unifilter v paper

Vince,
OK; I'll bite.....why was it taking you an hour and a half to clean and re-oil the foam sleeve?
I take the outer off and wash it in petrol/kero/turps etc (petrol is the best as it dries real quickly). Once that's done (about 3 minutes) all should need to do is apply some new oil and work it through. Pesty put me onto the idea of putting the oil and foam into a re-sealable kitchen "Glad-Bag" to do that part, so you don't even need to get your hands all messy. Once completed, you just snip off a bottom corner of the bag and drain any remaining oil back into the bottle. You're still gunna get a bit of oil on the hands putting the sleeve back onto the filter. Whole job shouldn't take any longer than 15 minutes; tops...and that's allowing time for a cleansing ale while waiting for the cleaner stuff to dry off a bit.

Sorry Vince, I gotta agree with Roachie on that one, I had a unifilter inthe Rocky and it was the bees knees mate, saved me hundreds of dollars in filters!
I havn't put one in the Surfer yet, was wondering about air temp sensors as I had a mate with a WRX who had problems atributed to having too much oil on the filter and it galzing the air sensors.
Obvious solution = don't put too much oil on, but it depends how many cleansing ales you've had as to how easy that is! he hee.

I got a pile of foam ones that were GIVEN to me(shows you what others thought of them)... Im with Vince, waste of time and money..

but agree with Roachie, more than 10 mins to clean and oil? where you picking out each grain of crap with tweezers and a microscope? You should be able to do oil and air filters and oil change in under an hour!

Been done 29042039480239402394032984 times before... try the archives.

Hey Vince , think about it, if the same amount of dirt goes into the airbox, and the oiled foam filter does such a good job of catching it all, then if your paper filter is 'cleaner' under the same conditions, - where did all the extra dirt go ????

Guys, oiled foam / oiled cotton filters are supreme filters, the most common mistakes are over-oiling the foam , or letting it go a year and having the foam dry out. Quick tip - dont use the finer filter oil, it's too thick and hard to work in / squeeze out. I use the castrol oil and find it is great, easy to get it spot on..

Yeah you can get some coating on the 'hot wire' air flow meters, any good tech will tell you that, but it is an easy job to give it a quick squirt of some carby cleaner when it is service time..

oh- yeah, a stock air filter for my jack costs about $ 90 one use only, the uni-filter i have had for a few years and have cleaned about 15 times cost me $ 75 , $ 10 in oil. Same with our hilux's finer filter...better filtering, better airflow, better power, better economy, better money in my jonny rocket..

BTW - takes me about 15 minutes tops to clean mine, if i am doing really dusty work i whack in an extra 'pre filter' thin piece of foam that can be cleaned in about 5 minutes by its self..

Sorry all !! Very SORRY Unifilter
When I got home late last night I had a look at the filter.
It's not a Unifilter but a Finner.
I followerd the instructions which said I had to wash in Hot water , Dry, BUT not in direct sunlight & away from heat and then re oil. It was taking me a very messy 15 min just to wash in hot water, then drying took forever. The reoiling took no time.
I will re look at the unifilter
Thanks for all the feed back
Vince

Bradley,
I tried that Castrol oil on my filter one time but it seemed to give off a real nasty smell through the exhaust.....enough to make my eyes water. I may have put too much on, cos as you said it is thinner and therefore easier to apply.
I think I'll stick with the Uni-Filter or Finer Filter oil. If you want to thin it down a bit before using, why not let the plakky bottle sit in a pot of boiling water for 5 minutes while you're cleaning the foam??
(just a thought, I've never done that myself).

There are other brands of air filter oil, havin raced bikes for 12 yrs, got to know the good stuff...

The really sticky crappy Unifilter oil is the goods (available from bike shops).. You stick the filter in a plastic bag with a few capfulls of oil. then massage the filter in the bag, this coats it, you could almost use a paintbrush to dab it on, then get an old pillow case, then squeeze the filter in the case to remove excess oil...

I'll stick with my paper filters thanks!

Truckster, the world must be back spinning in the correct direction as we disagree again! LOL.
Hope the missus forgives you soon!!

Blokes,
Ahhhh, you jus gotta love these puter controlled donks, don't ya???

I luv my 4.2t/d ol banger with not a computer in sight.

I agree with Aston.... the minute oil droplets do give the assorted sensors a coating and in some cases cause expensive failure.

Air flow sensors for example are $1400

yeah, spot on colin (see reply above )

as above mate, i have found the castrol filter oil great, the finer oil horrible to use, spray packs as used by a lot of motorbike guys are good but expensive.

DON'T use engine oil, it does not contain the tackifiers to make it sticky enough to catch all the fine dust. It will work but nowhere near as good..

The best stuff is Unifilter oil. Sticky as hell, and works awesome. Available at bike shops.