Modern Buddy

On the front of the CVT case there is a larger black hose connected that leads towards the front of the bike. What is this? Mine keeps coming loose and I want to know now if I've done any damage to my scoot.

It's the intake cooling air hose for the CVT. No worries.

B02S4 wrote:It's the intake cooling air hose for the CVT. No worries.

yup, thats exactly what it is.

Have not done it yet, but would like to find a cheap autoparts filter that would fit in place of that hose.

okay I had a real strange happening on the Rat today.
I was riding and it started to rain pretty hard, I was fine with that, because well it's south Florida in the Summer time and it happens quite a bit.
The strange part was my scoot started to feel like it was slipping when I'd give it gas, not like a not enough fuel, or a tires not making contact kinda slipping but like you could feel something not catching and then catching but it wasn't dramatic. I jumped off the scoot and gave it a once over and i'll be dammned if that big hose didn't come off my scoot too.
Now it was a pretty good rain could I have gotten water in the CVT and if I did would it cause the belt to slip? That's what it felt like to me.
I let it sit a few minutes in the rain, good times! got my handy screw driver multi tool thing out and reattached the hose, started her up and gave a few quick tugs on the throttle and let her idle for a few, and the ride home was smooth as silk.

Wheelz wrote:okay I had a real strange happening on the Rat today.
I was riding and it started to rain pretty hard, I was fine with that, because well it's south Florida in the Summer time and it happens quite a bit.
The strange part was my scoot started to feel like it was slipping when I'd give it gas, not like a not enough fuel, or a tires not making contact kinda slipping but like you could feel something not catching and then catching but it wasn't dramatic. I jumped off the scoot and gave it a once over and i'll be dammned if that big hose didn't come off my scoot too.
Now it was a pretty good rain could I have gotten water in the CVT and if I did would it cause the belt to slip? That's what it felt like to me.
I let it sit a few minutes in the rain, good times! got my handy screw driver multi tool thing out and reattached the hose, started her up and gave a few quick tugs on the throttle and let her idle for a few, and the ride home was smooth as silk.

yeah, if you got water in the cvt it could cause the belt to slip and without the hose it would be a lot easier for the water to get in there.

That's what I thought it was, but I was just making sure it wasn't something more drastic. I think in the morning I'm gonna pull the cover off and blow it out, try to make sure the waters all out of there.