#1 boot falling out - pretty sad
The bottom half of the rubber seal is too long on this side - won't stay seated while I'm putting the cover on.
The air filter gasket seems to be trying to escape on the right side of this pic.
The corner of the rubber seal is just shredded on this side.
Here's the fixit material I bought - I know it says “open cell” but it's 100% rubber - this is dense foam.
Seems to work like a charm. I was surprised how easy it was to reinstall. I was expecting a fight.
I scraped the old foam gasket material our and this is the “after” photo of the weatherstip “gasket”. Perfect fit!
Another angle on the new seal.
I figured the tops still sealed pretty good, so I took a razer to the floppy bottoms and kept the tops. Sealing the top from the bottom would have been a real pain otherwise.
Then, my replacement for the bottom half of the seal. I did the same repair on both sides.
Just made sure there was no clearence between the two.
New boots.
Old boot under a bin of papers. Yikes! Until I got the new ones I thought they were supposed to be plastic!
New boot under a bin of papers. Ahhhhh. Much better.
Lovely fit. NOTE: Boots are actually installed upside-down, which I didn't figure out till I tried to fit the airbox to the carbs. Those "dots" on top should be facing similar dots on the airbox itself - UNDER the boot holes.
