Here's a picture of what it looks like with the seal pulled up through the base. If this is the way it's supposed to be,
THAT IS INCORRECT!
here's the easy proven method and YOU will need to remove your airbox base-plate before going to step #1. as follows:
1-confirm that rubber air boot is correctly seated onto the throttle body AND that the spring clamp is correctly positioned onto the base of the boot.
2-either put a light coating of O-ring lube or mist some WD-40 onto the entire top side of the boot lip. the lip is the part that you will be pulling up thru the hole in the base-plate.
3-install base-plate and tighten all 4 plate-to-frame torx screws.
4-now with THICK straight blade screwdriver....work the boot lip up thru the hole. you will see that the lip actually consists of 2 halves separated by a slit.
5-once you have a few inches of the lip up thru the hole then switch to a long shaft THIN straight blade screwdriver and go around the slit of the lip working just the UPPER PORTION of the lip onto the base plate. the lower portion will automatically seat itself under the base plate when done correctly.
what most people fail to understand is that the motor is designed to "move around"....and the base-plate is affixed to the frame...so the base-plate is in a fixed position. the boot and sealing lip is what ties both together and forms an air-tight seal between the throttle body and the complete airbox assembly. if not installed correctly the bike inevitably runs like sh*t.
make sense???????????????