Glue in the air box..is it normal?

[anteva2]

Today is a rainy day and I have taken advantage of the opportunity to do some minor maintenance work. When I removed the air box I noticed that on the lower part of the outside, the part that goes into the carburettors, there is a thread of glue next to the nozzles, and I don't know to what extent this is so or if it was the previous owner who did this when he noticed a leak. I certainly never noticed this detail on my previous Vmax. Suspecting that it had a leak, I reassembled the box ensuring that it was correctly seated on the carburettors. I started the bike, waited for it to warm up a bit and sprayed a bit of carburettor cleaner on the base of the boots and perhaps it accelerated very very very little. I must say that for the amount of spray I put on it hardly accelerated at all. I don't know if that thread of glue has anything to do with it. I am attaching some photos.

 

[Traumahawk]

It looks like someone just glued in the boots to the airbox.

 

[anteva2]

It doesn't make sense. The boots are one piece. The only thing I can think of is that it was to prevent oil leaks through the walls of the carburetor... I don't know, it's crazy.

 

[Fire-medic]

I could see that if the boots were old, tired, and brittle, and perhaps no-longer supple-enough to provide a decent seal between the boot and the box, that someone used a schmear of contact cement or 'gorilla snot' to seal them up.

You already did the carburetor cleaner spray on the boots to see if the RPM's increased, and by your report, very-little happened to increase the RPM's. I'd say that you can probably leave things alone and ride it to see how things are.