Hi All,
I am new to the site and new to the world of cutting the cord of taking the bike into the dealer to have simple work done.
Let me start off my apologizing for not using the correct terms as I am self taught in this ST world (I did get a Haynes Service and repair manual to help me). I am going through some of the basics; oil change, final drive fluid, air filter, etc. When I was swapping out the air filter and was putting that part back, I noticed on the gas tank, that was propped up, there were two hoses on the right side (if you are looking at the tank from the front of the bike) and one of them wasn't connected to anything. I also noticed down by the bottom of the air filter cover another hose that had a metal part sticking out of it (this hose also had "1205 printed on it if that matters). When I reached this hose to the other one it "seemed" like they may have been connected but were disconnected when I propped up the gas tank. I thought it would be weird to have two hoses at this part of the bike to not be connected to anything. When I moved the tank back to it's forward position I could connect these two hoses.
I am hoping that someone knows what I am talking about and could tell me if I was right in putting them back together or not. I have not started up the bike as I still need to go through my last step of replacing the coolant. I really started thinking about this after I put the tank back together and of course didn't take a picture for some reason. I found a picture online that is pretty much what I am talking about, maybe this helps. I don't want to open that part up again if I don't have to but I will if needed.
So, I am really trying to see if anyone knows that all three hoses that are connected to the underside of the gas tank are supposed to be connected to other hoses or if I need to get back in there and disconnect these.
I believe that this picture answers my question in that the hose that looks like the one in question is most likely the one on the right that is grey and goes down and connects to one that is brown.
After writing all of this I know this may sound like a non-issue but I guess I am just looking for an opinion from someone who knows what they are talking about, not just me who "thinks" that it looks right. Don't want to ruin my bike from something that I did just to save money by doing work myself!
Thank you for reading this and any help that can be given would be greatly appreciated!!
And thus concludes my first "crazy man fixing his bike for the first time" post.
Rich
I am new to the site and new to the world of cutting the cord of taking the bike into the dealer to have simple work done.
Let me start off my apologizing for not using the correct terms as I am self taught in this ST world (I did get a Haynes Service and repair manual to help me). I am going through some of the basics; oil change, final drive fluid, air filter, etc. When I was swapping out the air filter and was putting that part back, I noticed on the gas tank, that was propped up, there were two hoses on the right side (if you are looking at the tank from the front of the bike) and one of them wasn't connected to anything. I also noticed down by the bottom of the air filter cover another hose that had a metal part sticking out of it (this hose also had "1205 printed on it if that matters). When I reached this hose to the other one it "seemed" like they may have been connected but were disconnected when I propped up the gas tank. I thought it would be weird to have two hoses at this part of the bike to not be connected to anything. When I moved the tank back to it's forward position I could connect these two hoses.
I am hoping that someone knows what I am talking about and could tell me if I was right in putting them back together or not. I have not started up the bike as I still need to go through my last step of replacing the coolant. I really started thinking about this after I put the tank back together and of course didn't take a picture for some reason. I found a picture online that is pretty much what I am talking about, maybe this helps. I don't want to open that part up again if I don't have to but I will if needed.
So, I am really trying to see if anyone knows that all three hoses that are connected to the underside of the gas tank are supposed to be connected to other hoses or if I need to get back in there and disconnect these.
I believe that this picture answers my question in that the hose that looks like the one in question is most likely the one on the right that is grey and goes down and connects to one that is brown.
After writing all of this I know this may sound like a non-issue but I guess I am just looking for an opinion from someone who knows what they are talking about, not just me who "thinks" that it looks right. Don't want to ruin my bike from something that I did just to save money by doing work myself!
Thank you for reading this and any help that can be given would be greatly appreciated!!
And thus concludes my first "crazy man fixing his bike for the first time" post.
Rich
