Kawasaki Air Cleaner

[graydog]

Personally....I think your idea is a great idea, good thinking out of the box...
Similar to when for about a year I had a BUNCH of left over scotch brite ( ..................

I have a 60 year old Lawn Boy. I still use it right up around the house.
It came with a filter that looks like an SOS pad but doesn't keep dirt out of carb. . I'm going to run out & buy a Scotch Brite Pad & make a better filter. Thanks

 

[bertsmobile1]

Foam wraps are available from all of the aftermarket suppliers at a reasonable price.
So it is a case of buying 3 or more wraps and swapping them every couple of mows .
They can be washed out in warm soapy water and are best washed with shampoo so you can take them with your into the shower
Pulling the filter off & replacing it too often damages the sealing surface on push on filters then they leak around there in prefference to to sucking through the flter because it is less restrictive .
When I service an engine, if the wrap is still in useable condition I wash it & give it back to the customer .
As a guess about 1/3 actually use them.
The commercial customers replace the wraps very regularly I sell them a lot of extra wraps but they do oil them.
Then there is a big difference between running a mower 5 hours a day and 3 hours a week .

 

[logert gogert]

Wait.....you arctially gonna use my idea....holy crap.?

And, no problem

 

[7394]

I converted my FR Kawasaki air filter to the FX 2 stage canister style.

Check the link in my signature. Works super.

 

[logert gogert]

Speaking of that,
1. Believe me, it’s AWESOME
2. Why’d you do it?
3. What are the advantages or gains from doing it?

 

[7394]

Thank You. I did it because it is a much better filtration system.

And the small stock filter & wrap needed changed every year. Wrap always needed washed.

The FX system has almost 5X the filtering media. I only put approx 25 hours per year on.

The FX system can "usually" run 200 hours on the outer filter & more on the inner. But the Filter Minder® will show me visually when the filter is getting dirty.

That is why.

 

[cpurvis]

X 3, That's about it.. Personally, I like the idea..

Now a much more free flowing air filter (like a K&N or such) could cause a LEAN condition, which could cause engine damage (burnt valves etc).. .

Buddy is too modest. He has fitted his Kawasaki engine with the best filtering system of all, a large pleated-paper air filter, complete with restriction indicator to show the operator how dirty the filter element has become. I would love to have this same system on my engine.

But I don't, so what I'm doing is to buy extra foam filter wraps and exchange a clean one every 10 hours or so.

 

[7394]

Cpurvis- Appreciate the compliment. Another reason I did this, I had the idea in my head since I bought my Kawasaki powered Toro in Aug, 20/ 2014, but let the warranty expire first, & talking with my Dealer, he said what I had planned can NOT be done.

That certainly helped with my incentive.

I would add your elevation where you live is important here, as too high of an elevation would likely require a step down 1 jet size or so to lean it out depending, & visa-versa. My system & elevation worked out well, as I'm still running the OE jetting, & Plugs still read very well.

Buddy