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Servicing Air Cleaner

With motorcycle in normal use on hard-surfaced roacłs, clean and refill air cleaner oil cup at least each time engine oil tank is drained and refilled. Service morę freąuently imder dusty conditions; daily under extremely dusty conditions.

To service round type cleaner:

Loosen oil cup clamp band thumb screw, remove oil cup and baffle, thoroughly wash and clean oil cup and baffle and refill oil cup to indicated oil level with same grade of new oil used in engine.

In reassembling, observe that oil cup gasket is in place and be surę oil cup and baffle are properly seated against gasket and secured to cleaner hous-ing. Careless assembly is likely to result in an oil and air leak between cup and cleaner housing and possibly a lost cup.

Ocćasionally, at time of servicing oil cup, complete cleaner should be removed from motorcycle and im-mersed for a time in a bucket of gasoline or kerosene (or available solvent). Cleaner element, which can-not be removed from housing, must be thoroughly flushed to wash out accumulated dirt. After flushing dry thoroughly (use an air hose if available) and apply a few sąuirts of engine oil to inside of cleaner element, using oil can.

To service rectangular type cleaner:.

Release oil cup retaining elips and remove oil cup. Thoroughly wash and clean oil cup, refill to indicated oil level and re-install.

In reassembling, observe that oil cup gasket is in place and that oil cup retainer elips are fully en-gaged in lip of cup and hołd oil cup securely to body.

Occasionally, at time of servicing oil cup, unscrew baffle piąte thumb screw and remove baffle piąte. The two filtc elements are then free to be removed from bottom of air cleaner.

Thoroughly flush filter elements in gasoline or kerosene (or avaliable solvent) to wash out accumulated dirt. Allow units to dry out (use an air hose if available) and with an oil can, apply a few sąuirts of engine oil to each filter element.

NOTĘ: Observe instructions on air cleaner body.

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RECTANGULAR TYPE AIR CLEANER. DISASSEMBLED

1. * Air cleaner body.

2.    Oil cup retaining elips.

3.    Filter elements.

4.    Baffle piąte.

5.    Oil cup.

2    3

1.    Air cleaner back piąte.

2.    Air cleaner mesh with support.

3.    Air cleaner cover.

4.    Air cleaner mounting screw lock.

5.    Air cleaner mounting screws.

Mesh Pack Type Cleaner

In normal service on hard surface roads, it is im-portant that the air cleaner metal mesh be removed, washed thoroughly in gasoline or kerosene (or sol-vent), and then saturated with same grade of new oil as used in engine at least once every 1000 miles. In dusty service this attention should be given morę freąuently and in extremely dusty service every 100 miles or at least once a day.

To remove air cleaner cover, press inward and turn counter-clockwise. After mesh pack has been cleaned in gasoline or kerosene (or solvent), dip it in engine oil and allow excess oil to drain off, then reassemble and attach mesh pack assembly and cover by reversing removal operations. Cover must be attached with drain hole at bottom.

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