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Old Mar 27, 2006 | 06:46 PM
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Put a new K&N Air Filter in last night and noticed that the old one had several burn holes in it?

'06 Street Glide...bought it 2-24-06 and have 2900 miles as of yesterday.

Anybody have similar problems?

Had the new bulletin injector mod and 06A MAP installed at 2100 miles.

Some of you may want to look at you air cleaners...maybe I'm just an isolated case.
 
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Old Mar 27, 2006 | 06:53 PM
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This should get interesting? Any photos of the old air cleaner? I juat had the new injectors put in 400 miles ago. Installed my new pipes and the HD Stage one AC.

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Old Mar 27, 2006 | 07:05 PM
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Are they burn holes for sure or just element disintegrating? Did you notice fire shooting out your breather (cool)? What kind of filter? How about a picture?
 
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Old Mar 27, 2006 | 07:52 PM
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Are they burn holes for sure
Yep they are burn hole's I can almost garantee that it is the blue paper piece of **** from HD. If your EFI cough's back through your throttle body your AC is shot if it is the paper one. You are not an isolated deal my filter on the SG did it also. I put a K&N on the SG before I got rid of it. I have a K&N on the RKC also, they wont burn.
 
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Old Mar 27, 2006 | 08:37 PM
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Old Mar 27, 2006 | 09:22 PM
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Here are the pic's...it's hard but up close you can see where the media has been burned.

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Old Mar 28, 2006 | 12:29 AM
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Had me curious, pulled mine off tonight, to inspect, and its as clean as a new one..........What setup are you running?? SE A/C, SE slipons and SERT, here, looks like new, with about 900 miles on the filter.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2006 | 01:33 AM
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Had me curious, pulled mine off tonight, to inspect, and its as clean as a new one..........What setup are you running?? SE A/C, SE slipons and SERT, here, looks like new, with about 900 miles on the filter.
That is a stock AC set up he has there.

 
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ORIGINAL: fryeca

Put a new K&N Air Filter in last night and noticed that the old one had several burn holes in it?

'06 Street Glide...bought it 2-24-06 and have 2900 miles as of yesterday.

Anybody have similar problems?

Had the new bulletin injector mod and 06A MAP installed at 2100 miles.

Some of you may want to look at you air cleaners...maybe I'm just an isolated case.
This happens from engine being out of tune, aka, "Backfiring". Not un-common.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2006 | 11:29 AM
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That is scary looking. What does a K&N look like if it has seen backfire? Does the foam melt?
 
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