Oil In Air Box
I recently bought a used KLX250sf and as one of my things to check was the air filter. Once opened the air box had UNI air filter installed and a bunch of bugs. So I decided to clean around and then i noticed the lower part of the filter was soaked in oil? As much as i tried to dry it off it was still oily,why did this happen? should I change it or just wash the filter?
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Remove filter, wash, re-oil, reinstall, good to go.
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Originally Posted by fr4nci5q0
(Post 464242)
I recently bought a used KLX250sf and as one of my things to check was the air filter. Once opened the air box had UNI air filter installed and a bunch of bugs. So I decided to clean around and then i noticed the lower part of the filter was soaked in oil? As much as i tried to dry it off it was still oily,why did this happen? should I change it or just wash the filter?
Initially I thought it was because I put too much oil in during a recent oil change and it worked it's way up to the air filter. But then I learned the filter is suppose to be oily. I'm not sure how oily though. It seemed like the rim of my filter was pretty oily so I squeezed the excessive oil into a rag. I just ordered a K&N filter so it will be a moot point for me soon. |
Not a problem, the filter is supposed to be oiled. If you put too much on it will just drain out of the drain tube.
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If you do a lot of highway riding, oil can actually come up the crankcase vent as well.
On my longer highway trips with a lot of sustained 70 mph riding, often I will find a little bit of oil at the bottom of the air box. They all do it, nothing is wrong. |
I think most of the oil observed in this scenario is from the filter itself. However, depending on crankcase pressure, it's also not that unusual to have a small amount of oil aspirated into the airbox tube. So unless you're bleeding a really noticeable amount of oil into the airbox, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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My KLX likes to puke a bit of oil back into the airbox if I fill the oil more than dead even between the hash marks on the oil sight glass FWIW.
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Even a K and N filter requires oil on it to work properly.
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Originally Posted by linkin5
(Post 464286)
Even a K and N filter requires oil on it to work properly.
Still, it's not too unusual to get a little oil from the crankcase into the airbox tube. It should only be a little bit, however. |
Oil in Airbox klx250s
Originally Posted by fr4nci5q0
(Post 464242)
I recently bought a used KLX250sf and as one of my things to check was the air filter. Once opened the air box had UNI air filter installed and a bunch of bugs. So I decided to clean around and then i noticed the lower part of the filter was soaked in oil? As much as i tried to dry it off it was still oily,why did this happen? should I change it or just wash the filter?
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