Air cleaner

[Ginormous]

Just ordered a pre-filter cover from Outerwears. I'll let you know how it works out. :thumbsup:

I got my prefilter from Outerwears. I think it's a 10-1010-01. I don't recall the cost, but it was approximately $15 including shipping. It measures about 5.5" long x 3.5" diamter and has some elastic around the opening hole. I took a piece of metal garden fencing I had around, cut it to a reasonable size and bent it by hand into a cage to hold the filter out during operation. Some of the metal extends inside the end of the air intake. I used a hose clamp to hold it on. Here's a picture. I opened up my air filter after bush hogging, and there weren't any pieces of stuff. The Outerwears prefilter has a hole size of 5 mils (~100 microns) so only the fine stuff should get through.

 

[clemsonfor]

I got my prefilter from Outerwears. I think it's a 10-1010-01. I don't recall the cost, but it was approximately $15 including shipping. It measures about 5.5" long x 3.5" diamter and has some elastic around the opening hole. I took a piece of metal garden fencing I had around, cut it to a reasonable size and bent it by hand into a cage to hold the filter out during operation. Some of the metal extends inside the end of the air intake. I used a hose clamp to hold it on. Here's a picture. I opened up my air filter after bush hogging, and there weren't any pieces of stuff. The Outerwears prefilter has a hole size of 5 mils (~100 microns) so only the fine stuff should get through.

You may want to think about flushing that radiator and overflow bottle and refiling it. Assuming thats not orange antifreeze!

 

[clemsonfor]

FYI, I recently bought 3 filters from Hoyes for my YM1700, and they do not have a felt gasket on top, just metal.

Im thinking mine has a faom type material on it when i bought it last year?

 

[Ginormous]

You may want to think about flushing that radiator and overflow bottle and refiling it. Assuming thats not orange antifreeze!

I flushed it over and over and over not too long ago because the water kept coming out orange/tan colored. It's not too surprising that heating/cooling has knocked some more junk loose. I need to change the mix for winter time, so I'll probably wait until fall and clean it out good while I'm at it.

 

[rhett]

I flushed it over and over and over not too long ago because the water kept coming out orange/tan colored. It's not too surprising that heating/cooling has knocked some more junk loose. I need to change the mix for winter time, so I'll probably wait until fall and clean it out good while I'm at it.

By chance, are you removing the upper and lower radiator hoses to flush the radiator and then the engine block?

The engine block is where most of the rust scale will accumulate, settling on the bottom. With a hose nozzle, spray in the bottom port changing angles to loosen the rust scale sediment. You will be surprised how much flushes out if done as described. Flush from both top and bottom repeatedly, for both radiator and engine block.

For radiator coolant and for a rust preventative during summer use, I am using 'Water Wetter and Water' mix only.

Back to topic, nice pre-air filter sock.

 

[Ginormous]

rhett -- no I didn't pull the hoses off the engine block and spray in. Just sprayed/drained the radiator. Maybe I'll do that.

 

[clemsonfor]

filter i got from hoye was with some oil filters and a few other things i cant remember now but included some lynch pins, but anyway i ordered it for when i needed it. I put it in toward the end of last summer after reading on here that the original yanmar filters were a wahable cloth. Not sure if this is correct or not but i did like someone else mentioned and since i had the original yanmar y on mine i put it in the shed if at a point i cant get the correct replacement (which i doubt will happen as these things are so popular and there is a market for them, if we keep buying) filter one day. Any dealers or others know if this is the truth?

I also noticed that on the Hoye site they list theirs as a cloth type filter not paper, but dont say its washable.

 

[284 International]

The Outerwear pre-filter looks good. They are awesome, and work really well. They intercept a significant amount of particles, from sand and larger dust particles on up. If you keep them free of oil or grease almost everything just sloughs off, too, so you don't even need to clean them off really. Nice work.

 

[clemsonfor]

How did you tighten the hose clamp tight around that rubber hose?

 

[Ginormous]

How did you tighten the hose clamp tight around that rubber hose?

I'm not sure I understand your question. The simple answer is that I tightened the hose clamp until it was tight. When I first put it on, I didn't have a hose clamp of the right size, so I used a couple of rubber bands. I thought it would fall off, but that was enough to keep it in place. The hose clamp is MUCH better than the rubber bands. :thumbsup: