Engine/Transmission (1994 - 1998) HOw do You clean your AFE style Aircleaners??

[KYOUNG]

Just what it says, how do you clean AFEtype aircleaner and really get them clean? I am not to buzzed about the AFE clean system and would like to try something different, so it actually looked clean when I oiled it!Oo.

 

[BDaugherty]

I use a small tub filled with hot water and a little liquid dishsoap to clean my progaurd 7. I soak the filter for a few minutes and then agitate it in the water. It doesn't ever come out looking new, but after 2 or 3 batches of hot soapy water, the crud is gone. I use a little compressed air to blow backwards through it to get most of the water out... but I'm carefull not to get the air nozzle too close the the filter. I don't want to make holes in it, I just want it to dry in less than a week. Once it's 100% dry, I lightly re-oil it. I have a drop in paper filter that I run while the AFE is being cleaned.



As a side note:

I've had the PSM setup with the Progaurd 7 for over a year. A few months ago, I started commuting to work in my truck. When that happened, I bought a paper filter to run daily. I save the AFE for towing or hot-rodding. I can tell a difference in EGTs, but only at higher boost levels. Daily driving is not affected by the paper filter. Also, the cost of a paper filter is about the same as an AFE recharge kit so the $$ really isn't much different. For me, the main advantage is that I don't have to clean the AFE very often... which I hate doing.

 

[Mishkaya]

As one member suggested here a while back (sorry don't remember the original poster to give him proper credit) I tried using oxyclean on the filter then rinsing it in a bucket of hot water. Comes out looking like new every time. It's amazing how much better it looks compared to using the stuff that comes in the filter cleaner kits. Have been doing it this way for about two years now and wouldn't think of cleaning the filter any other way.

 

[Coalsmoke]

I have wondered how the new AFE pro-dry filters work. Anyone hear anything about them?

 

[HWestfall]

I have had a Pro-Guard system on my 02 with the Pre filter on it for about 5 yrs. I have yet to get dirt off it when clean the filter. Once a year. But the Prefilter I wash every month. I have tried all the ways mentioned. The $35. for the Prefilter is well spent.



Harry



02 3500 HO 6-sp.

 

[BEmmert]

I have the dry filter and it seems to be working well. I have tested it WELL here in the very fine dusty wheat fields of the Northwest. I have never let it get to the point that the pleats were full of dirt, but it has gotten pretty dirty and far as I can tell nothing has gotten though it yet. I take the tube off at each oil change to the turbo and check for leaks and as I said I cant see any dirt yet getting buy. Cleaning is quick and easy to. Just wash it in a bucket of hot soapy water and let dry over night. However it does not take that long to dry out. Can't keep a oil coated filter unplugged for nothing out here, so dry is the only way to go in real dusty conditions.

 

[budnate]

what brand dry are you running??



I need one for the new truck and have run the amsoil in the past it worked great but is a oil coated filter.

I have the dry filter and it seems to be working well. I have tested it WELL here in the very fine dusty wheat fields of the Northwest. I have never let it get to the point that the pleats were full of dirt, but it has gotten pretty dirty and far as I can tell nothing has gotten though it yet. I take the tube off at each oil change to the turbo and check for leaks and as I said I cant see any dirt yet getting buy. Cleaning is quick and easy to. Just wash it in a bucket of hot soapy water and let dry over night. However it does not take that long to dry out. Can’t keep a oil coated filter unplugged for nothing out here, so dry is the only way to go in real dusty conditions.

 

[BEmmert]

I am running the cold air intake setup AFE synthetic dry filter. Not the most expensive model of cold air intake, but it does not matter over here, those poor filters are surrounded by that dust no matter what you do.

 

[budnate]

thnx, can you run one in the stock airbox?..... btw thats not normal dust over there we call it moon dust as it's so fine and flat out gets everywhere, I lay in that stuff goose hunting.



peace, B.

 

[BEmmert]

No there is no way to make it fit in the stock box. Its a round filter that more or less hooks right up to the tube. I don't know if they make that filter for the stock box or not. Were abouts do you hunt over here?

 

[budnate]

dont get down your way much anymore to crowded for me, I am more up by, Ephrata, Moses, Quincy ... where ever the birds are going that day.

 

[BEmmert]

Im pretty lucky, they always come and land in the fields right behind the house to eat on the volunteer wheat. I haven't seen any guys really hunting them around WW for some time, a few here and there, I used to go up the Snake by little Goose dam. That's were dad and I found pretty good hunting for ducks and goose.

 

[budnate]

you have it made, wish I had a deal like that drag my stuff out in the back yard wack 4 birds and be in for the game, it got to be to far a run on snow and ice donw there and sometimes dragging the sled. . maybe getting older wiser slowed me down a little,lol.



it worked out best to leave the gear over by Ephrata and network out of there.

 

[BEmmert]

Do any wild turkey hunting? We have lots of those running around here to. Another one I can shoot right out of the back yard.

 

[budnate]

turkey hunting I have never done but it's near the top of things to do in the next few years, sure looks like fun. call when you got a big roost in your back yard.

 

[BEmmert]

Lol, best part is that I have never had to get all the hunting gear and go out for long hours. Just drive around for about an hour though some of the fields or walk out behind the shop and I have me one. About hit two nice big ones with the pickup yesterday.

 

[Coalsmoke]

I have the dry filter and it seems to be working well. I have tested it WELL here in the very fine dusty wheat fields of the Northwest. I have never let it get to the point that the pleats were full of dirt, but it has gotten pretty dirty and far as I can tell nothing has gotten though it yet. I take the tube off at each oil change to the turbo and check for leaks and as I said I cant see any dirt yet getting buy. Cleaning is quick and easy to. Just wash it in a bucket of hot soapy water and let dry over night. However it does not take that long to dry out. Can’t keep a oil coated filter unplugged for nothing out here, so dry is the only way to go in real dusty conditions.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to have to get one.