T6 Filters

[Nick AgainMember]

Is anyone using T6 filters on the carby drain tubes? Are they available here and if so, how much are they? I hear they’re a great engine saver, though I always thought they were Drain tubes, not breathers???

[Mick DMember]

These things Husky??

[Anonymous]

The KTM ones are breathers not sepcific drains. They should have some sort of filter on though, it wouldn’t be too hard for a bug or some other crap to get in there and make a mess of your engine.

[Nick AgainMember]

micknmeld wrote:

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These things Husky??

that’d be them…Is this only an issue for KTM..or is it across the board problem?? I dont want to outlay for them if i dont need them. makes me wonder, if they’re needed, why aren’t they already on them? Would it upset the running if i pushed some stocking into the tubes? Sorry if a sound a dumb nut..it’s natural. 😆

[Mick DMember]

Must be a husky thing too as I got that pic from a husky website.
Having the end of the hoses cut at 45 degrees has worked on all my bikes in the past and it is cheap.

[GregMember]

Yeah same Mick, I dont think a bug if it could get in there could hurt anything unless it was carrying a hammer?? lol

The hose are routed so fluid / water cant flow up, you can also cut a vee in the end to stop a rock getting stuck as well

That’s just some of the quality that KTMs have Mick

TB

[Anonymous]

So a miniscule little bit of dust is enough to destroy the valves on CRF’s but dead bugs sat in your sump aren’t an issue. We fit bug screens to all of the valves and instruments we supply beacuse they stop actuators (moving 10″ valves) from working.

[Nick AgainMember]

Trailboss wrote:

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Yeah same Mick, I dont think a bug if it could get in there could hurt anything unless it was carrying a hammer?? lol

The hose are routed so fluid / water cant flow up, you can also cut a vee in the end to stop a rock getting stuck as well

That’s just some of the quality that KTMs have Mick

TB

OMG…i thought they were splitting on their own accord…:blush: Just thought it was a fuel/ sun/ age thing?

[Nick AgainMember]

Moto wrote:

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The KTM ones are breathers not sepcific drains. They should have some sort of filter on though, it wouldn’t be too hard for a bug or some other crap to get in there and make a mess of your engine.

I know some(?) of the KTM’s have breathers there..I went riding with a lad on a 525 that drowned it Via those hoses?? Glad i didnt have to Kick it for the 1/2 hr he did..:lol:

[GregMember]

Moto wrote:

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So a miniscule little bit of dust is enough to destroy the valves on CRF’s but dead bugs sat in your sump aren’t an issue. We fit bug screens to all of the valves and instruments we supply beacuse they stop actuators (moving 10″ valves) from working.

I see you point, although the dust is in the intake, thus wears the intake valves, I think we are talking about two different things, I am talking about fuel hose, drains etc as I think Mick is as well. The oil breather hose on my bike runs up over the air box under the seat and into the top of the air filer. I think the XR 600 ones are a S bend style open hose are they not Mick / Chicken?? :blink: Could get a bug up those only if it was stopped. That said you are right a bug wouldn’t be the best thing in your sump but its better the dirt.

Sorry if I was confused :blink: , hoses looked to small for crankcase breathers I thought :blush:

[Mick DMember]

what ever gets in there, the XR will just crunch it up and spit it out.LOL

[Anonymous]

Yeah, we are on the same page with the hoses. I was just pointing out that a microscopic bit of dust can bust a valve up imagine what a heap of bugs being spayed against your piston rings can do. They can stop a pneumatic actuator with enough torque to close a 10″ metal seated ball valve, opposing a high pressure steam flow.

I agree though that it isn’t likely, or common as it would have been addressed as an issue long before now.

[GregMember]

10″ metal steel ball is bigger than the 100mm piston in the fiddy your right! Fark what pressure is working against that valve?

[Nick AgainMember]

What have I started??

[GregMember]

Nothing healthy discussion I think, he is right and I am banging on about something else

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