Unifilter cleaning with K&N kit?

[chippy]

Kinda had a K&N Airfilter cleaner laying around, started spraying my Unifilter with aerosol cleaner when i kinda realised one is paper based and the other is foam.

So what should i do, should i continue to oil it up with K&N cleaner, or just abort and buy a new filter?

Live in norway and cant find any close vendor for either K&N or unifilter.

(did find some posts about this in forums, but nothing that persuaded me)

 

[chippy]

Found my Unifilter Oil courtesy of SoS:smile:

Handwashed the Unifilter, reoiled it, and gonna install when it dry's up.

 

[rsevo6]

As I had a foam filter that needed to be cleaned and reoiled, but only had a K&N kit available in my garage, I called a racing gear shop who sell both foam and K&N style filters and reoiling kits for these. They told me I could use the K&N cleaner and oil on the foam style filters too, no problem

 

[integrals]

To be fair, the KNN assembly is actually cotton based, not paper and their recharge kit should be friendly for both types of media!

 

[chippy]

To be fair, the KNN assembly is actually cotton based, not paper and their recharge kit should be friendly for both types of media!

Thanks for clearing it up:smile:

 

[FogCityNSX]

I have both kits. To clean either one will clean foam no problem. As for the oil, the K&N is WAY thinner. The UNI foam oil is sticky and gooey. Same stuff you use on dirt bike foam filter that you had to knead to get the oil distributed.

Personally I would use the proper oil for the proper media. As for cleaning, the foam can handle just about any cleaner.

K&N oil is simply oil.
UNI oil is thick sticky goo. Has to be to make up for the HUGE open voids to allow air to pass but still collect dirt.

 

[d.n]

+1 for this

Personally I would use the proper oil for the proper media. As for cleaning, the foam can handle just about any cleaner.

 

[swerve2007]

i own and use both uni and k&n. while cleaning is really a matter of preference, i found that the light oil k&n prescribes is quite useless- it is so light that it blows off and dries out in a matter of days (i did several checks at different time intervals to validate the results). for both filters i use a regular dirtbike filter spray oil (whichever one you prefer it really makes no difference)- for k&n i just spray it over very lightly and uniformly (the uni needs a bit more to saturate the foam). it works great, there is absolutely no dirt bleed-through like with the k&n oil.

edit.
i live in the desert so the dust conditions don't get more extreme that here.