Ok so I made the very poor life decision to delete the evap system. It turns out it WAS worth the effort because the line coming from the gas tank was kinked shut, but they make it absolute hell on this model year. The canister is mounted to the frame with 2x10mm bolts behind the fan/right headlight.
You need to go ahead and buy a tool specifically designed for removing plastic pop rivets in tight spaces. This was by and far the HARDEST part about doing this - Literally just getting the damn things out (I broke about 10 of them, waiting on replacements). Taking everything off took me a good 5 hours of work. Putting it back together took an hour.
For some reason the powers that be at CFMoto decided to put the evap system on this model year in the MOST DIFFICULT place to reach on the entire bike. The setup is like this:
Vent line from gas tank into a check valve (This is where it was kinked, yours probably is too. Poor design)
Line from that check valve into the charcoal canister
Line FROM the canister, back up to another check valve with a sensor
Line from that check valve back up to the throttle body (Recirc line)
There is also a line from the bottom of the canister that simply points upward and is zip tied (For venting - Mine was full of mud)
To get to the canister and its associated lines, you need to:
Remove the seats
Remove the transmission cover and crank case cover (Easy - Just 10mm bolts)
Remove the fender well plastics on both sides. All of them (Hell - Mixture of pop rivets and bolts)
Remove all of the plastics on both sides (For me this was hell. The plastics that are directly against the sides of the gas tank have hidden screws. You have to be super careful not to break them, but you do have to bend the plastics quite a bit to access the screw heads.)
Remove the front racks/bars (Racks are 8xTorx head, bars are 4x 12mm bolts - Easy)
Remove the gauge cluster (2 pop rivets, a few bolts that you have to get at from the fender wells, and one main plug that is locking lever - Really easy actually, just be careful)
Remove the fender flares
Remove the plastics (One big piece) that covers the entire front
Throttle body capped (You can find these caps at pretty much any auto parts store)
Disconnect all of the lines connected to the canister at this point, with the vast majority of your bike torn apart lol.
Unmount the canister, shoot with 12 gauge
I am kicking myself for not snagging a picture of the line when it was kinked and still connected, but I was just trying to get done. You can see the kink here:
This is where the canister WAS mounted:
Here is how I have it set up for now. I disconnected the check valve that has the sensor, re-routed the wire/plug for it behind the fuse block, and then just reconnected it. No error codes yet lol. I cut the kink out of the line coming from the gas tank, put a hose connector in it, and then used a piece of the tubing I removed from the system to just extend it and route it up behind the gauge cluster. Up high, safe and dry.
I'm going to get a breather cap for it to keep water from getting in.
What an annoying mess. No more stalls! CFMoto needs to release a bulletin for this model year.
