i put it under the water and i cant find the drain plug any help would be great.

 

The drain plug is under the right foot panel under the skid plate just inside the frame rail not far from the right foot peg. The skid plate has to be removed. I believe it only has 6 or 8 bolts to take the skid plate off, it's pretty easy to remove. You may want to cut a small hole in the skid plate near the plug for easy access in the future.

 

I haven't checked mine out yet. Should the vent be snorkeled up higher? I know Hibrass filled his belt when going through some deep water. Has anybody thought about this?

 

Drill or cut a hole in the skidplate to allow access to the drain plug in the future.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

BigDozer66

 

Ya, I wonder if Suzuki forgot to put an access hole to this drain plug?Why would you put in a drain plug and then not be able to get to it?I cut a hole in mine after I removed the skid plate!

 

11/26/2004

Hello All!

The KQ Belt case vent is located up under the rear fender plastic... It is pretty high but in my case I was in really deep water any deeper and I would have had water in the air intake.

Access to the plug is pretty strange, I think the reason Suzuki covered it was because it is just a simple rubber pull plug and they may have been concerned with it being knock out on harse terrian...

In the meantime I just returned from a hunting trip in north central WV and had the KQ in some really sloppy deep water and mud that was at times over the wheels, not as deep as the lake I was riding in, and I didn't encounter any issues with the case flooding or the belt slipping. So it would appear that my experiance was caused by extremely deep water. The access hole I put in the plate has worked very well at one point I check the case deep in the woods of Coopers Rock state forest and it made it simple to check and there was no water in the case.

Later,

Hibrass

 

Had the belt slip when hitting deep water fast.

 

KegCan,

I didn't notice the belt slippaged until I was on dry land.. And only when I was trying to accelerate hard... Once the water was drained the slippage stopped and eveything returned to normal.

Hibrass

 

Right, thats when i noticed it also.

 

thands for the help i just used a unibit to make the hole with out taking the plate off.