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Old 10-05-2013, 08:46 PM   #35
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Oh the joys of Chinese bike ownership! I am specs my hoses today, knowing that they are sometimes a weak point. I discover that the breather hose is split and broken off of the engine. It turns out, that the who's that they used was much too small for the nipple, and they forced it to fit by stretching it over. In order to replace it, I had to remove the exhaust, in order to do that I had to remove the luggage rack and the bodywork. I was able to find a hose in my collection, and I reinstalled and rerouted it in a more effective way. In the process of doing this, I discovered that my oil filler cap had fallen off. It turns out that the chrome knob is only loosely glued onto the screw in dipstick itself. A little JB Weld fix that, but had I lost that on the road, I would not have been able to get the dipstick out!
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