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Post by Oatking on Apr 10, 2023 7:07:15 GMT -6
This is the first year I have tried this service. There is a company in Winnipeg called Clean Air and they specialize in recleaning your used air filters. I decided to give it a try since most of the time my truck and tractor outer air filters look fairly clean and the cost of these newer air filters is a rip off it seems. This company cleans the filter and tests them for damage. Its a savings of at least half off a new filter. Dont do inner filters.
Have any of you guys used this service and do you think its worth the savings and risk?
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Apr 10, 2023 7:24:16 GMT -6
Plumas filter service has been doing this for years, they have a bunch of pickup locations around the area as well so you don't have to drive to Plumas.
Basically same deal, about half price of new, I think.
One spring they cleaned some truck filters and said they were shot because they had sucked up poplar floaty seeds and they had perforated the filter and they were ruined, I was surprised they would catch that.
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Post by Beerwiser on Apr 10, 2023 7:31:10 GMT -6
I haven't seen anyone in my neck of the woods doing it. I would definitely give it a shot though and sort of surprised on the popular fuzz too.
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Post by kevlar on Apr 10, 2023 7:47:41 GMT -6
We’ve got a few cleaned in Plumas in the past, at that time it wasn’t much of a savings but now might be more worth looking into. At that time I didn’t think the risk of getting it cleaned was worth the cost of a new filter, but now when filters for a piece of equipment for the season run in the thousands $$$$ it’s looking like an alternative.
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Post by Oatking on Apr 10, 2023 9:33:52 GMT -6
On my new to me 9520r jd I was startled at the cost of engine air filters. There are two suit case filters and 2 plastic egg shaped filter at the front of the filter housing. All four to replace new are around 650 dollars. Just the engine air filters for tractor.! I put 400 hrs a year on my four wheel drive. I should have done my two combines air filter but didnt learn of this place until 2 weeks ago.
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Post by northernfarmer on Apr 10, 2023 9:53:04 GMT -6
I've never looked into that around here as per a filter cleaning service, be it good or bad I do blow out primary filters ( if it has the secondary filter ) of the traditional style and have now tapped and blown out the primary filter in the JD 9430 as they too are a stupid expensive filter and they claim they are not supposed to be cleaned. Not that I clean it often but a couple of times before I replace it and then replace the secondary filter if I have any doubts at all. As to highway tractors, I personally would never even get those cleaned nor do I blow them out as there is no safety filter on the Petes and both of mine have the two filter housings so I just replace and its not very often they need replacing since I drive slower on the gravel and are not often following a cloud of someones dust.
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Post by carlos on Apr 10, 2023 15:45:04 GMT -6
Do it all the time. Swift Filtration in saskatoon. They do them 3 times then that is it , unless they see damage then they won't do them at all. When you own a new Holland combine, you need a few filters on hand!!!
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Post by bob123 on Apr 10, 2023 16:14:13 GMT -6
fleet guard filters through a truck dealer are so much cheaper i think it would be hard to bother getting them cleaned. about 50% of buying fleet guard at rme and 30% of official cnh filters
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