re: 'ARE YOU ALL INSANE??? '
Evidently.
If it doesn't work for you, in your riding environs...don't do it.
re: ' i have to deal with rougher trails than most people ever face...(ruts 10 ft long 4 ft wide 1-2 ft deep)'
I'd call that a 4-lane freeway 'round here.
Honestly, all the trails in this area are groomed, most are blacktop. We have traffic control signals when tracks merge. There
are HOV tracks, but you gotta be 2-up on a Beemer to ride those.
re: 'Finally does closing the hole in the bottom of the Airbox affect anything? thats where most of the mud comes from so....'
Maybe if the engine wasn't trying so hard to suck air through a straw on the top of the airbox...it wouldn't suck mud through the bottom of the airbox.
Just a thought.
Hey!! I've got a white porcelain thing in my house..every time I push on the handle, all the water goes out. If I plugged the hole in the bottom of it, wouldn't it work better?