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tealboy
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Jul 02, 2020

Foam air filter disintegrating, clogging carb, alternatives?

I have an older yamaha ef2800i generator that I keep in storage for power outages and a couple years ago, it ran very poorly. I discovered the foam filter disintegrated and tiny particularly fed into...
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Lynnmor
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Jul 03, 2020
tealboy wrote:
Lynnmor wrote:
Could you just buy foam air filter material and cut your own?


I like this idea and ordered one, cancelled the yamaha oem filter I had on order, in part, bc the custom one will arrive sooner but also bc the quality of the oem is sub par from my experience


Great! I have foam filters that are 30 years old working well and some that needed replaced in just a few years. My opinion is that the quality of the foam varies greatly by manufacturer.

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