delboy630

How do you remove the filter so that you can add filter oil to the foam?

Thx Delboy

SAVAGEJIM

It depends on your filter. Most filters have a screw on the end so you just unscrew it and pull off the foam and faom holder assembly for cleaning, oiling, and/or replacing.

Other filter designs are smap-on kind with a sliding retainer to hold down one of the snaps.

Can you post a pic of your filter so I can give you better instructions?

delboy630

here it is.

SAVAGEJIM

That one is easy to get off. The hose clamp behind that UFO filter is what holds it on. All you have to do is turn the screw-nut on the hose clamp to loosen it and it will com off in a snap.

delboy630

Thanks very much, will do that tomorrow, as it islate here in Aberdeen, once again thanks savagejim.

Delboy

46u

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Looks like a K&N glazed filter to me and you will NEVER catch me running a glazed filter on mine or anything I run off road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like my engines to much.

SAVAGEJIM

No problem. This should be a real easy thing to do, you will have that puppy off in no time.

When you open it, if it is only a paper filter or thin filter, you should consider also getting a piece of filter foam element and cutting that to go indie of the paper element. 46u has a point; the thin paper element saturates really fast with dirt and grime and soon dirt particles seep into the carb intake and get into the engine's innards. By adding a filter foam element on the inside of the paper element, that will stave off much more particulates from entering the engine and doing a number to it.

You can find foam filter element everywhere. All you have to do is go to a lawn and garden section of your hardware store, buy a chainsaw or weedeater filter foam element, and cut that to fit into the inside of the paper element of your filter.

46u

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When you take that filter off and clean it hold it up to the light and I think you will find you can see through it. The best filter made in mine and many others opinion is the stock filter. Some like the outerware but I do not run one. I oil both my prefilter and inner filter and never get dirt pass the prefilter. I do keep and eye on it and if the prefilter gets to dirty while at the track I replace the prefilter with a clean oil spare I keep in my pit box.

I have been running 2 stage filters like comes stock on the HPI Baja for years and never got dirt in my engines. When you get 10 to 15 vehicles going around a track it gets dusty!

One other thing those filters are know for sucking dirt where the clamp is as well.

46u

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All so do a search on these and other forums and see what others have to say.

delboy630

Thanks guys for the feedback, so what do I need if I replace it with a new filter altogether?

Delboy

hndaman1

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I would toss that K&N type filter and buy the HPI dual stage...

SAVAGEJIM

A new filter should bolt straight on in almost all cases. The stock filters typically have their bases held in place by the two bolts that screw the carb and intake block onto the engine. Just unscrew the carb from the block, add the filter base, then screw on the carb back onto the engine. The filter element should slip straight onto the intake post and you scrw the holding cover or end onto the holding post.

Other filters are just like yours; you use the hose clamp to secure the filter neck onto the velocity stack or the raised intake stack. This way, you will not need to unscrew your cab at all; you simply use the very same clamp to secure it onto the stack.

SAVAGEJIM

I personally totally agree here. On both my G270 engines, they came with a single stage puny flat foam and box filter. I did not like those since those so I actually bought the dual stage filters and put out-wearers over those.

You hit it on the head, dual stage is the way to go, and the insides of my carb intake passage are crystal clean because of it. [sm=thumbup.gif]

delboy630

Once again guys thanks for the info, and I will be buying that dual stage filter.

Many thanks Delboy

46u

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This is what you need.
http://www.davesmotors.com/s.nl/c.88.../it.A/id.55/.f
Check on eBay as I picked up one new shipped for $10 US this week.