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Hi all. I have the Clymer's manual for my '08, but sometimes it isn't much help when I don't know what it is I'm looking at. Underneath the seat and on the right side (starboard) there is a tube running just below the subframe up toward the engine. What does this tube do and where should it be connected? Mine appears to be hanging loose and a spider has been living in the end of it. Can it be reconnected to its proper place without pulling the fuel tank? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/DSN_KLR650/photos/albums/266062319/lightbox/1183397015?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc&photoFilter=ALL  Many thanks, John

Could it be a vent line from a T mod? Ateam   [b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Saturday, September 05, 2015 9:25 PM [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Mystery tube     Hi all. I have the Clymer's manual for my '08, but sometimes it isn't much help when I don't know what it is I'm looking at. Underneath the seat and on the right side (starboard) there is a tube running just below the subframe up toward the engine. What does this tube do and where should it be connected? Mine appears to be hanging loose and a spider has been living in the end of it. Can it be reconnected to its proper place without pulling the fuel tank? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/DSN_KLR650/photos/albums/266062319/lightbox/1183397015?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc&photoFilter=ALL

 Many thanks, John

Looks identical to the T mod vent line I had on my '00 KLR.Randy Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: "'Ateam' ateam@... [DSN_KLR650]" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Date: 09/05/2015 11:35 PM (GMT-07:00) To: kaykuri@..., DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] Mystery tube   Could it be a vent line from a T mod? Ateam   [b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Saturday, September 05, 2015 9:25 PM [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Mystery tube     Hi all. I have the Clymer's manual for my '08, but sometimes it isn't much help when I don't know what it is I'm looking at. Underneath the seat and on the right side (starboard) there is a tube running just below the subframe up toward the engine. What does this tube do and where should it be connected? Mine appears to be hanging loose and a spider has been living in the end of it. Can it be reconnected to its proper place without pulling the fuel tank? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/DSN_KLR650/photos/albums/266062319/lightbox/1183397015?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc&photoFilter=ALL  Many thanks, John

Try this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diveeBMr0CU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiI9qCysck Could be the prior owner made this mod. Robert Wichert P.Eng. LEED AP BD&C HERS I/II CEPE CEA BPI CERTIFIED SF/MF GREEN POINT RATER +1 916 966 9060 FAX +1 916 966 9068 =============================================== On 9/5/2015 8:25 PM, kaykuri@... [DSN_KLR650] wrote:

Hi all. I have the Clymer's manual for my '08, but sometimes it isn't much help when I don't know what it is I'm looking at. Underneath the seat and on the right side (starboard) there is a tube running just below the subframe up toward the engine. What does this tube do and where should it be connected? Mine appears to be hanging loose and a spider has been living in the end of it. Can it be reconnected to its proper place without pulling the fuel tank? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/DSN_KLR650/photos/albums/266062319/lightbox/1183397015?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc&photoFilter=ALL Many thanks, John

John,Sometimes owners skip the "T" part and just run the vent line under the seat.Randy Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: "'John's Yahoo account' kaykuri@... [DSN_KLR650]" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Date: 09/06/2015 9:40 AM (GMT-07:00) To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Mystery tube   Thanks, I will have to try to see if that's what it is. Now that I look at the T-mod online, it sure looks like one. I bought this one used with about 3k miles, so honestly I'm not sure whether that was done. I thought not because there is actually a pic in the Clymer's manual showing a similar tube (pg. 290, fig. 23, though it doesn't say what it is) and I guess I assumed they would use a stock bike for the manual. John -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

Awesome  I'll try that as well Sent from my Samsung device over Bell's LTE network. -------- Original message -------- From: "'Norm Keller' normkel32@... [DSN_KLR650]" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Date: 09-07-2015 2:04 PM (GMT-05:00) To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Selling a 2010   Unless you wish to restrict to only one venue, this one has quite wide exposure so might be an addition to your local Craigs List, Kijiji or others:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/KLR650sswapandshop/

Thanks again for the help. I suspect Randy and Norm are right, and this was just the stock Gen 2 tube run up under the seat rather than down by the swingarm, which became disconnected at some point. There are literally cobwebs and a spider carcass in the tube (not so conducive to airflow), so it may have been a while. But I have not done any water crossings etc. in a long time so it's been running okay. After further study, this appears to be an "overflow" tube in addition to a vent (per Clymer's e.g.) and extra gas may come out of their as well, especially if you put it down on its side as I will frequently do . So it seems to me that just having the one tube flowing upward is not such a great idea either. The T-mod is so cheap as to be a no-brainer that I will go ahead and get a valve and some tubing and do that. Cheers, John