WHAAAAT? A DOWNSIDE to K&N filters?!?!

[Guest ratchethack]

Yep that's right and that helped me the other day to get one for mine.I just gave this number (164/01). This filter is also the same with the one that Gagiva Navigator 1000 has.

The fit into the box is perfect .

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Hey Alex - it looks like I threw away the box mine came in, along with the spec for the oil. It's no doubt standard filter oil (rhino smegma), but I want to know what BMC calls for. Please advise?

 

TIA

[Alex-Corsa]

Hey Alex - it looks like I threw away the box mine came in, along with the spec for the oil.  It's no doubt standard filter oil (rhino smegma), but I want to know what BMC calls for.  Please advise?

TIA

 

Well here's the warranty of the BMC it is suggested to use a BMC filter cleaner kit. (which is difficult to find in local dealers )

 

Here is also a link to a known Guzzi place where it sells it

BMC cleaner kit

 

I asked my dealer who also had the K&N s and suggested that the K&N cleaner -oil will be O.K. for the BMC's al well, dunno but as he explained it seemed that both are made of same quality of material and that K&N Oils will do no harm to it but instead.

[Guest ratchethack]

Thanks, Alex. Looks like BMC ain't gonna give up their recipe in hopes that every customer will buy BMC rhino smegma. Well, they ain't gonna get ME that easy...trouble is, I can't remember what I used last time around. A memory is a terrible thing to lose...

 

I do remember cleaning the filter in a weak solution of hot water and Simple Green and drying it carefully with a leaf blower before soaking it in *something*

 

Any suggestions for generic air filter rhino smegma out there?

[Alex-Corsa]

BMC rhino smegma.

 

What's that??

[TX REDNECK (R.I.P.)]

 

Any suggestions for generic air filter rhino smegma out there?

 

 

No! get up off of that fat wallet of yers. Now, how many gallons do you need ?

 

Look Here

[Guest ratchethack]

Thanks but no thanks, man. I ain't paying for garden-variety rhino smegma in a fancy bottle with a Name Brand in multi-color graphics. I want the GENERIC stuff. Seems to me I had a bottle of something left over from ~1975 & must've used it up last time.

[Guest ratchethack]

What's that??

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Tex can explain rhino smegma. He's really much better with such things...

[big J]

Well here's the  warranty of the BMC it is suggested to use a BMC filter cleaner kit. (which is difficult to find in local dealers   )

 

Here is also a link to  a known Guzzi place where it sells it

BMC cleaner kit

 

I asked my dealer who also had the K&N s and suggested that the K&N cleaner -oil will be O.K. for the BMC's al well, dunno but as he explained  it seemed that both  are made of same quality of material and that K&N Oils will do no harm to it but instead.

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Ohmygod no no noooooooooo!BMC's and K&N's cannot be the same material, otherwise I've wasted a whole 5 minutes of my life debating their relative qualities.

Please,please,purleeeaaaase,tell me it isn't so.

I'll be good,I'll honest to god be good,just tell me it isn't so..............

 

 

Do they do stickers?

[Guest ratchethack]

Say BigJ - what's y'er local single malt?

[Alex-Corsa]

Ohmygod no no noooooooooo!BMC's and K&N's cannot be the same material, otherwise Please,please,purleeeaaaase,tell me it isn't so.

 

I'm afraid it is. And there's the same company that produces this filter material, can't remember now but I can tell latter.

 

Do they do stickers?

Affirmative

[Alex-Corsa]

  I ain't paying for garden-variety rhino smegma in a fancy bottle with a Name Brand in multi-color graphics.  I want the GENERIC stuff.  Seems to me I had a bottle of something left over from ~1975 & must've used it up last time.

What do you think , isn't that K&N filter treatment stuff appropriate?

[Guest ratchethack]

What do you  think , isn't that K&N  filter treatment stuff appropriate?

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Yeah, Alex - I'm sure it'd work fine. It's just that I'm a tightwad on stuff like this. It's probably a low-grade paraffin-based (or some such) light oil byproduct that has a very limited market and sells for a few dollars a barrel, since refiners never give anything away. They tend to put lots of stuff like this in fancy bottles with name brands on 'em and sell it for $10 for 8-oz. bottle. The bottles cost them a lot more than the cost of handling the material just to get rid of it.

 

Ever hear of WD-40? A guy who lives in my county got the patent on it. It's kerosene with a couple of additives and a few squirts of penetrating oil. I think the markup over material cost is something like 10,000%. I mostly just use kerosene.

 

BAA TJM & YMM occasionally V

[belfastguzzi]

Ever hear of WD-40?  A guy who lives in my county got the patent on it.  It's kerosene with a couple of additives and penetrating oils added.  I think the markup over material cost is something like 10,000%.  I mostly just use kerosene.

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wot – just like wine gums?

[TX REDNECK (R.I.P.)]

Yeah, Alex - I'm sure it'd work fine.  It's just that I'm a tightwad on stuff like this. 

 

 

You still pissed about that Sears catalog thing ?

[Guest ratchethack]

You still pissed about that Sears catalog thing ?   

Ehhhhhh? You thinkin' of somebody else, or did I forget another sump'n'?