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What's that hose coming from the airbox
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<blockquote data-quote="kmanflyer" data-source="post: 1417952" data-attributes="member: 91752"><p>"I'm leaning to shift the priorities, ask to make the leak down and compression tests, see if the engine is still worth the effort and only next do the valves. Being an 06AE with almost 80k miles bike has more of symbolic market value and if the engine starts to fail I may need to explore secondary options"</p><p></p><p>I think this is a good plan. But instead of pulling the spark plugs, (since the shop will have to do that to do leak down/comp test anyway), they can check the plugs while they have them out. I would pull the air filter out and check for crud in the air box with a mirror and try and clean it out as best as possible. Then definitely put a hose with a cap on the end like Fred W described, to close up that open hole. At least it won't be getting any worse and might be able to determine how long the hose was missing by how dirty the air box is. Just more information along with the leak down/comp test to evaluate the situation.</p><p></p><p>You can get the OEM hose setup with the filter after the testing/evaluation. Good Luck, hopefully it's not too bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kmanflyer, post: 1417952, member: 91752"] "I'm leaning to shift the priorities, ask to make the leak down and compression tests, see if the engine is still worth the effort and only next do the valves. Being an 06AE with almost 80k miles bike has more of symbolic market value and if the engine starts to fail I may need to explore secondary options" I think this is a good plan. But instead of pulling the spark plugs, (since the shop will have to do that to do leak down/comp test anyway), they can check the plugs while they have them out. I would pull the air filter out and check for crud in the air box with a mirror and try and clean it out as best as possible. Then definitely put a hose with a cap on the end like Fred W described, to close up that open hole. At least it won't be getting any worse and might be able to determine how long the hose was missing by how dirty the air box is. Just more information along with the leak down/comp test to evaluate the situation. You can get the OEM hose setup with the filter after the testing/evaluation. Good Luck, hopefully it's not too bad. [/QUOTE]
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