I think the feeding of my bike's hoses, cables, wiring around the gas tank is incorrect. This was pointed out by my mechanic.

My bike is a 2010 KLX250SF and the tank recall to install the dampers has been carried out. However, it looks like when the tank was removed and reinstalled that a lot of the cables, hoses, and wiring around the tank was not reinstalled properly. The bike was also dumped at some point so who knows what happened after that.

I'd like to put everything back to the proper spot. The throttle cable has a lot of tension on it that's preventing it from being adjusted properly and the hoses really block access to the choke. Plus I'm sure some of the hoses are touching surfaces they shouldn't.

Does anyone have stock pics of how the wires, hoses, and cables should run?
This is what the wiring on my bike looks like....

Left side of the bike:



Closer view of left side around radiator. Note the hose/rad wiring running on the outside of the spark plug wire, touching radiator, etc.



Closer view of the left side around the choke. Note two hoses blocking the choke, another two running in front of some sort of heat sink, and the coolant hose resting on the engine, a crap-shoot above that.



Right side. Sorry for the over-exposure, but my finger is on the throttle cable running underneath the radiator hose.



Thoughts?

 

That is definitely not the way it was supposed to go back together. That is a mess.
My connection won't let me blow up the pics, so I can't tell if your smog stuff is still on the bike, but from the mess of hoses, I'd say it is.
Look up the smog removal in the sticky section, probably some helpful pics in there too.
Might want to do that while you're in there...at least get all hoses off the motor.
Hope that helps.

 

Thanks. I will look that up.

Sorry about the pics. My trusty host no longer allows direct linking for free. If you click on the pic, I think you should be able to download it?

 

The service manual shows the proper routing. See the sticky near the top of forum page.

Yup, that is quite the mess!!

 

No download for me, I'm wary, try uploading from photobucket?

 

Pics updated with direct links.

 

Jeez that's a mess

 

Not as bad as I thought from the small pics.
Start by moving the grey hoses (tank vent lines) and routing them behind the loop of fuel line and behind the finned thingy (super technical term) and down through the clip on the front opening of the swingarm in as smooth a way as you can, this will provide much more room to shift other stuff.

 

Thanks! Already done It definitely free'd up a lot of room. From the few pics I could find for reference, it's not that bad.

Is there anyone out there with a 2010 KLX250SF that could take a few pics of their ride for me? Very much appreciated!

-Matt

 

Hey matt my names matt and i have a klx351sf. I have some pics floatin around here.