carb breather hoses

Ken184 · Post by **Ken184** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:13 pm

do the carb breather hoses vent behind the transmission or plug into the port on the front of the air cleaner?

mike in idaho · Post by **mike in idaho** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:23 pm

Do you mean the fittings on the bottom of the float bowls? Those are overflow hoses, they go down behind the transmission.

rrietman · Post by **rrietman** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:23 pm

"carb breather hoses"? not sure what you are referring to. also we don't know what bike we are talking about. on the dreams and early hawks, there is a "breather" from the cyl head that connects to the air cleaner. it vents the valve guides. on the dreams, there is a carb overflow fitting that simply drains over the swingarm. the hawks have a similar fitting on the float bowl, but IT SHOULD NOT HAVE A TUBE OR BE CONNECTED TO ANYTHING, it will seriously affect your carb tuning if there is a tube there. the carbs on all these bikes also have "breathers" to the atmosphere thru a VERY small orofice in a tube on the upper carb body (also with no tubing attached,1960's, some later models,80's, have the carb vent drained via a tube.
Randy

Ken184 · Post by **Ken184** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:24 am

thanks. this clears it up. first time doing this, etc......