BX22 air filter bracket broken again

[ragman]

This is the fourth time it has broken, and I'm getting tired of taking it off and rewelding it. Each time it breaks, it breaks in another spot. Has anybody had any problems with this issue before?

 

[hdbikercouple]

yes it is mentioned awhile ago. i too welded it a couple of times. then i put two large hose clamps on it. problem solved. hope this helps

 

[LBrown59]

yes it is mentioned awhile ago. i too welded it a couple of times. then i put two large hose clamps on it. problem solved. hope this helps

try using wire ties

 

[TheFlatlander]

You would think that they would of learned by the problems that they had on that bracket, but they went back to that style on the BX2660. Mine broke and when the dealer saw it that was the comment that he told me.

 

[copperhead1967]

I replaced mine twice on my BX22. Then when I was checking under the hood of my friends BX23 I saw he had wrapped a shorter bungie cord around his when it broke. Mines been bungied for two years now... no rattle.

 

[EE_Bota]

Mine on the BX2200 is broken. The mass of the filter housing is so very low that I came to the conclusion that the bracket was likely breaking itself. What I mean is...if one simply put the bracket on with no filter housing in it, it would break all by itself, due to it's own weight being rocked violently back and forth.

I like the pull tie idea, also I like the short bungee idea, and I will use these on mine.

 

[Riptide23]

I have a BX 23, and have had no breakage issues yet. But I never set the throttle low enough so that the engine shakes violently, which seems to only happen at low RPM...

 

[TripleR]

I had my BX2200 for five years until I sold it yesterday after replacing it with a BX2660 and the bracket broke while I was prepping it for delivery. Like a previous poster, I rarely ran it at low RPM where all the shaking occurs.

 

[Dyer retired]

As LBrown suggested, my bracket broke two years ago and I replaced it with two heavy duty wire ties...they are still holding strong. If they break, I'll just replace them with another set of $.89 ties. I thought that the bracket Kubota came up with was way over engineered and far more expensive to replace than I was willing to pay. Dyer, retired

 

[rdsaustintx]

You would think that they would of learned by the problems that they had on that bracket, but they went back to that style on the BX2660.

This I GOTTA see. Anybody got a photo of the newest BX bracket??