Thanks to all for your insight on foam oil filters. I don't know what brand
they are, but I do know they are foam and not fiber. Here is a link to a
picture of one of them.
http://webpages.charter.net/houghtaling/FoamFilter.JPG
These are on a car that belongs to a friend of mine. I am getting ready to
drive the Missouri Endurance Rally this weekend and as my Triumph was not in
drivable condition, my good friend has offered me the use of his TR6. With
such a generous offer I am trying to return a little bit by doing some
maintenance and tune-up work on his car.
Since I do not have the cleaning and oil products for the filter I decided
that one cleaning with gas was better than a dirty filter. For future
cleaning I would like to obtain these products. Is this something that
might be available from local automotive dealers, or does it need to be
bought by mail? If it is local, what do I ask for? If it is by mail, who
do I get it from? Is it possible that I might be able to buy new foam for
these filters? These are several years old and they are starting to get a
little tired.
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:44:22 -0500
From: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>
Subject: RE: Foam oil filters
Hi Creig:
I have K&Ns on my TR6. I recall the K&N instructions said not to use
gasoline. I bought their oiling kit which comes with a cleaning solution and
a bottle of red oil. The cleaner certainly does seem to get out the dirt.
That being said, perhaps they are just promoting sales of their kit. Gas
seemed to do a good enough job the first time I cleaned the filters, before
I had the kit.
Cheers,
Mark
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:27:40 -0700
From: Steven Newell <steven@newellboys.com>
Subject: Re: Foam oil filters
Creig may have a foam filter like RamAir rather than K&N. But either one
has it's own cleaner and oil (or polymer maybe for RamAir). These filter
are reusable and the cleaners claimed biodegradable so the
earth-friendly thing to do would be to use the correct fluifs. What with
gasoline's risks, seems like it'd be friendlier to you too, Creig. :)
Steven Newell
Littleton, CO
'62 TR4
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:04:10 -0800
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Foam oil filters
I'm told that gasoline will eventually damage the fibers in the K&N filters
and spread little white threads all through your engine. My friend with the
914-6 that this happened to said it didn't appear to have harmed his engine,
but was disturbing all the same. He thought they might have plugged some of
the air bleeds on his Webers. And I'd guess that with part of the filter
element gone, they didn't clean as well as before. (He just replaced the
filters, so no report on that topic.)
However, I wouldn't describe a K&N as "foam", unless you're talking about
the foam pre-filter that some of them have. The element looks more like
filter paper between wire mesh to me.
Even if the 'official' cleaning solution is just dish soap, the potential
for ex$pensive damage seems to outweigh the cost of following K&N's
instructions. Just one re-ring will buy several lifetimes worth of cleaner
& oil !
YMMV of course
Randall
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