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Dazz
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 Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject: how can i keep my air filter cleaner longer ? |
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| I noticed how much my air filter clogged up on my rap350 over our weekend stay at manor must be there fine dust Is there a way to get a bit more life out of a filter before it cloggs up as we are going for a week next time and i would rather not be doing maintence each 2 days while on holiday ? |
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wa5
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Either dont ride the bike, or carry a second air filter so you dont have to wash and re oil during away rides |
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yogie
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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the very wise and old petew told me years ago, oil up some chux wipes and just let them stick to the filter, and peel them off, and leave them in the air box, works a treat. 
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Dazz
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| yogie wrote: | | the very wise and old petew told me years ago, oil up some chux wipes and just let them stick to the filter, and peel them off, and leave them in the air box, works a treat. |
hell of a tip there mate ......
i take it were oiling with filter oil
sticking them on
riding
peel it
stick on another? |
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yogie
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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I dont know about putting another on, but I just use it as a way to keep the weekend as hassel free as possible.
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2005 KFX700
With a few bells and whistles
and the twin yoshi's
American Star A-arms, tie rods
elka stickers
Shorty Shifter
I have a Waco
rossco gave me a flexx sticker
honda thumb
Great at climbing trees
durablue stickers |
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bigjon
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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1.) Spare filter
2.) Outerwear (if using a cotton gauze filter)
3.) K&N Powerlid with Drycharger
4.) other brands of filter lids
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Dazz
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:45 am Post subject: |
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i think im confused yogie
ride the quad with the air filter wrapped in the chux ?
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just stick the chux on when its dirty then peel it off ? |
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4stroker
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| yogie wrote: | | the very wise and old petew told me years ago, oil up some chux wipes and just let them stick to the filter, and peel them off, and leave them in the air box, works a treat. |
sounds like he came up with that trick before they invented outerweares huh!
just get some of these:
http://www.outerwearsracing.com/
and take some spare filters...
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yogie
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Dazz wrote: | i think im confused yogie
ride the quad with the air filter wrapped in the chux ?
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just stick the chux on when its dirty then peel it off ? |
ride with the chux stuck to the filter, then peel off when dirty.
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2005 KFX700
With a few bells and whistles
and the twin yoshi's
American Star A-arms, tie rods
elka stickers
Shorty Shifter
I have a Waco
rossco gave me a flexx sticker
honda thumb
Great at climbing trees
durablue stickers |
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yogie
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| 4stroker wrote: | | yogie wrote: | | the very wise and old petew told me years ago, oil up some chux wipes and just let them stick to the filter, and peel them off, and leave them in the air box, works a treat. |
sounds like he came up with that trick before they invented outerweares huh!
just get some of these:
http://www.outerwearsracing.com/
and take some spare filters... |
but dont outer wears only suit a k&n type filter and not a foam oiled filter ???
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2005 KFX700
With a few bells and whistles
and the twin yoshi's
American Star A-arms, tie rods
elka stickers
Shorty Shifter
I have a Waco
rossco gave me a flexx sticker
honda thumb
Great at climbing trees
durablue stickers |
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cammoquad
4fiddy Racer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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The 09 can-am mx has a foam filter with an outerwear standard
so you can fit outerwear to foam filter & it works well
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dillon66
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steal your mrs stockings they work well
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PeteW
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ahh the point with the chux is that you dont have to wrestle it off the air filter mid ride like you have to with a pre filter.
The idea of a pre filter is to stay on there where as the chux was more of a alternate version to a quick release filter skin which is hard to do with the shape of most quad air filters compared to bike filters.
An outerware cover will do the job most of the time the chux was more for extreme dust conditions when you need to get longer out of you filter. I've done it over pre-filters too.
an outerwares airbox cover will help the cause too. I'm not a huge fan of the K&N power lids though.
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