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The box does seal if fitted correctly - the element is the sealing lip.. it is supposed to be lightly lubricated along its edge prior to installation...

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Nice work Mitch! I am going to be lazy and try this without taking the wheels off I am also thinking about riveting the two pieces together and may be even spray it with some calliper paint. ...thoughts?

Originally Posted by BigBlueOne

Yeah it is the same as yours and is a proper pain to get on most times. Taking the plastic part off helps a lot though. The air box doesn't fully seal either as you can always see part of the air filter in the corner when the lid is fully done up. My air box isn't normally as dirty as yours but is always full of dead bees for some reason!

Originally Posted by Tombie

The box does seal if fitted correctly - the element is the sealing lip.. it is supposed to be lightly lubricated along its edge prior to installation...

You can see how the old filter has worn clean a contact area on the lif seal. The filter element should fit down inside the bottom half of the filter box... so it does look like it seals correctly.
Furthermore, the Lid does not have a lip on the edge with the tabs. So looking in you will probably see the orange of the filter elecment seal, but as long as it is sitting flat and sealed with teh lid it should be ok.

Originally Posted by Baytown

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I'm trying to eat dinner here, man!
But curiosity killed the cat.
What kind of lube tombie? Will KY do?

Originally Posted by dazzler

Nice work Mitch! I am going to be lazy and try this without taking the wheels off I am also thinking about riveting the two pieces together and may be even spray it with some calliper paint. ...thoughts?

I don't see why rivets wouldn't work.
But the stiffy is riddled with 5mm holes already. You'd need some pretty big rivets to make full use of the existing holes.
As for the paint, any port in a storm mate! 'Brembo red' would look pretty bodacious. Although for me, it will turn 'Nundle state forest brown' pretty quickly.

Originally Posted by Baytown

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Not quite. On filters I use food grade silicone grease ...

...might glue and rivnut it together. I got so many bits waiting to go on yet, this is one Ah well

Rivets... yes.
But Riv-nuts might be overkill. The stiffies are not really something you'll ever need to remove again.

..i am thinking about using these as rivets ..as in riv-nut it together