2014 Electrical Canister in air box? Keeps falling off mount

[95jersey]

There is some kind of electrical canister with a wiring harness in the air box (wish I had a better way to explain it). It slides into a thin mount that has no lock or secure way to hold it in place. It keeps coming loose and then bangs around my air box. I am sure it is only a matter of time before it fails taking such abuse.

The mount has no way to firmly secure the canister. What have you guys done to keep it secure?

 

[rosco]

That's your starter solenoid. Clean it and the rubber grommet that it slides into real good and then glue it in there with some ultra black silicone.

 

[shang]

I just threw a wire tie around mine and its stayed in place so far.

 

[pigpen966]

# 2 on the wire tie

 

[95jersey]

At the risk of sounding dumb (probably too late for that). Tie it to what? Once you slide it over the mount there is nothing left to attach a tie to?

 

[john r b]

sounds like something was changed. Mine has never come off. Any photo's?
how about criscrossing zip tys?I've got one i could send you, From a '13

 

[bukwheat]

+3 on the tie wrap....

 

[adv rider]

starter solenoid

Cleaning the mount, and bracket and using some type of emblem adhesive before sliding on sounds like a good idea.

 

[shang]

Here's mine. Hope that helps.





Normally I would have gone between the wires on the plug to keep the wire tie in place but I think this was a trail fix.

 

[95jersey]

Here are the pics. The first is the "canister" sitting on top of the air box. You can see the little slit where it mounts into the air box. The second picture shows the mount. The canister simply slides over this mount and nothing holds it in place. When you hit some whoops or get aggressive, it just slides right off and rolls around the air box (not good). The 3rd picture is how I modified it to stay in place. I basically zip tied it to the wiring harness and tried to keep it out of the way.

Anything wrong with using the wiring harness as an anchor point?

 

[shang]

Whoa! What's that thing!? Starter solenoid for a peterbuilt maybe??

 

[Dirt Dud]

I took my bike apart to grease and zip tye up . You can buy zip tye hold downs at a home depot , they are plastic squares that glue onto just about anything . They have slots in them that you put the zip tyes into . Also use some dielectric jell on all the electrical couplers . Mattos had went through and greases everything for me . That is what a good dealer does .