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Clean a Air Filter

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Raz Smith
Clean a  Air Filter

Today we're going to be doing a little bit more maintenance on the four wheeler since I run an open air box my air filter cleaner definitely gets more dirty than a typical air filter would and right now I'm just running a stock foam when I don't have a can in and that's we're going to be doing today I'm going to be going over how to clean a foam air filter so the first thing I'm going to go ahead and do is just kind of inspect it and see how dirty and how worn the filter is and mine is pretty new so I don't think I'm going to get a new filter I'm just going to go ahead and remove it and show you guys how to clean it so they do make products to obviously clean air filters from the manufacturers but honestly I just used on I've always used done and it works pretty well so I got a bucket of about two gallons of water here and I'm going to square a couple drops in whoo I forgot to take the plastic insert out so I'm going to go ahead and do that quick just like that and you do want to fully submerge your air filter cleaner to clean it properly so we're just going to go ahead and put it in the dawn detergent water and you're going to want to let that soak for a few minutes just to let that dawn soak into the filter and react with the oil so let's let that soak for a few minutes and come back so one thing we can do while we wait is you can clean our air box out so let's go ahead and do that I'm just going to use a paper towel and I'm going to squirt some wd-40 on it just as a cleaner and Meyer box is probably a lot dirtier than yours because.

 Cleaning Bike Air Filters The EASY Way!

I run with my lid off so pros and cons I guess alright so now that we finish that up let's check back on our air filter and finish that up alright guys so now that the air filter cleaner has been soaking for about 10-15 minutes let's go ahead and try to clean it you want to do is just wring it out after it's been soaking and you'll see a bunch of nasty oil dose water will start to turn green or whatever color and you can see the oil floats at the top of the air filter cleaner here super dirty see if we can get some yeah there you go there's that oil so what you're going to want to do is just treat it like a washcloth you just want to going to squeeze it wring it out over and over again just not too rough just massage it try to get all that dirty oil out of it and you'll see the water just starts to turn a nasty color this water is pretty nasty and use you wring it out you'll be able to see the oil just fall right out of it yep there's the oil right on top you can see some on my hand there the dawn really does a good job of extracting all the oil out of the filter and and it cleans it really well so I'm just going to go ahead and keep ringing this filter out I'll probably do this twenty to thirty times and then I'm probably going to change the water and just get clean good fresh water again and then rinse it again just to be sure and get all that dirt and up dust that's really a deep and embedded in the filter the really fine stuff is the stuff that it's pretty hard to get out and is the most damaging to your engine because stuff gets into a lot of tight places and not good

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