| Author | Message | ||
     Rwcfrank |
My warranty expires this month and I cant wait to do some easy mods. Does anyone have a quick mod to dump the ugly charcoal cannister on the left side of the bike.. | ||
| Froggy |
Why would you want to remove it? It improves fuel economy, and reduces harmful vapor emissions. It is commonly added to the 49 state bikes. | ||
| Froggy |
But anyway, it just unbolts, you replace the fuel vent line and cap the port on the throttle body. | ||
| Badrap |
I recently pulled the evap can off because I don't like the look of it but I'm going to put it back on since now it drips gasoline and stinks everything up. I'll live with the can for the piece of mind that I'm not going to blow my self up in the garage. I have even seen where people with the 49 state bikes add them to their bike for the same reasons. Has anyone else here taken off and put back on or just added the evap can to their bike because they don't like the stink? Here is a link to a discussion on this topic. http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/327 77/539796.html?1266903598 | ||
| Badrap |
I think the evap cap is ugly and that’s why I took it off originally but since I’m putting the evap can back on, does anyone have an idea of how I can make it look a little nicer/cooler looking? | ||
| Froggy |
Put a NOS sticker on it | ||
| Sharkguy |
I'm sure it doesn't look good. However, my uly stinks up the garage. You can see a nice vapor trail of gas spewing out of the overflow hose it for an hour or so after you shut the bike down. If recently fueled it leaks a table spoon of liquid gasoline onto the floor. I don't want to even think what would happen if someone were to flick a butt and it landed under or near that hose! Or a nice spark from something. Whosh! I may have to investigate a fix for it. And to think I went to extra pains to remove the one from my BMW. | ||
| Badrap |
I should put a FLAMMABLE sticker on it.  | ||
| Oddball |
Thought the drip/vapor stench was an 1125 thing? Guess I'll find out in the summer when temps get roasting. 60-70's hasn't made the cityx vent to my knowledge. | ||
| Rwcfrank |
Well, thanks to all of the great feedback I will leave well enough alone. Maybe I will cover it in carbon fiber sticky paper..Or something... | ||
| Xbimmer |
Mine quit functioning as designed and the intake started sucking carbon granules into the manifold. As it was it never didn't "stink", when parking it in the garage with a full tank and hot it would leak fumes from the front vent tube anyway. Not as much as a tube to the ground would allow, but enough to smell up the area. Worse, if you over fill the tank the intake vacuum sucks raw fuel through the canister and into the manifold and tries to kill the engine. Happened to me twice before I learned the cause, both times pulling out of the station and into traffic. I'm not fond of the system as designed, YMMV. Besides I like being Green by transporting myself 95% of the time on two wheels. | ||
| Rwcfrank |
Does anyone have any idea what it looks like inside? | ||
| Matchanu |
I dig mine, put it on a few months ago. It took a week to "break in" so it would work properly, but now the garage doesn't stink at all. I used hose clamps to attach it, I think it looks pretty cool. You could always paint it I guess. | ||
| Bosh |
"Maybe I will cover it in carbon fiber sticky paper..Or something" Chrome? | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Tie a bandanna around it  Does it really add the fuel economy in any measurable amount? | ||
| Sharkguy |
If you look at the link above it looks like Wavex built his own replacement out of an air compressor water separator. You would just have to remember to empty it once in awhile. | ||
| Reedracers |
I removed mine because every time I filled up and made a turn the bike would cough and hesitate almost to the point of dying. I installed a fuel line check valve from a dirtbike and rerouted the vent hose down past the swingarm ,I get absolutely no fuel on the floor and no vapors in the garage. | ||
| Rwcfrank |
Reedracers, can you expand on what you did? Where did you place the "check valve" and did you simply plug the fitting from the intake manifold? | ||
| Reedracers |
Hi Rwcfrank, I did plug the hose into the throttlebody with a 1/4 20 hexhead bolt about 3/4 inch long. I dabbed some silicone on the bolt head and wrapped that with super 33 electrical tape followed by a small hose clamp. I wanted to make sure that this mod was easily reversible in case California ever starts checking for these cannisters. As far as the vent I puchased a thru flow check valve from a dirtbike accessory store I think for 2.99 and spliced that inline near the vent and routed the new vent hose down near the swing arm. Just pay attention which way the arrow points on the check valve (to the tank)otherwise your bike won't start . The only fuel I ever see is if I fill up way overfull and I might see a drop or two from the vent hose the other downside is if you do any Hi level water crossings you dont want the vent hose submerged . hope this helps , Dwayne |
