snorkel socks- good or bad?

I think they are made by Airtec so have a look on their site perhaps

Hi Mark, I thought I had a major oil leak in my turbo after fitting one of the Unifilter socks to my snorkel when I first had it fitted. I also had a Unifilter main air filter, with the turbo sucking heaps of air or trying to it started to suck oil from the rocker cover, which the hose goes back to the intake from the air filter box to the turbo. So I had all this oil running out of the turbo. I had a talk to a turbo specialist and was told not to use oil base filter with a turbo especially two of them.

Cheers Bruce

Gidday Mark

why would you want to put a sox over an air filter? Unless you're intending to work in an area that needs something like a Donaldson.

Regards

Kim

I've used them, mostly on the cape. Great idea cause it kept the main filter cleaner and was easier to clean the sock than the filter.

I have a Nissan Navara with a snorkel and use only a K&N filter without a sock. Have just completed a 17000 km trip around the top end through the usual dust etc up there without a problem. Had to clean and reoil it 3-4 times but find this very easy to do. Friend with us had unifilter sock and air filter which seemed very messy to clean and reoil.
through my experience I think I'd go with a K&N air filter only and forget the sock
Cheers Dave

I have a K&N filter on my truck that was fitted with the turbo, and I did think about the sock for our recent Birdsville trip, but fitted a Donaldson instead. I had been told that the sock fills up rather quickly which can lead to other problems..... the Donaldson does the job nicely!

Cheers

Brian

...........cheers for all the replies,thanx guys :-))

Just for information guys, I've done a little bit of internet reseach on this and it is general consensus that the good old paper type filter will filter out finer particles of dust than any of the "high performance" foam jobs. The foamies do allow greater air flow and therefore possibly better power and economy so are ideal to run on road where the air is cleaner but off road in the dust it is better to whack in the old paper filter again.