Yes its true. I have the street C&L and I think I over oiled it. I did what everyone said to do about evenly spreading the oil and what not but I think I put too much. When I first put it on the engine almost died! Now when I come up to a light it feels like it is bogging. What should I do? It seems like the problem would work itself out over a couple weeks but I remember everyone saying something about oil buildup in the TB?

 

It is probably the oil buildup on the MAF sensor, not the TB. You will need to clean off the MAF sensor, using some special spray you can get at any auto parts store. It is designed for MAF sensors, and will not harm electronics. Don't use Carb cleaner or anything else on it, you could really hurt it.

 

if you think you have to much oil on your filter can't you just reclean and then reoil it?

 

just buy MAF cleaner or electronics cleaner at the parts store and clean your MAF. It will run fine again

 

You can also try packing paper towels in the folds of the filter to wick some of the oil out. Then get some MAF cleaner to get any oil that might still be on the sensor. There are some articles on K&N site about oil on the MAF and they said in there tests of over oiling filters the oil and putting oil directly on the MAF sensor the air flow will pull of the oil off the senor.

What Does It Take to Foul a MAF Sensor? Extreme Testing
http://www.knfilters.com/MAF/3MAFSensorVideo.htm - Submerged MAF sensor in oil.


Can Oil Come Off Our Filters? High Airflow Testing & Engine Air Filter Dynamics
http://www.knfilters.com/MAF/2MAFSensorVideo.htm


What Can Contaminate a Mass Air Flow Sensor?
http://www.knfilters.com/MAF/4MAFSensorVideo.htm


K&N standing behind there products and helping the customer. Watch this is your dealer gives you problems about a K&N Filter.
http://www.knfilters.com/MAF/1MAFSensorVideo.htm



K&N Videos http://www.knfilters.com/MAF/massair.htm ...

 

thats why i'm just gonna buy a new filter instead of cleaning and re oiling

 

great post 07

 

When I clean mine I let it sit in the sun and breeze for a couple hours to dry up any excess oil. Works for me.

 

My new filter and cleaning kit our out for delivery right now. I'm going to put the new filter on, then clean and oil the old one. I'll put into a vacuum bag (without TOO much vacuum!) so it will be ready to go when need to "clean" the filter again.

I have considered wrapping a layer or two of paper towels around the newly oiled filter before I bag it so the extra oil can be absorbed while it is in storage. Anyone else tried this?

Hopefully, having a filter that is clean and ready to go on hand all the time will mean I will be installing a clean filter a lot more often than I do now.

 

Just wow!

 

One drop at the tip of each pleat where it meets the ends starts off the process. Then just drag the applicator tip down the pleat top and put a fine line of oil on it. S&B has a metered oil bottle kit and tells you exactly how much oil to use.

The filter should have bare spots after you do the above. Let it sit for an hour or so and the oil wicks into place. Then just go back and touch up any spots you missed.

 

+1

 

The vacuum bagging seems to work pretty well. After oiling and making sure I didn't have any dry spots, I let it sit for several hours to let the oil soak in. Then, I wrapped it in a couple of layers of paper towels and put it in a long vacuum bag then pulled a light vacuum on it (just enough to firmly pull the paper towels against the ridges of the pleats all the way around).

You could see were the excess oil was wicked off the filter and into the paper towels. Now, I can just put the filter out in the garage and it will be ready to go when the next ail filter change comes around. Nice and clean and dry in it's vacuum bag.