The plan this morning had been to get a regular "paper" filter for Natasha, vice the K&N Oiled Filter that she came with. The object was two-fold: Find a viable and cheap alternative to see if it worked fine for her and try it out as a permanent solution instead of using the K&N filter. It's very easy, you see, to over-oil the sucker when doing servicing and it affects the Ural's performance tremendously!
The Uralisti keep a couple of sites listing alternative part numbers to the stuff available from Ural dealers. One of these was for a NAPA air filter #702204. I picked one up at the nearest NAPA auto parts dealer, stuck it in place of the K&N filter and went for a short ride along the prairies bordering Quincy Road.
The new air filter worked just fine, Natasha seemed as peppy as ever.....well, as peppy as 40 horses can be anyways. : ) The cost? $7.29, can't beat that with a stick! I think I'll order a "spare" to carry along in the trunk if it works out over the next few weeks.
Here's some views of what I could see while on the test ride:
Looking west on Quincy Road, that's Mount Evans in the distance
A wider view of the Front Range
Hay Rolls, see below for why to took this shot
2 comments:
The first of those pictures immediately brought to mind that evil sequence toward the end of the Morgan Freeman / Brad Pitt movie "Se7en"... but lovely photography all the same!
Good choice on the paper filters, by the way. They are not only cheaper and less labour-intensive, but also have been proven to do a better job of filtering the airstream than oiled-foam filters.
Peppy? compared to what? Bulldozer? I think my neighbor's snowblower is about as powerful ( but probably due to more modern technology ).
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