air filter search

[dave21478]

My tractor / mower needs a new air filter. Its basically just a cylindrical paper cartridge filter. The proper one? Sixty quid. Fuck right off.

 

So I am looking for anything that will fit, but its not an easy google search. I have found a few sites that let you search by dimension, but they always come up with examples for some really obscure type of digger only sold in Malaysia or something equally useless....so, I just need to find a cylindrical air filter that I can buy on ebay or in Le Halfords here that is between 180 and 240mm long, outside diameter between 80 and 90mm and inside diameter 50 to 60mm

 

Any clues?

 

 

[Guest Lord Sward]

Any part numbers?

[Barry Cade]

Looks like a filter for a Ligier Ambra would do the trick.... Mann C946/2

 

 

http://catalog.mann-filter.com/EU/eng/catalog/MANN-FILTER%20Katalog%20Europa/Air%20Filter/C%20946~2

 

 

http://www.mini-auto-parts.co.uk/ligier-air-filter/3-ligier-kussai-air-filter-2000000015958.html

[hairnet]

put the mann number into ebay it shows you the cheaper mahle one ( i do what you do for cylinder filters for bikes - car ones 1/3 the prices)

 

18 quid tho - cos of the height i think - maybe buy two 90mm high ones

 

the list i was getting was all komatsu and cat and vovlo diggers and that ligier

[Stanky]

Swap it out for a K&N panel filter m8. Just think how much extra power that will release. Also, million mile warranty, on a mower with no odometer...

 

On a serious note, could something be adapted from a car or motorbike with a similar diameter barrel? Or cobble together something even more naff from a bit of pipe of suitable diameter, a silicone hose elbow and one of those mushroom filters which are sometimes used for crankcase breathers - from ebay? Then replacement of the mushroom would be a matter of <£3 a time. You might even get away with just a mushroom filter if there is a tiny bit of space around it.

 

Something like this:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Auto-Silicone-Hoses-Single-Twin-Mushroom-Mini-Breather-Carbon-Airbox-Air-Filters-/291241415970?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item43cf575522

[dave21478]

Awesome, this gives me stuff to look into, thanks guys.

 

I considered fitting some kind of K&N cone type of deal, but there isnt a lot of room under the "bonnet" and it gets mega-dusty so have doubts about an oil-soaked type of filter being much use. The pipe into the inlet manifold is maybe 45mm, so a fair bit smaller than most universal filters, but the engine is a 3cyl diesel so I think the breather style filters would be too small and strangle it.

 

That one for the Ligier looks promising as I think it will go into the standard filter housing which has a basic dust separator before the main filter element.

[twosmoke300]

Destroy the paper then go to a local dirt bike shop and ask for a sheet of filter foam . Make it fit in/around the old metal frame . Glue with hot glue if reqd . Once made oil up with gear or engine oil

[hairnet]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Air-Filter-Foam-Fits-Kawasaki-TH43-11013-2084-/311149970240