On my TEA there is a metal tube running from the air cleaner down to the carb. Good idea that it is metal, it passes close by the exhaust discharge. The issue is that this tube, connected at both ends by clamps on a rubber connector is tough to remove until the air cleaner or the carb have been removed leaving one end free.
It might be easier to remove the air cleaner end, and indeed the left side mounting bolt is quite easily reached with a socket on an extension, but the right side bolt is more difficult, hidden behind the air tube. You can get at it incrementally with an open end wrench but it takes time and it's pretty easy to drop the bolt when getting the thread started.
Has anyone found a workaround that makes it easy to remove the connecting tube without removing either end? Maybe I am just using the wrong technique to get it off?
It might be easier to remove the air cleaner end, and indeed the left side mounting bolt is quite easily reached with a socket on an extension, but the right side bolt is more difficult, hidden behind the air tube. You can get at it incrementally with an open end wrench but it takes time and it's pretty easy to drop the bolt when getting the thread started.
Has anyone found a workaround that makes it easy to remove the connecting tube without removing either end? Maybe I am just using the wrong technique to get it off?
