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Motorcycle Forum / General / Yamaha / August 2007Air cleaner solvent and oil.
What exactly is Yamaha referring to when they say to use solvent to clean a foam air filter? What type of oil can be used to relube the filter? >What exactly is Yamaha referring to when they say to use solvent >to clean a foam air filter? >What type of oil can be used to relube the filter? I have used gasoline to clean foam filters.. Stoddard Solvent is available in North America. It seems be a proprietary mixture of naphtha, benzene, etc. I use kerosene on K&N filters which are made of wire mesh and cloth. Kerosene would work fine on a foam filter and you could use less oil. Light weight motor oil works OK. Foam filters eventually rot and fall apart. >>What exactly is Yamaha referring to when they say to use solvent >>to clean a foam air filter? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Foam filters eventually rot and fall apart. Gasoline or Kerosene will work to clean your foam filter. Just don't leave the filter soaking for an extended period (read days or weeks). Gasoline and Kerosene will both dissolve a foam filter if given enough time to work on them (this is one of the reasons that foam filters eventually fall apart and crumble). But, if you just soak your filter for a few minutes and then press all of the solvent out (don't twist your filter), and let it dry, you should be fine. As for oil, you can use any light-weight machine oil. Just make sure that all excess oil is removed before reinstalling your filter. Otherwise, you will have a gunky mess in your airbox and reduced airflow through the filter. >>>What exactly is Yamaha referring to when they say to use solvent >>>to clean a foam air filter? [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >will have a gunky mess in your airbox and reduced airflow through the >filter. kerosene is much safer...but stupidly, it's harder to find and you have to sign for it now! |
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