Refitting Crankcase Breather Tube To Airbox

Get a new hose. Old ones harden.

 

I used a blunt screwdriver last time. It doesn’t take much to get the lip into the right location.

 

Can you connect a small section of new flexible hose to both the original hose and the air box?

 

Plastic hose is available in a wide range of diameters, colours, and materials. What is the internal diameter you need?

 

A dab of silicone grease may help - if the hose is rubber.

 

Silicone Grease or spray used sparingly is your friend in this instance.

 

https://industry-and-engineering-hub.com/how-to-recondition-rubber/

 

i'm no help because i can't remember the "knack" to doing it, but i know it involves swivelling as there is a similar tricky hose on a Multistrada. I didn't use silicon grease.

 

Wintergreen oil, softens rubber.

 

Agree no metal tools i do try lolly sticks a lot especially the larger/fatter magnum ones you can eat it first whilst studying the job at hand,
I also use them for scrapping chain crap off around front sprocket etc.

 

Dipping the end of the pipe into boiling water before pushing it on sometimes works.