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K&N Panel Cleaning

Post by Vanny » 11 Jun 2012

I've had a K&N replacement panel in the car for around 5 years now, in both petrol and diesel cars. I originally bought it at a FrenchCarShow possibly in 2006 when the car was running a 1.9TD engine, and it hasn't been cleaned since!

I noticed on the last rebuild that the filter was looking decidedly black, so i ordered a 'recharge' kit and gave it a good ole scrub!

This is how it started;

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Black, furry and otherwise grim. Its a mixture of solidified diesel fumes, soot, grit, dead insects and bits of tree. All in all not good for breathing, and probably not to wonderful for the emissions. The kit was bought from the eVil bay for about £10.

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I set about cleaning it, initially following the instructions, but not for long. The instructions say spray the cleaner on, give it exactly 10 minutes and gently rinse it off, repeat if required. Well what a load of rubbish. After the third 'soak' i dialled the pressure up on the rinsing water (opened the tap a bit more) and ramped up the flow temperature (opened the hot tap), i also grabbed an old paint brush to get right into the crevices. 20 minutes later i had something that actually looked half way to clean. I applied the oil (included in the kit) and left it to dry.

The final cleaned filter looked like this;

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It's not perfect, there are still blackened patches, but it's much much cleaner. I don't have any easy way to measure the airflow through the panel, but i would imagine it is an improvement. It might be possible to get it that bit cleaner, but i was concerned about damaging the filter and not knowing it until too late!

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Re: K&N Panel Cleaning

Post by docchevron132 » 12 Jun 2012

I had one of them in the diesel. Tried one in the valver but found it ran rich with it in, which is odd! binned thm off and went back to the spec filters...
although, I could never be arsed to clean the fucking things either, so it might have been that..
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Re: K&N Panel Cleaning

Post by Philhod » 13 Jun 2012

:lol: :lol: The instructions probably don't allow for one in that state.
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Re: K&N Panel Cleaning

Post by docchevron132 » 14 Jun 2012

to be fair, even after a year I'm always amazed just how filthy they get these days, wasn't like that when I was a kid!
1989 BX 17TD P2 Hybrid
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1971 BL 350FG ambulance
1993 Dennis Lance 132 It's got mahooosive hairy bollocks!


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Re: K&N Panel Cleaning

Post by Vanny » 14 Jun 2012

That's because when you where a kid, petrol and diesel didn't exist!
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Post by docchevron132 » 14 Jun 2012

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It did! We had proper petrol back then! Pool petrol, 5 star, and real lead!
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Re: K&N Panel Cleaning

Post by Philhod » 16 Jun 2012

:lol: And diesel that resembled watered down tar.
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Re: K&N Panel Cleaning

Post by docchevron132 » 17 Jun 2012

see, when I was a nipper I considered diesel the devils fuel. Then dad bought the BX, and I thought diesel was great!
1989 BX 17TD P2 Hybrid
1990 BX 16V It's got big hairy bollocks
1971 BL 350FG ambulance
1993 Dennis Lance 132 It's got mahooosive hairy bollocks!


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