Air filters in Australia

Hi Brendan, If you are interested in some interesting reading on filters read this, I don't/won't use a K&N off road.
http://www.duramax-diesel.com/spicer/index.htm

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Originally Posted by pawl

Hi Brendan, If you are interested in some interesting reading on filters read this, I don't/won't use a K&N off road.
http://www.duramax-diesel.com/spicer/index.htm

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that's a great site pawl , lots of info...

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Originally Posted by rick130

Stay tuned to the Tech forum as isuzurover should be posting the results of back to back testing between K&N, Donaldson and Coopers 300Tdi Defender filters, K&N 300Tdi Disco and V8 RRC.
On the fine dust test Ben had to double check he was feeding the test media in the right side of the filter as the particle size hardly changed.
Don't believe the marketing.

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Thanks Rick - don't worry - haven't forgotten ;) Stay tuned.

One of the major F1 race teams switched from K&N to fibrous filters after both their engines were destroyed during one race in bahrain!!!

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Originally Posted by rick130

Where does one get an oil analysis done?

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here's one:
http://www.au.sgs.com/home_au_v2/sgs...tm?lobId=21986


caveat - I work for this company in another country... that said I can tell you it is more use when using the same oil with regular samples over time as then you get a trend...

i use the stock defender donaldson type filter with a snorkel with donaldson pre cleaner on top and after most trips away this time of year i get around a 1/2 to a cup of dust out of the pre cleaner from a days drive. money well spent

seems the evidence is clear, F*** me side ways. Might have to start looking at something else.....:(

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Originally Posted by rick130

Where does one get an oil analysis done?

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Hymie PM me. I have kits I post out auswide.

SJ, do you do interpreting or just the analysis ?

Been using ALS for testing but get a bloke in the US to interpret results.

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Originally Posted by twitchy

K&N are guaranteed for 1 million miles for a reason, I run one in my Disco & have had no problems.;)

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Take your K&N filter out and hold it up to the sun, those holes you can see are the size of the dust particles that will get through to your motor, good luck, Regards Frank.

My opinion of K&N strainers is that they keep out the small rocks and the low flying birds. For serious outback work use a Donaldson with snorkel and scoop. Look at all the road train operators. The swirl bowl precleaners are meant for stationary and slow moving plant and are not really effective at highway speeds and can cause restriction. Donaldson used to recommend against fitting them to on-road vehicles. The cyclonic effect and evacuator valve on the Donaldson will dump a lot of dust before the element.