Anyone have any tips on the best way to clean the factory air filter and what to use for air filter oil?

Also do I have to purchase the special pre-load wrench for the shocks or is there another way to make the adjustments?

thanks!



Ride On!

 

Some people use a pipe wrench or channel locks to adjust the shocks. I purchased a special wrench . I could not find a wrench sold by Yamaha that was made for the Kodiak. For some reason they made them different than other quads and never made a wrench that fits. The one I got was not even a shock adjusting wrench, but it works.

As for the "best" way to clean the air filter depends on your needs. You can buy the prepackaged spray cleaner and spray filter oil. Very easy and kind of expensive. You could clean it with gas and then soapy water, then rinse water and re-oil it with 30 wt. motor oil. I was told by a long time motorcycle rider to use the gas and soapy water and rinse water method and then put it in a zip lock bag with the motor oil. Just squeeze it for a while until all the water is squeezed out of the filter. Then squeeze out the excess oil.

 

Thanks for the tips, I'll try the channel locks, I've got a couple of rubber "booties" that slip over the jaws of the pliers. They should keep the scratches off.