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bandito2 It's all good man! Misunderstandings are easy through the typed word and being one who frequents Reddit etc, I can tend to be a bit defensive too.

Thanks again for your thought out and informational response. I'm going to do one more good going over under my plastics and around my engine to see if I can find absolutely ANYTHING that may need, want, or be missing a hose attached to it. If that black cylinder is in fact an air filter it would make perfect sense that the hose is supposed to hang out somewhere safe.

For completeness' sake, here is that video I found of a guy who had what I assume to be the exact same type of system I have where the hose is left dangling:

Thanks Jerry! Everything has been cake so far and hopefully it STAYS that way, haha.

By far the best part is how much my girlfriend enjoys riding and driving it. She's really in to it and that's great, in part, because my future two-wheeled purchases should be no problem .

bandito2 - Thanks for the response, it was very helpful. No need for the seemingly hostile tone though, I'm not an idiot, it was simply much more difficult to follow your first response without knowing precisely which part was what to follow what you were saying, so I appreciate you going photo by photo in this post. There are indeed 2 large hoses and one thinner one. The one large hose which is still connected to something is attached just underneath the horseshoe-like metal bar in front of the valve cover. I'll have to look in to your suggestions and report back soon.

Added more pictures and info.

Hey guys,

As I was tearing down my Powermax 150 earlier doing my deep PDI I realized two things.

1) Highlighted with red circles: Is a thick hose leading from the area circled in red in picture #2 near the starter solenoid. It's coming off of another somewhat cylindrical piece (electronic?) with about two or three other hoses leading off of it, one attaches to the head, at the moment I'm not sure where the other leads. The hose in question however leads nowhere, is unattached from anything, yet has a clamp on it that would suggest it hooks in somewhere. For the life of me I can't figure out its purpose. I assume it's vacuum related, but the scooter seemed to run just fine when I took it out. Could this be a PAIR cannister and the hose in question the fresh air intake?

2)Highlighted with a blue circle: Is a hose leading from my air box that came plugged. What is it? And is that how it should remain?





Thanks any help folks.

EDIT:

Here are some more specific and higher quality photos. This here is the device which the hoses originate from. The hose in question attaches at the bottom there.


This is the hose itself with a thing attached to it. Not quite sure what that is either, honestly, so fill me in.


And this is the only thing it appears it could connect to, attached on the other side of the frame:

Hey thanks gatekeeper! I hadn't even considered that!

Tomorrow is start-up day. I look forward to seeing how it runs. I'll be back with another video and some more pictures detailing my part swaps tomorrow evening. Only time will tell oldchopperguy.