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"Where Do These Hoses Go" updated pics?

Fuel feed to the petcock, obviously.

The only other things are the float bowl vents. Attach a piece of hose to the two nipples, and run the hoses up to a safe place on top of the airbox or similar, so they can breathe safe.
 
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Thanks y'all I was worried they were vacuum inlets like carb 3's and was gonna block them off. Glad I didn't.
 
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Where should the overflow tubes end up? If I remember right, they originally went back below the rear master cylinder, but looking there now it seems like that's awfully close to the exhaust for a fuel overflow! Any pics or advice is appreciated
 
crazyramen said:
Where should the overflow tubes end up? If I remember right, they originally went back below the rear master cylinder, but looking there now it seems like that's awfully close to the exhaust for a fuel overflow! Any pics or advice is appreciated
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From what I recal of my original fuel vent hoses, they were bundled together and exited just ahead of the rear wheel. They would have been down between the original side pipes and well away from them.
Which doesn't seem all that sensible, getting a gush of fuel on the rubber, in a bend.
 
Grimly said:
From what I recal of my original fuel vent hoses, they were bundled together and exited just ahead of the rear wheel. They would have been down between the original side pipes and well away from them.
Which doesn't seem all that sensible, getting a gush of fuel on the rubber, in a bend.
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Yeah... I doesn't seem like there's a great spot for them. It's either over the exhaust, near the chain, or in front of the tire. Am I wrong to be nervous about not having them on at all? Fuel leaking on an air cooled engine also seems like it could be trouble.
 
I don't know about the 8V engines, but the 16v engines have a chase, a square hole really, formed into the right rear of the engine case. Through it, we run the battery drain tube, the fuel tank level sender drain tube, and the air filter plenum oil drain tube. (the CV carbs don't have bowl drain tubes). It puts all of these potential drippers off of the tire axis and safely away from the exhaust. Maybe the 8V engines don't have this?
 
Rich82GS750TZ said:
I don't know about the 8V engines, but the 16v engines have a chase, a square hole really, formed into the right rear of the engine case. Through it, we run the battery drain tube, the fuel tank level sender drain tube, and the air filter plenum oil drain tube. (the CV carbs don't have bowl drain tubes). It puts all of these potential drippers off of the tire axis and safely away from the exhaust. Maybe the 8V engines don't have this?
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Yeah I'm not seeing that on my 8V. I did figure out that the foot peg bolts are threaded all the way through, so I'm thinking I'll bend some wire and give them a good loop to thread through that's a little further from the exhaust and not in front of the rear wheel.
 
Alright I got around to bending up some brackets using metal coat hangers. I've attached the brackets to the back of the foot peg bolts and the muffler mount, so that they avoid the real master cylinder and brake light switch spring and terminate about half way between the muffler and the tire.

More pics here:
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Nice work! And.............you solved a problem that hasn't been a problem since that bike was new!:p

I've never heard of a bike catching on fire, or anyone losing rear wheel control from those hoses running to the back of the engine like the Suzuki engineers designed!

If you have that much fuel coming out of them, you have bigger problems!
 
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