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Its just packaging, when you take it out can you send it to me as mine is missing ONLY JOKING....leave it in, it's a moisture trap.
Quote from: Nurse Julie on September 11, 2018, 09:04:21 AMIts just packaging, when you take it out can you send it to me as mine is missing ONLY JOKING....leave it in, it's a moisture trap.Which end should it be in? (feeling nervous asking that of a nurse!)Is it an alternative to the trap at the bottom end?
Quote from: taysidedragon on September 11, 2018, 08:25:13 PMQuote from: Nurse Julie on September 11, 2018, 09:04:21 AMIts just packaging, when you take it out can you send it to me as mine is missing ONLY JOKING....leave it in, it's a moisture trap.Which end should it be in? (feeling nervous asking that of a nurse!)Is it an alternative to the trap at the bottom end? Trust me, I'm a Nurse, I would never advocate sticking something in the wrong end 😀😀 If I remember correctly, originally the tube fitted to the bottom of the air box had an end with a slash cut when the bike was serviced, the end of the tube was squeezed which let out any moisture that had built up. These days, I don't think the slash tube style tube is available any more so as an alternative they supply a pipe that was fitted to the bottom of the expansion box as an alternative, which has foam inside the wider part at the top. But,you have to take it off to squeeze the foam, so a bit difficult really.
Quote from: Nurse Julie on September 11, 2018, 09:06:48 PMQuote from: taysidedragon on September 11, 2018, 08:25:13 PMQuote from: Nurse Julie on September 11, 2018, 09:04:21 AMIts just packaging, when you take it out can you send it to me as mine is missing ONLY JOKING....leave it in, it's a moisture trap.Which end should it be in? (feeling nervous asking that of a nurse!)Is it an alternative to the trap at the bottom end? Trust me, I'm a Nurse, I would never advocate sticking something in the wrong end 😀😀 If I remember correctly, originally the tube fitted to the bottom of the air box had an end with a slash cut when the bike was serviced, the end of the tube was squeezed which let out any moisture that had built up. These days, I don't think the slash tube style tube is available any more so as an alternative they supply a pipe that was fitted to the bottom of the expansion box as an alternative, which has foam inside the wider part at the top. But,you have to take it off to squeeze the foam, so a bit difficult really.So a push fit plastic plug which can be removed to let moisture out instead would be ok?
I remember my original 400/4 back in the late, late 70's had a thin piece of foam fitted between the two gauze plates in the base of the air filter housing? Is this an additional piece of foam to do the same job of keeping moisture out?
The peice of gauze in the panching plate, I think that's how you spell it, filters the oil from the engine blow by gases and recycles them through the carbs. I use the foam part of a kitchen sponge, always have done.