So I bought the most ridiculous motorcycle today

[Ayers Garage]

Originally Posted by Rman of 237

Hey Ayers, if you're referring to one of these, beware, they fall off!



I've been through 3, every one of 'em just disappeared .

That's about what I was considering. I see them for just a few bucks on the eBay. I did notice the ads say to glue them on. I figured a dab of Yamabond or something. Wouldn't it be sacrilegious to use anything but Yamabond on a TW?

[Rman of 237]

Originally Posted by Ayers Garage

That's about what I was considering. I see them for just a few bucks on the eBay. I did notice the ads say to glue them on. I figured a dab of Yamabond or something. Wouldn't it be sacrilegious to use anything but Yamabond on a TW?

The 1st one I didn't use any glue, it was so tight on there I didn't think it was necessary. The next 2 I glued, one with superglue and the other with a dab of epoxy. I guess the constant exposure to gas melts the glue over time. Regardless, I lost every one of them while riding. You'll know it when your gas cap starts spouting like a whale!
That's actually Agman's bike in the pic, when I installed his Clark he had brought along one of those vents. I was... If you look close I installed his with .026 stainless safety wire so we'll have to wait and see how long his lasts. I won't use them on my bikes again. If you do choose to use one I would highly recommend putting a piece of tubing in your kit just in case.

[bobbilly416]

I use plastic tubing with a check valve in it, the check valve helps to keep the fuel in the tank when the tank is full and splashing around or if you lay it down (something I seem to be doing a lot of lately), the tubing bends over and goes down the fork tree center like on a regular dirt bike, that way if (or when) the end attached to the tank comes loose you don't loose all of it, you simply push it back on. I went with a red silicon tubing that matched my pig so it looks good.

[EnduroRdr]

Originally Posted by Rman of 237

Hey Ayers, if you're referring to one of these, beware, they fall off!



I've been through 3, every one of 'em just disappeared .

Been there done that! no more stubby cute vents for me!

From experence I can also say go with a vent "Tube" tucked in the tripple tree on the other end you have spare tubing if needed - I had a gas line filter come ungluded about 50 miles from nowhere, started leaking gas and no way to fix it (and no way to re-connect the 2 ends of teh short tubing) lucky we had a vent line to replace the entire gas line to get out alive

Just a thought!