Carb hose and other sundry questions

[bdfinally]

putting the carbs back on my '00 M750. Took plenty of pics when I disassembled everything but I miss this fitting. I know the circled red is the where fuel line goes. The blue, I'm stumped on. Pods and canister are long gone. Thanks in advance.

[brad black]

the blue one is a vent.  ideally it goes to a dead air space.  like those nice little plastic things on the side of the frame.

[bdfinally]

Thanks BB, that's what I thought. Pods have been gone for years now. I'll route it under the battery then up.

Got the throttle cables on, but gotta ask, is there a trick to putting the pregnant dog one on, cause cussing didn't seem to help?

[koko64]

I understand. I got one back on (forget which one), with a great deal of face pulling and cussing. Routing it correctly was important and turning the throttle wheel around really helped iirc. Putting the cables on the carbs first and fitting them to the throttle last helped too. I don't take them off now unless they are stuffed.

I have had the breather nozzle turned back toward the space between the airbox and battery box on a number of bikes with no issue. I run the two canister hoses under there too and it works. Some I've run a short central breather hose into the cavity between airbox and battery box. With pod filters there is no lower airbox section to shield the area and turbulent air can get in there and cause issues. Having hoses hanging about unsheltered can cause the same.

[bdfinally]

I'm back on this job. Can anyone confirm that this is the correct hook up for an '00 M750 fuel pump.

Thanks again in advance.

[koko64]

That's correct.

[bdfinally]

Great!  Maybe I can button this sucka up in a day or two.

[bdfinally]

Everything is back together. Fired it up (after remembering a couple minutes late to turn petcock on.) Runs  warming up with choke on, but dies when I turn that off. Then one of the float bowl overflow lines spews a small puddle? When I had the shop rebuild the carbs they wrote "an addition adjustment might be needed after installation." on the back of invoice. Am I running into that or something else? As always appreciate the help.

[Howie]

Flooding does not come under the heading of "an addition adjustment might be needed after installation.".  Idle and synch is all you should need to do.

[ducpainter]

Will it run if you hold the throttle open?

Sounds like a float is stuck, or has a small piece of debris on the float needle

[bdfinally]

it'll warm up without a hand on the throttle and responds ok to it with the choke on. Push it all the way off and it idles for a few seconds for a bit and dies. Puddle coming from the left carb float drain.

[ducpainter]

Will it run with the choke off if you hold the throttle?

[bdfinally]

Yup, put a bit of tension on it and it'll run.

[ducpainter]

Yup, put a bit of tension on it and it'll run.

As howie said, a synch and idle adjustment should fix the stalling.

You said it was leaking from the float drain. Did you try tightening the drain screw?

Are you sure it's the drain and not the overflow?

[bdfinally]

it's coming from this drain line