I bought K & N cold air intake 69 series i think and installed at 10,000 miles now my car is at 51,000 and I never replaced intake filter(?) < I know its not drop in filter >. Do i have to replace filter for the intake? <Cone shaped>

 

cone shape? don't you just get those specific oil based cleaner by K&N and just clean the whole thing and soaked with newspaper?

come to think about it i still have that damn cleaning system in my garage that i have only used once!!!!

 

Good ? would like to know that answer.

 

http://www.knfilters.com/clningacc.htm
http://www.autoanything.com/air-filt...A1993A0A0.aspx

anyone wants mine?

 

After you clean it and oil it don't u need to leave it for few days to dry? Honestly i wouldn't clean the filter i just dont believe in that kinda stuff i would just replace it.

 

I have not replace my filter since the day I installed it. ran about 40k now with k & n intake.

 

Here found a video of a DIY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amVipb4u524

 

if you decide to throw away that K&N filter, hand it over to me, i'll be glad to wash it and reuse it hahahaha...... btw, the material on the k&n vs paper filters or cotton filters are completely different, so with what you can do to k&n, you can't do with other conventional filters

 

Which is why i would suggest changing it, unless you really wanna try cleaning it.

 

I had an oil k&n a while ago... I hated it, and it also made frequently checking and cleaning MAF necessary. I switched to the dryflow type and liked that much better and it's the only kind of K&N I would consider again. Now that I have this car, though, I'm over the whole intake thing - I found they do nothing but make the car noisier in a bad way. I like the quiet throwaways.

 

Can we just wash it w/ dishwashing soap and use a air blow gun to blow from the in side out, and let it sit for about 20 mins out side.. i think air gun will blow all the dirt out for sure..

 

you will still need to grease it otherwise it won't be as effective

 

few days to dry? that's if you pure the whole damn oil on to the filter. if you only lightly grease the filter, let it sit on newspaper overnight is all it takes.

 

y do we have to grease that sucker for after we wash it Henry? we only need to remove all the dirt all, that's it right? when i first received the filter,it doesn't has any grease in there

 

actually if you put that thing on newspaper and give it a few days, you will likely see some grease soaked into the newspaper. i actually did that on mine way back in the day and noticed the grease.

you want to get rid of all the dust and such, but you want to add just the right amount of grease so it will help trap the dirt and such. i am playing from memory but i believe that's one of the main reason. otherwise if not greased, the filter is more "free flowing" and can let more dust to flow through than you want

that's exactly why if you look at the link of the cleaner kit i posted, you see a can of cleaner, and then a can of filter oil spray.

but what a lot of people do wrong is they spray way too much oil.