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Posted by: 87_250R
Posted by: 87_250R
mine was not very messy you just use a good soap to get it off your hands ever hear "Be a man use your hand".
Posted by: blaster18
I need to clean my K&N i know i HAVE to use the stuff but is there anyother way.
Cause i just want to clean it so everthing is going right when i put it up forsale in a couple days
Posted by: Banshee_16
I use PJ1 filter cleaner and oil. First you spray the cleaner on the filter adn let it sit for about 15 minutes, then wash it out with soapy water.Make sure you get all of the soap and cleaner out. Then let it dry completly. Now just spray the oil on it( it is red so you can tell where you have and have not got it.) It make sno miss at all. The cleaner will take the oil out the nest time.
Posted by: Banshee_16
The oil stays tacky, that is what traps the dust and dirt.
Posted by: snowshark
Gooch,
I re-oiled my Rancher last week. I must have used to much oil, it was dripping out of the filter. Also, the quad wouldn't run when the filter was re-attached. Finally drained enough out it would run. I have red sticky "stuff" everywhere. I used the PJ-1.
I highly recommend using gloves. I will in the future!
Posted by: tprender
Use plastic gloves, You can get a box of 100 for about $7. They also work great for other messy jobs(bearing,oil changing,putting air filters on,etc)
Posted by: Gooch4x2
Man, there's gotta be a better way. Cleaned and reoiled my filters for the first time and I'm hoping somebody will tell me it doesn't have to be like that every time. A real mess, and I wonder if I over-oiled them or squeezed out too much. I did the plastic bag routine recommended somewhere.
A K&N would be worth the $ if it only did away with this. Please tell me cleaning that or a Uni for instance is easier than stock foam, or is there a better way to do it? Yuck.
Thanks in advance
Posted by: Gooch4x2
Thanks guys. The spare filter idea is a good one--same mess doing two as one, but half as often. K&N sounds good too. Some have said they're not as good in fine dust, but I'm inclined to think that's not true, especially with a pre-filter of some sort. Providing K&N finally gets around to making one for a Rancher, right snowshark?
I started them up this weekend--couldn't go riding--and they seemed to run alright. (As usual the Rancher took some cranking and fiddling, but the Recon burped on the first touch.) I did use plastic gloves, but the bag part was a bad idea. I'll try a small bucket or something next time.
Posted by: Lasher
On my Banshee, I switched from foam to K&N. It is much easier to clean and oil. K&N has a special oil that you use. No where near as messy as the foam oil. Since the oil comes in an aerosol can, you just spray it on and let it dry to see if everything is "rosy". With the K&N, I don't feel as bad using the kitchen sink to clean the filter.
Posted by: ridzhard
It is a very messy job, but there is nothing like the satisfaction of a very clean air filter. Sometimes when I have trouble sleeping at night I will go and clean filters. Very peaceful in the garage at night. Seriously, if you keep a spare filter for each machine you own, and keep a good maintaince schedual, you can do that messy job once for all your filters and get it done with in one shot. For me the clean-up is the longest part.
Posted by: MuddyRancher
K&N is a nice spray can and does not get messy.
Posted by: MuddyRancher
I would not use anything but the cleaner and oil it comes with.
