Chonda foam air filter use / maintenance?

[SC Maintenance]

My Chonda (WEN) generator has a piece of black closed cell foam for the air filter. All the manual says is clean it once in a while.

Should I do anything else - like spray it with filter oil? The carb is servo controlled (its a inverter generator) and I don't want to gum that up.

Thought about some sort of cloth pre filter - not sure if I can fit it.

Option C might be to retrofit the whole thing to a cellulose filter of some type?

Generator never gets used. I run it a few times a year on E0 and run the carb dry and drain the tank. Its on standby duty for the next hurricane.

 

[JTK]

I hear you. I've got a bunch of Chondas on various OPE and they've all got the generic black foam air filter elements. I leave them dry.

 

[The_Eric]

My Chonda (WEN) generator has a piece of black closed cell foam for the air filter. All the manual says is clean it once in a while.

Should I do anything else - like spray it with filter oil? The carb is servo controlled (its a inverter generator) and I don't want to gum that up.

Thought about some sort of cloth pre filter - not sure if I can fit it.

Option C might be to retrofit the whole thing to a cellulose filter of some type?

Generator never gets used. I run it a few times a year on E0 and run the carb dry and drain the tank. Its on standby duty for the next hurricane.

Unless you dip your filter in a bucket of oil, you won't gum your carb up. Use filter oil if you have it or engine oil if you don't.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Unless you dip your filter in a bucket of oil, you won't gum your carb up. Use filter oil if you have it or engine oil if you don't.

Thanks.

I have never used filter oil. I was thinking of getting the spray? How does washing it go - just like without the oil or does it cause issues with that?

 

[ripcord]

Wash with Dawn or other dish soap and warm water and allow to dry when dirty. I usually oil them with bar and chain oil.

 

[andyd]

I removed the filter element entirely because it is on a snowblower. I probably should find it and replace it dry. Now that Honda is out of the mower business, I wonder if we'll see a Chpnda vertical engine?

 

[SC Maintenance]

I wonder if we'll see a Chpnda vertical engine?

 

[Gyro Gearloose]

I removed the filter element entirely because it is on a snowblower. I probably should find it and replace it dry. Now that Honda is out of the mower business, I wonder if we'll see a Chpnda vertical engine?

I see a lot of pressure washers with Honda vertical shaft engines.

 

[The_Eric]

Thanks.

I have never used filter oil. I was thinking of getting the spray? How does washing it go - just like without the oil or does it cause issues with that?

I wouldn't spend extra money on filter oil in a spray can - I sincerely doubt that it will benefit you in any way that you can quantify. Engine oil works well and you already have more than enough to service the filter for the rest of either your or it's natural life.

 

[fantastic]

I wouldn't spend extra money on filter oil in a spray can - I sincerely doubt that it will benefit you in any way that you can quantify. Engine oil works well and you already have more than enough to service the filter for the rest of either your or it's natural life.

Agreed, although oiling is probably not necessary I'll add that dipping an air filter in motor oil and squeezing it out was in small engine manuals quite often back in the day. I don't see a problem especially being a simple foam filter. Heck it may help the foam last longer.

 

[fozzdesy2001]

I hear you. I've got a bunch of Chondas on various OPE and they've all got the generic black foam air filter elements. I leave them dry.

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