Valk Mechanics Stay by the Phone...

[Valkcabbie]

I'm gonna try and replace my vacuum hoses tomorrow. Everyone has told me it's a nightmare so if you get a phone call and someone is sobbing uncontrollably(it's me) just begin talking me through it--OK?
It's times like these build character I'm told :roll: so after this I MIGHT try adjusting the valves :shock: Schtick happens when your broke :cry: But the upside is I'm building character :lol: ...vc

[TNT]

Get Puff out there to help. Her smaller hands may come in handy when replacing the vacuum lines. :wink:

[R J]

Use Puffs small hands to get them back on.

I use a razor knife to cut a slit in the end so it will come off the fitting easier. This is the end that is under the airbox and usually on a 'T' fitting or a copper cou[pling or a valve of some kind.

Then I pull that end up, snip off where I slit it, insert a nail in the end about an inch or so, put the new hose on the other end of the nail and start pulling it through the maze. As you pull be sure and help feed the hose into the maze in there, cause if you pull it off the nail, you can be in deep umpah, (sh*t). When it gets to where it needs to go, cut off the hose and use Puff's small hands to replace it on the inside end. Your big fat hands can do the outside end. A nice pair of long handled needle nose pliers also work wonders....... Haven't done one for awhile but if memory serves me correctly there is 10 hoses. Correct me JeffK or Dragbars, if that isn't a true staement.

Well why didn't you say you wanted the instructions from the beginning.

1. Run the fuel tank as empty as you can.
2. Remove fuel tank.
3. Remove top of air box.
4. Remove the filter.
5. Remove the air box bottom half.
6. With any luck at all now you can actually see those ferkin hoses.
7. Now go slow and easy as I explained up North in this message.
8. Good Luck, cause if you do not have a small hand you are going to use some words you haven't used since you left San Francisco, driving in that stupid traffic that city seems to have 24/7.
9. Now go to step 5 and work backwards changing the REMOVE to REPLACE.
10. Special note in # 5. I use a small dab, spray actually of WD40 on the nipples hanging off the airbox so the carb gaskets, rubber thingies, will slide back on. Now if you have to use force to keep them on, you have not got them in place. Once they are in place the air box will stay there and all 6 of the tube will be on the airbox. DO NOT proceed to step # 4 till this happens. Cause if you keep going, when ya'll get done you will have to repeat, steps# 1 thru 5 and 9 and 10.