Airfilter Change

[Greg Cothern]

I agree, you clean it as often as you should change out the stock paper element, about every 8-10K miles unless you ride in a dusty area.

[Jerry G Turner]

anybody interested I have an K&N filter off of my 94 it was only on for about 2000 miles I will sell it for 20 bucks plus shipping.

[HardDriveUSA]

Funny you should post that here...  Twenty dollars you say?  I did some quick checking, it should fit my 96 nicely...

[Jerry G Turner]

My 2cents on a K&N air filter Dave Dodge sells them for 55 dollars a paper filter cost about 38 to 40 dollars you change them both at about 8000 to 10000 miles the paper filter you throw away and buy another one at 38 to 40 dollars the K&N you clean and recharge cost about 10 bucks for a recharge kit the paper filter you have to buy at a stealer ship the recharge kit you can get at any auto parts store. Well thats my 2cents.

[Curtis_Valk]

I like to throw my dirt away and start fresh with a new stock filter.  At replacement intervals of thousands of miles is cost really an issue?

I cleaned and re-oiled my daughter's K&N on her Civic and you can't convince me that it's actually clean.  You couldn't run fast enough to give me one for free.

Curtis

[Instructor50]

Greg

If your bike is totally stock then switching to a K&N wont require this, but would make it run a bit better with the adjustments.

So what if you did the muffler mod?  I cut the resonators out of my mufflers and didn't jet or shim anything and she runs great...I had thought of a K&N filter but didn't want to have to buy the jet kit.

Let me know.

[Jerry G Turner]

I like to throw my dirt away and start fresh with a new stock filter. At replacement intervals of thousands of miles is cost really an issue?

I guess that's why they ask paper or plastic, to each his own.

[Curtis_Valk]

Ummm, they don't ask that any more do they?      

Yep, I can't tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do with their own stuff, but I am not bashful about sharing what I would do and why (even if at times my reasons don't make sense lol).

I agree, to each his own..............or is it variety is the spice of life?  I always confuse the two!  

Curtis

[HardDriveUSA]

Right.

Changing the filter, whether it be a stock or a K&N really isnt that hard to change.
All you need is a 12mm wrench to remove the seat.
a 4 or 5 mm allen wrench to release the one bolt holding the tank.
and a philips screwdriver.

Check

turn the run/reserve valve too off. use a rag to catch the fuel from the fuel line when you disconnect it.
pull the tank vent. The hardest part.
and pull the back of the tank up then towards the rear.

Check
note for future reference:
  Gas is not compleatly shut off.  It still drips out.  Cost of new shut off valve a lil under $90

remove some philips screews and the assy. is out.

Huh?  How many of those boogers I need to take out?  I think I have them all, but the assembly not comming apart.  I'm missing something simple I'm sure.  I finally found time to work on getting the K&N filter installed, but my K&N air filter is still not installed.


Step not reached yet:

I did notice a performance boost when I changed the filter.She had a quicker response to the throttle, which she was never slow about to begin with.

would be nice though.

[HardDriveUSA]

OK.  I did miss 2 screws.  
After I wrote prev. message, I took another look.  But I still missed the fact that the air filter is big...  I tried to take just the "filter" part out, it didn't look like it would work.  A quick trip to Scooter Petes fixed that.  That was the bad part..       Was it that I couldn't see the forest cause of the trees or I couldn't see the trees cause of the forest, one of those.  The easiest part of the whole process I had to go to the experts.

But 4 hours later...
MY FILTER IS CHANGED       and my bike still runs.  I hear a little bit of poping.  

Won't take me near that long next time.  =)