VSTROM Project Bike Repair PART 2: Valve adjustment, a mystery in the gas tank, and more

This video covers day two and three of our 2012 Suzuki Vstrom DL1000 project. A bike that only cost us $700, but can we get it running again? Watch us tear apart the bike, and work on the valves and gas tank.
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[@dwagler]

Crazy ...looking through the parts-fiche for that bike, that part does NOT belong in the fuel tank at all. ...no idea what it is!

[@moniquefilips1000]

Video 3 will solve the mystery!

[@moto.squish]

I'm thinking it's part of the fuel vapor emissions system, and it was connected to pipe on the underside of the well the fuel cap sits in. Maybe broke off from vibration.

[@moniquefilips1000]

@@moto.squish Without giving it away...I will say this...it is the reason the bike stopped working for previous owner. He had the tank off and drained, but he must not have ever moved it the right way to get it to slide around inside and make noise.