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Boot on top of carb
Posted: 01:52 pm Aug 28 2012
by terminatr
The rubber boot on top of the carb is torn and broken. The parts diagram doesn't
show this boot at all. So I can't get a replacement. Is it okay to run with this broken?
Will it cause air leak into the carb?
Re: Boot on top of carb
Posted: 02:02 pm Aug 28 2012
by cornishwrecker220
i think the boot is to help keep water from finding its way into the carb ,some older mx bikes have them but not seen one on a kdx before . you could try a bicycle inner tube pulled down onto the top of the carb & cable tie it to the throttle cable ..i have thought about doing this mod to my bike as i often ride when its wet & i sometimes get water in my carb/base of the slide (if i ride fast through water) which i think finds its way in through the top of the carb where the throttle cable goes in.
Boot on top of carb
Posted: 02:04 pm Aug 28 2012
by Slick_Nick
The boot comes with a new cable.
Boot on top of carb
Posted: 07:03 pm Aug 31 2012
by canyncarvr
Slick_Nick wrote:The boot comes with a new cable.
Yes. It comes with an OEM cable and it
does show on the fiche in the cables diagram. $26 from one on-line source (plus shipping, natch..another $8 or so).
There is also a boot on the MotionPro cable. Unless they fixed it, though, that boot does NOT fit. The carb end is too big.
Re: Boot on top of carb
Posted: 10:42 pm Aug 31 2012
by scheckaet
CC is correct, that boot is still f'up. You'll have to McGyver it to make it properly fit.
Re: Boot on top of carb
Posted: 11:28 pm Aug 31 2012
by canyncarvr
I got that from a BRush post, It's not my figger'n of anything.
MP cables have been a problem more'n once. They (MP cables) didn't fit on my Banshee. I 'informed ' them about that, and supposedly they fixed that boo-boo.
Seems worth the time and expense to just get the right cable in the first place. OEM, I'm sayin'.