Can I use UNI foam filter oil from the spray can to oil my K&N filter, is there any known advantage to using K&N's oil for filters?

 

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i use it after i use my AEM cool air.. i dont know really, i guess its suppose to keep the drit off.. but im not sure about "Foam" or "mesh" filters.. sorry man

 

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K&N filteres are a "gauze" correct? I didn't know they were oiled. If so, probablly regular motor oil. I use AMSOIL, which is a tad better, its a foam, uses their oil. I still reccomend K&N, although amsoil is better, its hard to find, took me 3 months, and they arent usually sold in common stores.

 

i just use the k&n oil recharge kit on my fake j's intake and it works quite well.

 

I would use the K&N recharge kit. It comes with a special cleaner and new red colored oil.

 

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I agree but I have heard that K&N oil is actually ATF. I have used ATF on my K&N before and it worked exactly the same filtering dirt well.

 

But do you think Foam Filter Oil would be suited for a K&N car filter? I suppose I could spend the extra $10 or whatever it is for K&N's.

 

Ya I wouldn't use the foam filter oil on the K&N, I pretty sure that it would hurt the flow ability as the 2 filter medias are quite different.

 

ATF huh? I didn't know that.

I have used hand cleaner to clean the K&N filter and it works as good as the spay crap in the filtercharger kit.

I bought a can of Bel Ray filter oil and it has lasted a LOOONNNG time

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Redline96LX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">K&N filteres are a "gauze" correct? I didn't know they were oiled. If so, probablly regular motor oil. I use AMSOIL, which is a tad better, its a foam, uses their oil. I still reccomend K&N, although amsoil is better, its hard to find, took me 3 months, and they arent usually sold in common stores.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Can anyone confirm or refute this? I've got some filter oil and I don't think that it's anywhere NEAR the same as good ol Amsoil or regular 10W30. I also don't believe that it's ATF until someone can prove that it is.

 

Well, K&Ns are gauze but as far as the filtercharger oil being ATF? Who knows? ATF will work as filter oil but I am concerned about it's effect on the rubber parts of the filter

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Modified by devi1man at 12:15 PM 9/8/2004

 

well id rather use the K&N oil since i have a K&N filter. i wouldnt wanna do something to it that would hurt it. so i used the recommended products for it.