Re: Strange hose

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:09 AM 8/25/99 -0500, dan & ann curcio wrote:
>Greg,
>I found the same rubber tube with the end plugged when I installed a Scottoiler on my
>ST.  I got a little bit better view of it as I had to pull my gas tank upward to gain
>access to a vacuum line on the throttle body.  I have no idea what purpose this line
>serves.  From what I remember, it was attached to the bottom of the air box, ran down
>the back of the engine and had a vacuum cap jammed into the end which was just dangling
>out behind the transmission.  It was a good sized hose plugged off and going nowhere.
>I was going to pull out the plug, but with no place to attach it I thought better of
>this and just left it alone.  Maybe Eric can look at his parts diagrams and find out
>what this line is?

As I recall this is an oil drain from the airbox.  Don't want to let the oil out in front of the rear tire so it's plugged.  Remove plug, drain, replace plug is an occasional service.  Or something like that.


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