Breather question

lwright · Post by **lwright** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:25 pm

I took off the breather stack and notice a liquid, must be water in the bottom. Is that suppose to be there?
What suppose to be inside the air canister? Any replaceable filters?
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Thanks,
Larry

Grani · Post by **Grani** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:37 pm

It is an oilbath aircleaner so there should be oil at the bottom. You can clean the whole filter unit with dieselfuel if you don´t have som other cleaning products and then fill the bowl to the mark with new engine oil.

lwright · Post by **lwright** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:48 pm

Grani wrote:It is an oilbath aircleaner so there should be oil at the bottom. You can clean the whole filter unit with dieselfuel if you don´t have som other cleaning products and then fill the bowl to the mark with new engine oil.

Thanks so much for the info, I will take it off today and clean it up.

Thanks,
Larry

yelbike · Post by **yelbike** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:12 am

What type of oil goes in the breather?

JC · Post by JC » Fri Dec 26, 2008 6:30 am

Hi yelbike,
Welcome to the BB.

The air cleaner should use the same oil as the engine. If you use oil that's too heavy, it won't trap the dirt, if its too light, it could get pulled into the engine.