Breather hose bypass

zaatarnightrod · Mar 12, 2009

Has anyone here done an air breather hose bypass or mod. on their 1250, if so, any issues, recommendations or photos would be appreciated.

I've seen some sort of filters plugged to each hose in the air box, what kind are they, do they work well?

Thanks

NightRoder · Mar 12, 2009

Hey zaatarnightrod,

I did it on my 1130. Should be the same.
I had the little filters at first but they would get completely saturated with oil. I wasn't happy with that solution. So I decided to do something else. I used a hose to re-route the air breather and bypass the catch can in the filter base.

See my thread 'Winter Mods Part II' in the VRSCD section. I discussed what I did and have pics.

Good luck.

zaatarnightrod · Mar 12, 2009

NightRoder said:
Hey zaatarnightrod,

I did it on my 1130. Should be the same.
I had the little filters at first but they would get completely saturated with oil. I wasn't happy with that solution. So I decided to do something else. I used a hose to re-route the air breather and bypass the catch can in the filter base.

See my thread 'Winter Mods Part II' in the VRSCD section. I discussed what I did and have pics.

Good luck.

Thanks NightRoder, It looks like a nice clean cut solution.

I'm going to try Amsoil first (hopefully evaporate less than Syn3) and see if less oil makes it into the airbox, but your bypass is probably going to be my next step.

Hopefully see you on the road one day.

07 HD V-Rod · Mar 24, 2009

who sells this filter set-up?

rmartuszewski · Mar 24, 2009

I want to know also ^^^^^^^^^^^

dmlkm · Mar 24, 2009

For 2 years now I have had mine routed to come out the bottom of the bike. Had to get a longer hose of course. Just breathes out to the ground, no filter thing. This has been the best solution of all I tried.

chazy17 · Mar 25, 2009

Filters are K&N Extremes (PN: RX-4010)

07 HD V-Rod said:
who sells this filter set-up?

BADAZV · Mar 25, 2009

dmlkm said:
For 2 years now I have had mine routed to come out the bottom of the bike. Had to get a longer hose of course. Just breathes out to the ground, no filter thing. This has been the best solution of all I tried.

Do you get the traditional HD oil spot on the ground when you park? :stilpoke:

myvrodrocks · Mar 25, 2009

What exactly is wrong with the stock configuration?

hafnutz67 · Mar 25, 2009

I picked up one of those small filters from AutoZone and a plastic tee from the hardware store. I ran this setup all last year and I'm very pleased with it.

VrodG · Mar 25, 2009

Does this come in a kit ? is it a bolt on ?

07 HD V-Rod said:
who sells this filter set-up?

sykopanda · Mar 25, 2009

Looks nice. I did the same but used different filters, uniflo filters.... I like how it runs...

07 HD V-Rod · Mar 25, 2009

There is someone on this board that sells this as a set:
2- 1" Velocity stacks
2- K&N RX-4010 filters
1- Bypass filter

set-up kit is about $140.00 or something like that, can't remember his company...

I have a Ram-air air cover

as you can see the deep conclaved slop which limits the height of the stock set-up. (I had both my velocity stacks machined down and made a custom cover for the top of my single piece K&N filter. With the air vents, makes it a bitch to wash, well actually rinse w/o filling area with water. This dual set-up I could easily cover the filters and the water would now not get trapped on the bottom tray of the stock inner air filter tray...also easier to get to spark plugs.

sykopanda · Mar 25, 2009

I have the JEillusions Ram airbox cover also, the set up works great for this, as it is quite sunk in!!!

dmlkm · Mar 25, 2009

BADAZV said:
Do you get the traditional HD oil spot on the ground when you park? :stilpoke:

Actually I don't.

sykopanda · Mar 25, 2009

No oil leaks here either

jbracefan1977 · Jun 13, 2009

07 HD V-Rod said:
who sells this filter set-up?

I have the same K&N also and love it, I could not find a good deal on ebay so I found a discount coupon here: K&N RX-4010, or you can try one of the vendors on the forum here, you can usually find a good deal that way as well. This was very easy to install and I love it. :moped:

flying_ace419 · Jun 13, 2009

What is that tiny hose on the left side for? Thats a cool setup, I was just wondering what that small hose does and if I could just get the 2 K&N's and put them on the stacks.

BayouRuler · Jun 14, 2009

flying_ace419 said:
What is that tiny hose on the left side for? Thats a cool setup, I was just wondering what that small hose does and if I could just get the 2 K&N's and put them on the stacks.

That's for the crank case ventilation

flying_ace419 · Jun 14, 2009

Is there one on the bike stock or is that an add-on?

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