• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

New guy with a Strada with airbox questions

V8Astro

V8Astro

Husqvarna
AA Class
I've been reading the forums (CH and ADV) and I will say most air box solutions look like they've been covered for offroad / REAL adventure riding.

I understand the purpose of the foam filter but I want to keep the setup as stock as I can while ensuring a good seal. I think the paper element will be fine for my purpose. I put 12k miles on my NC700X and the air filter looked fine. My Strada will be run in the same conditions. My use of the bike will be 99% street/highway riding. It may once in a blue moon go on gravel roads.

To be more direct...has anyone sealed the air box halves and retained the stock filter assembly with good results?
 
The best thing you can do for your situation, would be a custom pre filter. One member took a piece of foam and put it in the snorkle, another took foam and put it infront of the filter.

I would use a variation on this, Coarse Scrubby with oil, in the snorkle area. Then pop the side covers and seal the seam best as possible with butyl calk or tape. The tape seems like a good recommendation.

The pod filter mod seems to be the best for the desert conditions in which I ride.
 
Not a direct answer to your question, however, the use of my Strada is very much like yours. I added the lawnmower foam pre-filter to the intake of mine as added insurance. I don't plan on investigating further until it's time for a valve check. At that time, if there's any sign of dust getting by the pre-filter and the paper element, then I have the parts to seal the airbox and use the printer made plastic frame with a unifilter.

High Five has posted the information on the lawn mower filter on Advrider,
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=24121125
 
For what it's worth, my 3D frame and Uni filter are sitting on my table at home waiting for me to get the gasket strip, adhesive, and caulking strip.

I'm somewhere around 5k miles, on my Strada, primarily commuting and pavement. I had my air filter out over the weekend, and the paper element is still clean. From what I could reach, the airbox seemed clean, but I didn't pull it apart to check the throttle body...I'll do that once I have the other stuff to do the full job.
 
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