Hi all would you recommend washing the airfilter in petrol? there seems to be some that would and some that wouldn't, the manuels says not but have conflicting views between mechanics here in NZ, any help much apprciated, cheers newboy
Hi all would you recommend washing the airfilter in petrol? there seems to be some that would and some that wouldn't, the manuels says not but have conflicting views between mechanics here in NZ, any help much apprciated, cheers newboy
Oh i just read some other posts and almost there with answer but, the cleaning kit i have says it will only clean the oil supplied by the kit, wondering if i should just throw the old one and start a fresh with new filter?
I was in a local bike shop earlier asking lots of air filter questions, and literally people behind me made an audible sigh when I asked about petrol as a cleaner, they also poo pooed the idea of turps.
All to do with 'barbs' on the filter anything other than a proper cleaner strips the barbs that keep the oil in place to trap the crap.
Quick search on the web at different cleaners talk about protecting and preserving the glue (easp where you have a two stage filter)
To keep it a little cheaper you can get granules which you add to warm water (£20 tub) but should last many many washes.
Proper Motul oil cost me £10 45 for 1ltr, but looks like will last 2-3 years!
Hope it helps.
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