Arwing64
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I have a walk behind leaf vacuum that I use every year to suck up leave in the Fall. It has a 6 HP Briggs and Stratton Quantum engine that has taken a licking and still keeps kicking. Although the engine works, I have to repeatedly take out the air filter after each day of sucking up leaves and blowing them out with an air compressor. Leaf vacuums create a ton of dust that will inevitably get sucked right in the intake. The dust and debris clog up that air filter very quickly, and I feel as if there should have been different styles of filters to suite different operating conditions.
For pressure washers, generators, or other equipment that don't sturr that much dust in the air, the engines are usually fitted with a common air filter, whether it be a foam or a paper filter. For lawn mowers, paper filters are a must and some units even come with prefilters. But what about for those really dirty machines, such as leaf vacuums, trimmer mowers, wood chippers, etc.? Is there a special air filter on the market that would better be suited for dirty environments?
I know that some newer engines actually have canister style filters, like the Professional Series engines, while the older Quantum style engines use the traditional paper panel filters, which are all well and good, but when you have so much dust in the air, there is going to be some dust that bypasses the filter and causes the engine to malfunction.
Is there anything aftermarket that would fill this requirement?
For pressure washers, generators, or other equipment that don't sturr that much dust in the air, the engines are usually fitted with a common air filter, whether it be a foam or a paper filter. For lawn mowers, paper filters are a must and some units even come with prefilters. But what about for those really dirty machines, such as leaf vacuums, trimmer mowers, wood chippers, etc.? Is there a special air filter on the market that would better be suited for dirty environments?
I know that some newer engines actually have canister style filters, like the Professional Series engines, while the older Quantum style engines use the traditional paper panel filters, which are all well and good, but when you have so much dust in the air, there is going to be some dust that bypasses the filter and causes the engine to malfunction.
Is there anything aftermarket that would fill this requirement?