Dirty air filter

[Vtrkidda]

just changed a much needed filter , look at the old one plugs next

but my socket is to wide to fit in the gap have to buy one

Then oil

[lumpyv]

did it come with those 2 little sub filters? what do they do?

[Vtrkidda]

Found them in the filter box nah didnt really

[MacV2]

plugs next but my socket is to wide to fit in the gap have to buy one

Not having the Storm tool kit I to needed to find a suitable plug spanner, had a rake around in various toolboxes & found one from another bike tool kit the correct size head but too short.

Found another smaller one which fitted inside the first, couple of welds later, one long reach spark-plug spanner.

Nice bit of Blue Peter engineering & not a bit of sticky-back plastic in sight!

[VTRDark]

did it come with those 2 little sub filters? what do they do?

I would like to know the answer to this one as well.

Got an extremely grubby K&N in mine and noticed the two triangular foam filters in corner of airbox. When checking out the new K&N'ss noticed they come with blanking filters for these. Do they really make that much difference?
Anyway decided to buy a new kit instead of cleaning the old one.
Still waiting for it to arrive!

blanking filter in Fig. 1

(:-})

[Vtrkidda]

Plugs changed now I read the post above and found the plug tool in the kit tool kit looks complete although a bit rusty

Didnt have the sub filters just changed the filter over and some new platinum plugs from ACE ,oil and filter next

Then small stack swapped for big one still havnt got one yet waitng on a pm from masterdave

Oh and renthal 15 tooth front sprocket coming it will be wheelie great

[Jazzscot]

Favour required mate. See your old air filter are you just going to chuck it?????? If you are can you get a hacksaw out and cut around the moulded caps that go over the small triangle things.

I bought a K&N and it didnt come with the blanking caps so I was looking for and old filter to do this with.

If you could do that I would cover your postage etc.

Jazz

[Vtrkidda]

Yes mate not a problem ill get it out the bin pm me your details

Free post call it a favour

[Jazzscot]

PM sent

[tony.mon]

Those little triangular filter filter the air going into each carb behind the piston as the piston rises and falls.
You can just cut pieces of open-cell foam and lightly oil, and fit them in place of the standard ones.
Most off-road shops keep sheets of filter foam for pennies.
But I don't think they're expensive from Honda.

[VTRDark]

So they are just bit's of foam then like the original Honda ones Except K&N's version. When reading the K&N instructions it led me to believe they are blanking caps, meaning they are no longer needed with the K&N. Am I missing something here! or are those instructions just badly written? What effect would it have if they were capped off so no air was sucked into them?

Still waiting on my K&N kit to turn up. It will be interesting to see what they are made of.

(:-})

[seb421]

just changed a much needed filter , look at the old one plugs next

but my socket is to wide to fit in the gap have to buy one

Then oil

wombles me that's not been changed in a long while!

[Vtrkidda]

Not had the bike long the guy said it had just been serviced my butt

The plugs are worse but now changed