Brand new here. Bought a used xplorer 300 and have been replacing warn parts with new ones. Found a hose attached just above the oil dip stick and the other end is melted and not attached. It has length to reach the carburetor but no obvious place reattach. I am assuming it is a oil return line but it's been awhile since working on a 2 stroke. Any help is appreciated.
Above the carb on the left side (When sitting on the machine) the top frame rail. You should see three plastic nipples protruding through the frame. The hose goes to one of those nipples provided they are still intact.
So the hose travels from the dip stick on the right side through the inside past carb area and into the frame on the left side? I have 1 nipple there being occupied by a carb hose. This nipple is just a solid piece that caps a vacume hose. I am not sure we are talking about the same hose. My hose is not long enough and I am not sure a thin hose like this runs that far anywhere. It's not thick and durable to handle any heat at all. I appreciate the try. Any other possible suggestions?
It's the transmission vent hose - without a pic, I'm not sure what hose is "capped", but neither vent lines or vacuum lines are "capped". The line from the carb to the nipple should be a float bowl vent. The vent hoses are simply located high up on the frame to prevent water from entering through the vent. There is a nipple on the bottom of the carb that is supposed to have a line attached to it to carry overflow away from the engine area - that line is supposed to have a one way valve in it to let overflow out, air in and prevent water from entering the carb during momentary encounters with deep water.
That hose goes to the middle frame nipple I described above. Plugs in right next to the carb bowl vent. That is where it is located on my 100% bone stock 1998 xplorer. Center hose in picture. The hose to the front is the counter balance vent line. So, from left to right in the picture. Carb vent line, trans vent line, counter balance vent line.
Wow thank you very much. I only have the carb vent line. The two other holes on my frame are empty. I need to find the counter balance hose now. Older Than Dirt you were 100% correct! So sorry for doubting you.
Old as Dirt, I have come across some more mysteries. I am replacing the starter and think I found the counter balance vent you spoke about. I circled it in a pic. Also found a thin white wire with a thin red stripe coming from a cluster in the back of the pull start case. Is this for the start button? The oil injector was bypassed by previous owner and I found a thick red wire and thick tan wire spliced together on the left side coming from the front wiring panel. Any thoughts? Anyone else have any thoughts as well?
That is for an oil injection hose - the barb is part #3 - the hose goes to a barbed nipple on the LH side of the carb (there are no clear pics of the carb that exhibit the oil line nipple location)
No idea on that one. There are a couple youtube videos floating around that show how to add a Diode into the wiring harness to bypass the reverse overide button. Perhaps that is what that is????. I would follow the wiring diagram latebird posted. Who knows what the PO did there.
Wiring on the 96 Xplorer 300 was pretty basic
red with a white stripe is switched power (hot when the key is on)
white with a red stripe is the control power wire from the starter switch to the solenoid
brown is ground
black is ignition kill
There was no tan wires - here's the color code
In your last post - there is no device in the wiring diagram with 2 red/wht wires going to it - I have no idea what it is or where it goes - might be year model specific
I have a white wire a bit thicker with a thicker red stripe connected to the solenoid. I will have to do a bit more wire tracing. Thanks for color guide.
Where did you get this diagram? Partzilla and Cheap cycle parts don't have this one. I can't find the vent tube you pointed out. I have Polaris xlporer A99CC28CA.
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