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Boot on top of carb

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The rubber boot on top of the carb is torn and broken. The parts diagram doesn't
show this boot at all. So I can't get a replacement. Is it okay to run with this broken?
Will it cause air leak into the carb?
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i think the boot is to help keep water from finding its way into the carb ,some older mx bikes have them but not seen one on a kdx before . you could try a bicycle inner tube pulled down onto the top of the carb & cable tie it to the throttle cable ..i have thought about doing this mod to my bike as i often ride when its wet & i sometimes get water in my carb/base of the slide (if i ride fast through water) which i think finds its way in through the top of the carb where the throttle cable goes in.
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The boot comes with a new cable.
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Slick_Nick wrote:The boot comes with a new cable.

Yes. It comes with an OEM cable and it does show on the fiche in the cables diagram. $26 from one on-line source (plus shipping, natch..another $8 or so).

There is also a boot on the MotionPro cable. Unless they fixed it, though, that boot does NOT fit. The carb end is too big.

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CC is correct, that boot is still f'up. You'll have to McGyver it to make it properly fit.
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I got that from a BRush post, It's not my figger'n of anything.

MP cables have been a problem more'n once. They (MP cables) didn't fit on my Banshee. I 'informed ' them about that, and supposedly they fixed that boo-boo.

Seems worth the time and expense to just get the right cable in the first place. OEM, I'm sayin'.

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