Topic: Can the intake boot be revived

[Rider39]

Bill

Consider doing this for a week, with daily checks.  I've read where some testers have gone as much as 2 weeks +.

Josh

[willbird]

Bill

Consider doing this for a week, with daily checks.  I've read where some testers have gone as much as 2 weeks +.

Josh

Yea I am leaving them in there for now, had no intended uses for them yet. They do need to be rigid in the end, I knew a guy who ran a bike shop and he put a bigger carb on some kind of 2 stroke 3 wheeler (what we had back then) and used a radiator hose to plumb it to the head on the engine, it would suck closed due to intake vacuum at idle, he ended up shoving a big coil spring inside the hose.

[willbird]

Not sure on the day count today, pulled them out, they have expanded quite a bit, really soft on the ends, tossed the other two of the set into the juice. These were hard enough to use as jackstands LOL so nothing lost in this experiment. The ones in front are the un altered two of the set of 4, pretty sure these were on my K3 when I got it, would guess they are at least as old as mid 1980's vintage.