'll be damned if I can remember where the pipe that comes off the top of the petrol tank breather actually runs to. It splits at a T piece but I need to know where the two ends go? Are they just breathers or is there a place fore them... Hunted Hi and Low in an effort to jog thge memory! Can't believe I'vew stripped every nut and bolt off the thing and the bloody tube has me stumped!!
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:25 pm
by Growler
While I'm on I'm also looking for the rubber gaitors that keep water/crap out of the back the headlights.. Mine appear to have been nicked at some point!!! If nobody has them any idea where or if another bike shares the same gaitor. They're surely fairly common in design???
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:11 am
by Growler
anybody!??? This breather is doing my head in! Do the two pipes actually connect to anything or are they simply breathers? If so where do they go? Any pics or descriptions would really be appreciated folks
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:46 am
by Cammo
Hmm, this same thing stumped me a while ago.
They don't go anywhere... just drain to the ground. Hope you're happy, it took me ages to figure that out when I was putting one back on the road!!!!
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:47 am
by Cammo
Growler wrote:While I'm on I'm also looking for the rubber gaitors that keep water/crap out of the back the headlights.. Mine appear to have been nicked at some point!!! If nobody has them any idea where or if another bike shares the same gaitor. They're surely fairly common in design???
Not sure what bikes share them with nc30's, but the nc29 ones I have are slightly different. Would work, but not the correct parts.
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:01 pm
by Growler
cheers, stickshift. Just need to figure out routing again! Any idea what side of the bike the short end goes and ill figure the rest out?
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:55 pm
by The Hamster
They pipe goes down under the front of the tank on the right hand side, then under the rubber inlet for the airbox, but above the air tray and heads towards the left of the bike. It goes around the air box and dowwards to the back of the Carbs where there is a bendy hook on the Back Left Carb FLoat Bowl Screw, (LOL). The T-Piece goes underneath the hook, with the longer end part going up and around itself and through the hook. Both the end parts then go straight down into a holder which sits on the left hand side of the Clutch cover as you look at the bike from the left side.
Look Here:
http://akhara.com/nc30/nc30manuals/VFR4 ... 0R_C01.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Page 1-23, You can just about make the pipe visible by zooming in.)
Happy to Help.
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:28 pm
by Growler
They pipe goes down under the front of the tank on the right hand side, then under the rubber inlet for the airbox, but above the air tray and heads towards the left of the bike. It goes around the air box and dowwards to the back of the Carbs where there is a bendy hook on the Back Left Carb FLoat Bowl Screw, (LOL). The T-Piece goes underneath the hook, with the longer end part going up and around itself and through the hook. Both the end parts then go straight down into a holder which sits on the left hand side of the Clutch cover as you look at the bike from the left side.
Look Here:
http://akhara.com/nc30/nc30manuals/VFR4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 0R_C01.pdf (Page 1-23, You can just about make the pipe visible by zooming in.)
Happy to Help.
Hamster... What can I say..This Forum amazes me with the knowledge and help on offer! I doubt I'd have figured that route out in 8 hours in the garage!
You've no idea how many swearwords you've just prevented my 3 year old from learning!!!
Cheers
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:13 pm
by Lope
brilliant, i'm going to look for this. my bike has been smelling of petrol for so long.
I recently added a tube to the breather thing on top of the tank, but I once asked a mech and he said the tube goes nowhere, so I just made the tube go about 40cm and end under the tank somewhere lol. i'm gonna look for that T piece.
Re: Vacumn Tube? Help??
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:32 pm
by Spike16
does anyone know were the tube that comes from the tap goes too?
its broken on my new bike and cant get the thing to start and think its got something to do with fuel starvation as spark is good and wen u turn it ova the exhaust dosnt smell like fuel