• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Cleaning air filters with ordinary household products?

I just used used a biodegradable degreaser yesterday for the first time called "ReleaseAll", followed by a bath in water & ordinary dish soap. I've haven't seen my filter this clean since I bought my bike back in 06.

Worked great.:cheers:

P.S. It cost about half what other degreasering fluids are going for.
 
I dont't bother with air filters anymore I just use a pair of my wives old stockings, the gussett area seems the best.
 
I haven't had very good results with motorcycle products specifically designed to clean air filter elements, and I've tried a few.

Admittedly, I use gasolene, then soap and water, then Bel Ray air filter oil. I don't let the filter dry out before oiling it. Curiously, the oil seems to disperse more evenly when the filter is wet. Also the oil really displaces the water, so when you start squeezing the filter element to distribute the oil evenly, the water just pours out like magic, but not the oil. I make sure that this is done a day or two before a ride, so that the filter has time to completely get any remaining moisture out.

Depending on the brand of filter I use, they last from about two years for a Twin Air on up to the twenty for one of the Uni Filters that I have in my old KDX 200, but generally about four or five years.

In the old days, it used to be recommended that what ever two stroke oil you used, you should oil your filter with. I still remember buying a brand new Twin Air filter for my Pursang and pouring Bel Ray MC1 all over it. Within a minute or two, the filter disintegrated right in my hands!:eek:
 
Dirtdame said:
In the old days, it used to be recommended that what ever two stroke oil you used, you should oil your filter with. I still remember buying a brand new Twin Air filter for my Pursang and pouring Bel Ray MC1 all over it. Within a minute or two, the filter disintegrated right in my hands!:eek:
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LMAO, hate to laugh at your misfortune, but that's funny, I would have been flipping with an endless chorus of profanity. :cheers:
 
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