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Hello All , If you look closely at the airbox you can see the very bottom has a low catch area . This is right where the airbox drain fitting is. This airbox it seems was designed to catch this oil (or any other liquid/water) and allow us to drain it off when necessary. Good or bad it looks as though we are stuck with this maintenance. I think a better 90 deg baffle with a screen in the valve cover or a pre-catch just before the airbox entry would help a lot. In fact , I would be OK for now with slightly larger ID hose and slightly stiffer in construction. Also the brass fitting needs to have a larger opening ID so that crap can DRAIN ! I will be keeping the plug in the drain hose while driving the bike and after a long ride drain it .... .

[QUOTE="TonyA, post: 279056, member: 7317"] Hello All , If you look closely at the airbox you can see the very bottom has a low catch area . This is right where the airbox drain fitting is. This airbox it seems was designed to catch this oil (or any other liquid/water) and allow us to drain it off when necessary. Good or bad it looks as though we are stuck with this maintenance. I think a better 90 deg baffle with a screen in the valve cover or a pre-catch just before the airbox entry would help a lot. In fact , I would be OK for now with slightly larger ID hose and slightly stiffer in construction. Also the brass fitting needs to have a larger opening ID so that crap can DRAIN ! I will be keeping the plug in the drain hose while driving the bike and after a long ride drain it .... . [/QUOTE]

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