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air filter question.

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Ok, I searched long enough for the answer to my question and cant find it, so am asking. I have a 78 GS750E. I ordered an air filter from BikeBandit. They didnt have one for a 78 so I ordered the one for the 79, same bike right? $29 for this thing. After it arrived "2 weeks later", of course, it isnt the same as mine. It is the same shape but mine is a paper filter, this one is foam. My question, can I use this foam filter and if so, how the heck do I install it? Hopefully someone in here has experienced this and can help me out. Thanks. (V.R. Paul)
 
Yes you can use the foam one. You will need to get some foam filter oil, and oil the filter. You can then just take out the screws in the filter assembly remove the old filter, and put the foam one on. Easy as can be.
 
Sweet, thanks bro. The filter I received is oily so I am assuming it is ready to go. I will give it a try. Thanks for the speedy response.
 
When it comes time to clean and re-oil the foam filter you don't need to spend extra $ for "special air filter oil" regular 30Wt engine oil works just fine...
 
Air filter oil is light, but very tacky and dosen't settle and drip into your airbox either. Just another point of view.
 
I use the filter foam oil and a pint bottle used on a couple of road and 4 dirt bikes has lasted for three years and there's still a little left so the filter oil is not really very expensive. I've been using the PJ1 brand for years and like it.

Mike
 
I use PJ1 also and it's not the least bit messy and a can of it DOES last along time.
 
Well, I got it in and it seems to be making a big difference. No more bogging down at higher speeds and it ran a lot more smooth today than with the dirty old one. I did find out that the old one is an old K&N, from a few years ago. I would have cleaned it but it was extremely dirty, and the bike runs better now anyway, so screw it, I through it away. Thanks for the help fellas! Preciate it.
 
HootiHoos said:
Well, I got it in and it seems to be making a big difference. No more bogging down at higher speeds and it ran a lot more smooth today than with the dirty old one. I did find out that the old one is an old K&N, from a few years ago. I would have cleaned it but it was extremely dirty, and the bike runs better now anyway, so screw it, I through it away. Thanks for the help fellas! Preciate it.
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Glad it's running good. Just for your info, paper element filters cannot be cleaned. You say the old one was a K&N. I've never heard of a paper element filter from them. They make gauze/metal screened filters.
 
gauze/metal screened

Yeah, thats what it is. It didnt look like K&N at first because it looks like paper, but when I tore it apart, I seen the K&N emblem on it and it hit me.
 
Yikes, as long as the K&N was in good shape other than being dirty someone here probably would have loved to have had it. A little warm soapy water and a reoil would have made it like new.
 
K&N's will clean up almost indefinatly. Unless damaged, just clean um up and go.
 
Yikes, as long as the K&N was in good shape other than being dirty someone here probably would have loved to have had it. A little warm soapy water and a reoil would have made it like new.
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I know, thats the bad part. I bent it all up after I took it out because I was beating it on the ground watching the dirt fall out and after I did that, I realized it was K&N. OOPS!
 
Let me add something, I just bought this bike a month ago so i'm not the one who put the filter in there. I know someone was thinking, "How could this guy not know he had a K&N air filter in his own freakin bike". Gees, thanks alot yall, now I feel like an idiot. :lol:
 
We've all done things like that, we just don't usually admit it.
 
Confession is good for the soul. And it gives all of the rest of us a chance to laugh at someone else other than ourselves for a change :)

I have made stupid mistakes in my life, I know that. Many of them worse than this.
 
When I first bought my 750 I ordered a couple of paper filters before I even locked and found out I had a foam filter already installed. I used on for my trip to Washington as the trip came up suddenly I threw in a new set of plugs and air cleaner and took off knowing I'd need to get another tire before I came back.

I still have the one paper filter as a spare but really didn't need to buy them.

Mike
 
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