• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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Escaping breather tube (HELP!!)

AGR31

AGR31

Husqvarna
B Class
Okay I am frustrated enough to embarrass myself. Is there any suggestions for keeping my little tiny teeny gas tank vent tube attached to my gas cap. That bad boy is always looking for an opportunity to detached and fling itself into the mud, or the grass, or into water......bed of my truck.:naughty:
It takes a bit to work it onto the cap and 0.005 to flee.
Thanks
 
you could try safety wiring the vent tube to the gas cap...it can be a little tricky & may not last forever, I've lost mine even after the safety wire... LOL
 
Thanks I haven't lost it for a couple rides now. Maybe it has given up fighting with me:)
 
quick question guys, do you just use a hose/tube on the stock cap or do you add a check valve inline?

My 510 has no check valve in the cap and gas always overflows spitting fuel down the stearing head, staining the back of the fender and likely eating away at the bearing grease.

Every other bike I've owned had a check valve in the cap or an inline one so when the bike fell over the gas stays in the tank.... only lost a bit from carb overflow

Does the FI (08) bikes need open flow?
 
DirtMongrel said:
quick question guys, do you just use a hose/tube on the stock cap or do you add a check valve inline?

My 510 has no check valve in the cap and gas always overflows spitting fuel down the stearing head, staining the back of the fender and likely eating away at the bearing grease.

Every other bike I've owned had a check valve in the cap or an inline one so when the bike fell over the gas stays in the tank.... only lost a bit from carb overflow

Does the FI (08) bikes need open flow?
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Had the same problem. 1st fill and saw fuel dripping onto the forecourt tarmac. Ditched the open hose and fitted a one way - air in/no fuel out - valve on the end of a short piece of hose on the cap. The only thing it won't do is let the air in the tank escape if the tank gets real hot. As mine did at the dyno and they couldn't make the tank fit until opening the cap!
 
Same experience here with the one way valve on my 08 too...the first summer I had it out on a hot sunny day and spent a lot of time waiting for some riders in the group...the tank blew up like a baloon. I guess when you're in the sun and not running to draw gas out, the valve doesn't let the air out so something has to give. Never had a problem since, but I never spent that much time in the hot sun without riding it either.
 
I have been running mine like this for years with no problems.
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Joliet said:
I have been running mine like this for years with no problems.
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Yeah mine is just like this, minus the wire. S`pose I will have to add the wire if the glue don`t work. Do you find your cap to leak at the threads with this IMS tank
 
If you put some small diameter plastic tubing on the nipple then slip the line over that, it's a lot more snug.
 
AGR31 said:
Yeah mine is just like this, minus the wire. S`pose I will have to add the wire if the glue don`t work. Do you find your cap to leak at the threads with this IMS tank
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I have never had any leaks around the cap.
 
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