Thread: First K&N filter clean, I wish I had millions of dollars

I'm just thinking about the chainsaw oil on the K&N filter. I'm imagining how much the oil itself blocked the filter and it possibly just washed the dirt through the filter.

The K&N stuff is more like a glue that doesn't dry than oil. You could spray it on a vertical wall and it wont run. It'll just still be there years latter, covered in dust. You have to use the K&N cleaner to wash it as well as nothing else soap based seems to move it. The K&N cleaner must have a solvent in it because it makes it hard to breath if you get a lunge full of the mist. I spray it on my hands to clean them afterwards because the normal shed hand cleaner I have that will clean grease and oil just fine, doesn't budge the K&N oil.

Happy Days.

As for rebuilding the TD5. My single cylinder Honda 110 postie cost me $400 in engineering and and parts alone. I had a good engine shop in Queanbeyan that looked after me but I'd hate to think what it would cost me for that type of work here in Darwin. There are likely to be more shops but they charge the rate that mines will pay.

I'd hardly take the head of a motor without porting and polishing and replacing valves. To me it's just doing the hand work that Land Rover didn't have it the budget of building the motor. I'm sure we all wish or motors were hand finished and assembled but we don't want to pay Ferrari prices for our 4x4s.

Happy Days.

Despite what every body says im a fan of the k&n and after a dusty trip it gets washed and reoiled, ive got a few mates using them to all long term with out dramas, this is my real world experience...

Umm errr yeah, I have had one in my Surf for 10 years, 200000km, a lot of that offroad, no dust in pipes after filter, been good for me, don't know about bench testing, but real life testing so far so good.

Cheers
Kev

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Like I said. I wish I had millions of dollars and I'd give these haters a K&N filter and if their motor died because if the filter. I'd buy them a new motor. Problem is their motors are probably already stuffed from having problems like I've had with paper filters.

It's nice to have a thread where you can post about your K&N success and not get shot down.


I might ask a mod to have the previous few posts removed. As they are not really relevant to the thread.


Happy days.

Lol.
That's not being precious, that's just Mr LR being friendly, although I'm sure he'd be happy to oblige you with an alternative response
You're a big boy, if everyone else can tolerate it, you can too

I've read through Ben (Isuzurovers) thread and while I'm not science-y by any means I can understand it enough to get the point of it.
What you do with your car is your choice, it's not like someone's going to reach through the computer screen and smack you.
But don't right off the evidence against K&Ns simply because it's been done in a lab, I think you'll find Isuzurover gets amongst it with the best of them.

You can't just ask for disbelievers not to post on a public forum now can you?

I'm thrilled you have had such a great run with yours, but there are many here that have seen both bench testing and real world testing of paper v K&N and the results don't back up your claims.

It's like other subjects on here - you won't convince those that don't want to change and have made their minds up on what they want to use, you'll just be wasting your breath.

Personally, I wouldn't use them because you can see daylight through the rather large holes in them. Good for stopping insects and twigs, not so for fine dust particles.

Just my 2 cents.

Ripping two paper filters sounds like some serious operator error.