CLEANING YOUR AIR-FILTER?

[Nireen]

Please can you all share what and how you clean your filter?  Can some kind of liquid product be used.  I know I been blowing it out with a air compressor but I don't always want to be running to the garage to have them do this.  I would like to do it myself but I don't have a compressor.  Suggestions please THANKS!

[Snorvey]

How often are you cleaning it out Nireen?

Unless you're living in a desert dustbowl, then quick blast once a year (or replacement at whatever the specified interval is) should suffice.

[Nireen]

No more than once or twice a year I blow it out.  Can we use a solution on it for filters?

How often are you cleaning it out Nireen?

Unless you're living in a desert dustbowl, then quick blast once a year (or replacement at whatever the specified interval is) should suffice.

[de dee]

Please can you all share what and how you clean your filter?  Can some kind of liquid product be used.  I know I been blowing it out with a air compressor but I don't always want to be running to the garage to have them do this.  I would like to do it myself but I don't have a compressor.  Suggestions please THANKS!

 look up K & N filters they will tell you the best way to clean a filter,   but not a paper filter? the kind that can be cleaned,  I have a DNA filter, that is cleanable, good for life ,.

[Mr. Paul]

I just blow mine out with a blower. I wouldn't recommend cleaning a paper filter with any solvents though. If it gets so dirty you cannot see sunlight through it, it is time to replace. Good luck Kat!

[Nireen]

I think the stock one is paper hey?

look up K & N filters they will tell you the best way to clean a filter,   but not a paper filter? the kind that can be cleaned,  I have a DNA filter, that is cleanable, good for life ,.

[Redk]

Most the factory stock filters are pleated paper element type.
They are very effective.

I would be surprised if you needed to remove yours and blow through from the backside with compressed air more than once or twice each year.

I don't care for the K & N's...  they are too pricey, require more maintenance, and I'm Not a racer.
Did I forget louder, smellier, and messy ?
Almost any mc/scooter mechanic can give you one of the K & N stickers if you ask.
Nearly as good as running one.
redk

[Stig / Major Tom]

Tap it, blow on it....or replace.
For entertainment. ..read how owners of the $8000 Burgman 400's wash their paper air filters.....or switch out filter material using $2 furnace filters!
IMHO  crazy behavior....
My thinking is that a clean, properly restrictive stock airfilter is mated to the operating engine by the motor designers, yes?
Stig

[Snorvey]

My thinking is that a clean, properly restrictive stock airfilter is mated to the operating engine by the motor designers, yes?

When I were a lad, changing to a non OEM 'performance' filter (on 2 stoke engines) normally meant changing the carb jetting and farting around with needle notches in the vain hope you might get something vaguely rideable.

Happy days.

These days I think, Modern fuel injection systems take care of that for you. Not that I would ever dream of using anything but stock parts on any kind of vehicle these days. It's just not worth the hassle.

[Redk]

In the distant past, I had placed a crudely fabricated disposable pre-filter within an airbox to save the stock filter a little congestion when under grueling operating conditions.  ( offroad desert sand/dust )
It helped.
redk