Simple Green to clean K&N guaze air filters?

[Rye]

Has anyone ever found a substitute for K&N gauze air filter cleaner? Simple
Green for instance? If so, what did you use and at what ratio did you dilute
it?

Thanks,
Rye

[Jim]

>Has anyone ever found a substitute for K&N gauze air filter cleaner? Simple
>Green for instance?

Never considered using Simple Green for that
purpose. Since it's biodegradable and relatively
mild once diluted a bit I don't know why it wouldn't
work. What's supposed to be in the actual K&N
cleaning stuff? Anyone have a bottle?

Jim
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[TelTech]

zrx1...@aol.come.eat.me (Jim) wrote:

>>Has anyone ever found a substitute for K&N gauze air filter cleaner? Simple
>>Green for instance?
>
>Never considered using Simple Green for that
>purpose. Since it's biodegradable and relatively
>mild once diluted a bit I don't know why it wouldn't
>work. What's supposed to be in the actual K&N
>cleaning stuff? Anyone have a bottle?

All it lists is sodium metasilicate; perhaps a more complete list of
ingredients would be found on one bought in the US - or do the
stricter disclosure laws apply only to food?
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[Jim]

>addre...@bottom.of.message (Dick Brewster)
>The US MSDS sheet only lists 3.5% sodium metasilicate, remainder
>harmless ingredients.

Ok, any chemists care to decipher for me
what on earth sodium metasilicate is???
My thoughts are if it just needs a gentle
degreasing agent and lot of water to rinse
then an air dry, Simple Green should work.
Just as long as it or any other cleaning agent
doesn't damage the gauze or rubber parts.

[Neutrino]

You might try shampoo or hand-cleaner. I know, shampoo sounds dumb but it works
pretty well as a handcleaner when you run out. Handcleaner without abrasives
(Goop for instance) dissolves grease and such very well (duh) but it won't harm
rubber or anything else. Shampoo does the same but not as well. If you want it
sprayable just dissolve it in water and spray away.

Have fun
-CC

Rye wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever found a substitute for K&N gauze air filter cleaner? Simple

[The ObsoElitist,,,,Paul Calman]

In article <19990610171856...@ng-bh1.aol.com>,
zrx1...@aol.come.eat.me (Jim) wrote:

> >Has anyone ever found a substitute for K&N gauze air filter cleaner? Simple
> >Green for instance?
>

> Never considered using Simple Green for that
> purpose. Since it's biodegradable and relatively
> mild once diluted a bit I don't know why it wouldn't
> work. What's supposed to be in the actual K&N
> cleaning stuff? Anyone have a bottle?
>

It smells like "formula 409", which works quite well.

--
Paul Calman, The ObsoElitist, Hathaway Pines, California
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[Steven Botnick]

I've generally use whatever is within reach of the sink when I have the
filter in my hand, so it has been Joy or Simple Green for the past 10 years
on several machines, all still in my posession... no ill effects noted. I do
use the K & N oil; it seems to be the most effective.

The ObsoElitist,,,,Paul Calman wrote in message ...

[Jim]

Alright, I've got a question. How often
should those filters be cleaned and
re-oiled? Supposedly they work a bit
better once a bit of dirt is on them but
how much is too much? For a streetbike
with no usage on dirt/oiled roads would
cleaning it every 10,000 miles be correct?
More often, less often?