• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

K&N Airfilter?

K&N had a button on their website for requests. I wrote and asked whether they could advise on an application for the 630. Got no reply. But there was a previous thread here if I remember correctly (with pics). It was quite complicated, replacing the airbox.
 
Did the request thing on K&N and DNA's pages a year or so ago for the 449/511, got the standard reply of "we're always developing new products, keep checking back blah blah"

Basically a nicely worded palm off.
 
Seems like it would be crazy hard and expensive for K&N to manufacture a drop in filter for our bikes. The fact that only Twin Air makes a foam filter kinda confirms this. And foam is for both TE and SM, while K&N would really only be for SM's. Most bikes typically have about 5-6 choices for filter brands. We have one with OEM & Twin Air being the same.

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SilverBullet said:
Seems like it would be crazy hard and expensive for K&N to manufacture a drop in filter for our bikes. The fact that only Twin Air makes a foam filter kinda confirms this. And foam is for both TE and SM, while K&N would really only be for SM's. Most bikes typically have about 5-6 choices for filter brands. We have one with OEM & Twin Air being the same.

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Not true - Uni makes a very good twin foam replacement filter for the 610's. I have also seen another Italian freeflow brand filter - cannot remember name now. To fit K&N on a SM you need to use a cone filter and it is a tight fit - often requiring a little squashing/ moulding of the backside of the filter against the frame.
 
BiG DoM said:
I have also seen another Italian freeflow brand filter - cannot remember name now.
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Is it the Black Wind?
http://www.htmracing.it/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=66&lang=en
I've never tried it, but a chap on an Italian forum wrote that he tried it putting another filter behind it, to find out whether it allowed the dirt to pass or not.
He wrote that some dirt and even some little pebbles passed.
I read many things written by that chap and he seems to know what he talks about.
 
BiG DoM said:
Not true - Uni makes a very good twin foam replacement filter for the 610's. I have also seen another Italian freeflow brand filter - cannot remember name now. To fit K&N on a SM you need to use a cone filter and it is a tight fit - often requiring a little squashing/ moulding of the backside of the filter against the frame.
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Do you have the p/n? I have searched every online retailer here in the US that I know of and not a single match for the TE630. Actually none even show a match for the Twin Air filter either but I went on Twin Air's website and got their p/n (155506) and then plugged that in online and able to order it from BikeBandit.com for much less than any Husky dealer. Just checked Uni's website and cannot find a match for the TE630?

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BiG DoM said:
Mandolin was asking re the 610 - has the 630 the same filter?
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Yes it does. I bought a used SM610 filter on Ebay and it was identical to my stock filter. Twin Air lists the same p/n for 610 and 630, years 2006 and up. The filter frame was different on the 610 though but not the filter.

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SilverBullet said:
Yes it does. I bought a used SM610 filter on Ebay and it was identical to my stock filter. Twin Air lists the same p/n for 610 and 630, years 2006 and up. The filter frame was different on the 610 though but not the filter.

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I live and learn ... was put off by the frame looking different.
 
Kyle Tarry said:
Why run a K&N? The stock (twinair) foam jobber works fine.
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I'm in this camp also. I've just read too much about K&N (and like filters) being just too porous in effort to be as free flowing as possible. It's an inherent issue: freer flow = more particle ingress.
 
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