where do you connect the battery breather hose to? when i bought my bike, the hose was just laying on the side of the battery....now i don't know were to connect it to..

It doesn't connect to anything. It goes down from the battery, in front of the swingarm, and out to the right between the frame and rightside crankcase cover (just forward of your rear brake pedal). There should be several hoses coming out there.

There should be a "bendy" thing attached to the crankcase bolt on the lower left. It should be holding the hoses together in a bunch.

it doesn't connect to the battery? how does that hose help the battery?  :dunno:

Sorry, I thought you meant the bottom end.

If you have a stock battery or equivalent replacement there should be a hose connector coming off of the cover on the right hand side. It would be right where the aforementioned hose is located.

Do you have a sealed battery? Maybe they don't need the hose.

Quote from: GRUwhere do you connect the battery breather hose to?

The OEM battery for the GS500E and GS500F is a Yuasa Yumicron YB10L-B2.  If you follow the link you will see a small red plastic cap dangling just to the right of the positive battery terminal (on the right-most end).  You attach the breather hose to the same spout the red cap is pushed onto.  (You have to remove the cap if it's there.)  The Polarity diagram confirms which end the breather hose attaches to.

Here is a better picture of the breather spout and cap.  It's on a different (14-volt) battery -- and on the LEFT end -- but the idea is the same.

When my original Yuasa battery "gave up the ghost" I replaced it with a generic "economy" battery (part 378-1065) from Chaparral Motorsports.  It cost 1/2 as much as an OEM replacement battery (part 358-1065).

Everything about the econo version was the same as the original Yuasa EXCEPT that the breather spout was on the left end.  I rerouted the breather hose to the left side of the battery box, and hooked it up as before.

As joefromsf said, you won't find a spout at all if you have an aftermarket sealed battery.

thanks...i think that mine is aftermarket because it doens't have that red thing on it...

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GRU wrote:
where do you connect the battery breather hose to?

The OEM battery for the GS500E and GS500F is a Yuasa Yumicron YB10L-B2. If you follow the link you will see a small red plastic cap dangling just to the right of the positive battery terminal (on the right-most end). You attach the breather hose to the same spout the red cap is pushed onto. (You have to remove the cap if it's there.) The Polarity diagram confirms which end the breather hose attaches to.

Here is a better picture of the breather spout and cap. It's on a different (14-volt) battery -- and on the LEFT end -- but the idea is the same.

When my original Yuasa battery "gave up the ghost" I replaced it with a generic "economy" battery (part 378-1065) from Chaparral Motorsports. It cost 1/2 as much as an OEM replacement battery (part 358-1065).

Everything about the econo version was the same as the original Yuasa EXCEPT that the breather spout was on the left end. I rerouted the breather hose to the left side of the battery box, and hooked it up as before.

When I picked up my bike it came with a budget battery that had the breather on the wrong side and I had no end of trouble with it. For starters, it just wasn't as powerful as the OEM model and tended to die V.easily. The hose had been re-routed poorly and got caught in the rear shock, disconnecting the battery-end and resulting in my having a whole lot of corrosion on the inside of the chassis under the breather, made worse because the battery was constantly under more strain than it could handle.

Course, this is just one bad experience and you guys may have a better cheapo available. Personally, I got sick of the hastle and having to push-start my bike once or twice a week and shelled out for the Yuasa, managing to get it for $5 cheaper than the price quoted for the cheapo.

One of those occasions when I'd prefer to have the propper spec, especially after seeing how much better the bike runs with the higher-crank battery installed. Still, only my opinion...

R.