One of the main reasons I cleaned it this week is because my inspection's due (well, was due:gag: ), and as usual, in this stinkin' blue state, successfully attempts to
lib. you to death, whether we're talkin'
permits to hike public trails, personal self-protection in public;read 2nd. amnd), or pc in the form of yer mode of transportation:soapbox: are the norm. 55mph, please....
For the last five years my emissions numbers have been creeping up, so before I get my next inspection, I even sometimes emory cloth the internal dist. contacts to max the chance of passing. Luckingly I got an old-timer who understands the old days. Does anyone remember using old pants belts as bearing journals/caps?!?. Seriously, I heard this story at his shop.
Anyways, like I mentioned in one of my latest posts, even with the pleats clear as day, not even in the sunlight, but in a pathetically lit garage, the floor of the intake manifold was as clean as if it came out of the factory.
Explorer, it's funny you say you let the filter sit to absorb the oil. The day I thought I had my inspection lined up, the night before I gently dried the filter with a hair dryer, and then after it dried and was oiled, I spontaneously placed it far enough (I thought) from a 30k btu propane torpedo heater :dunno: in my garage. Within like 10-15 minutes I had a puddle of k&n oil on top of the shelf. Talk about saturation point.
Try wrapping this around yer brain; When I stupidly owned a superbike, one of the guys on the forum recommened breaking in the new engine with
NO filter, his logic being all that dusty grit will make a great break-in medium.
We report, you decide. :jester:
Mike
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