[walkedl]

Here's an interesting one... My buddy and I both own '06 250x. (Mine is faster of course)

Anyway, after a ride, he showed me how to dump the gas in the carb via a small drain screw at the bottom of the bowl that drained the fuel thru a hose to the bottom of the bike. Sweet! (I had always had to use a 17mm wrench and drain the gas all over the lower end of the bike).

When we went over to do mine, we found that mine had the indent where a screw should have been, but was not there. In fact, there was never a screw there at all - the place where it should have been was filled in from the factory.

What is even more interesting is it still had a drain hose connected to it.

Any ideas???

[bosshaug1]

That's strange...my '06 X has the screw???

[Asmith]

Your's either is an early 2006 ( still using 2005 parts) or somebody has installed a 2005 carb when you weren't looking.

[Codeman00]

I am the friend that he speaks of. Now we know why yours doesn't have a fuel drain screw!

[staticbags]

so did the 05 250x not have the drain screw? I am asking because i own an 06 and recently purchased anohter 05. My 05 does not have the drain screw but my 06 does.. just asking is this factory difference... are the carbs the same otherwise?

[JimDirt]

Yea , the difference is on certain years , same goes for the 450X and 250/450R's , I put a 06 450X bowl on my 02 450R just for that reason , the drain screw takes away all the mess of the 17mm bottom drain

But yea the 250R or X that has the drain screw bowl will work for your 05 , and will bolt right up , the only other differences for the years would be specific jetting for either the model , or the specific year , as jetting changed continually for the X and R for different years , but the main body/slide/bowl are all the same (again with the exception of that drain screw , which I believe the only reason for eliminating it would be for production cost savings , unless it has some kind of EPA implementation reasoning)