bx2200 air filter strap broke (again)

[upgw]

I already have the redesigned part, I was wondering if there is another redesign to beef this up for if it's just going to keep breaking every 200 hours.. ?
Thanks,
- Patrick

 

[Jimbrown]

I have broken 3 of them the last one over 100 hours ago I looked at it and don't see how it hurts anything to just let the plastic parts move around I am going to just leave mine broke. I cant see any damage to plastic housing from leaving it broke

 

[Hootie]

Me to

 

[149owner]

When mine broke, I replaced it with a large plastic tie wrap. You can buy them at Home Depot, Lowes or maybe your local hardware store.

 

[dieseltoys]

Ditto here. Mine broke last year and after hearing the price I would be paying for the replacement part that seemed to be not much of an improvement over the original I just grabbed an extra large nylon tie wrap and secured the filter, it will probably last longer than anything else.

 

[upgw]

The strap is available separately from the mount, it was only $8. About 20 minutes to install... guess I'll stock up or try the plastic-tie approach.

 

[RonR]

Don't think mine is broken yet--guess I'll add a zip tie next time I'm under the hood!

ron

 

[AceDeuce]

My dealer made some sort of modification to the mounting point where the strap attaches to the engine in addition to installing the redesigned strap but I'm not sure what. So far so good though.

 

[scott_in_ny]

When mine broke I told my dealer when I was in there getting some new mower blades and he just handed me a new one and said they all break.

Tie wrap is a good Idea.

 

[JBX]

Tie wrap is OK but the plastic will get brittle pretty quick. My son took a piece of fire hose, about 2" wide when flat, cut a piece to length, drilled mounting holes and used fender washers and bolted it back in place. Has worked fine, gives when it needs to. That was 2 years ago and still going strong.