Just dropped my 800 off for it's first service and the service guy told me not to oil my air filter. He said it already has three layers of protection and that he's found some Outlanders were sending a false "check engine light" reading and in each case he's found dirty diodes(sorry, don't remember exactly which one) with oil residue on them dripping down from the air cleaners and that BRP told him it was not necessary to oil these air filters because of their design.

Has anyone else heard of this?

I strongly suggest everyone get this first service done, he could tell right away I had a valve rattling, I told him it sounded a bit loud but these things make SO many strange noises it's hard to tell.

I also got a new lid for the front, one that inserts into the plastic like the models through 04 so it will look better then those damn zip ties.

 

you are only supposed to lightly oil the foam filter element with foam filter oil(ex. uni oil).

 

Is that different then any other type of air filter oil? What about old fashioned WD40?

 

yes the foam filter oil is thinner and doesnt soak the filter.

 

Mike I can't imagine what those guys were doing that owned the bikes the tech was talking about.

Foam filters need tack oil, 'tacky' or 'sticky', to work right. Twin-Air sells the filters and the tack oil. That's what I finally got after using the Twin-Air tack oil on the BRP filter for awhile. The tack oil is sprayed onto the BRP green foam, squeezed all through it, then excess is squeezed out onto paper towels. It's easy to do.

I just got the Twin-Air filter cause it's all foam, it's meant to be tacked just like the green BRP foam filter, and it let's more air through. Also I'm going to get the richer program for the ecu, more gas from the efi's, cause I had a lot of stalling at high altitude last ride from extra air coming thru the filter, more stalling than before the Twin-Air filter.

 

see my outty 650 is too rich...like on the accelerator side, cant get it tuned out or do anything about it, well i guess i could buy a slip on.

 

A K&N or a Twin-Air? The Twin-Air should lean it out, it did mine, died at every stop above 11,000 feet, just annoying, cause it started right back up and ran good. Kind of like cold weather starts, have to start it 3 or 4 times now with the new filter, rather than just once or twice.

 

worse still on stock filter lightly oiled.

 

Maybe it would help answer the filter question if you rode it on asphalt, no dust, no filter?