Ever see a filter like this?

[MG porting]

Why have I never seen this!

I've got one on my 064 they flow really good but don't get the super fines I put the spit back spung in mine just to help still flow's plenty well.

 

[jmester]

Of course:
LX 4255
Air filter element

• Mahle: 72459626
• Knecht: 72459625

@Wilhelm
Do you know a source for these mahle air filters on your side of the world. Did a few Google searches and did not come up with anything usable.

 

[keesje]

Do you know a source for these mahle air filters on your side of the world. Did a few Google searches and did not come up with anything usable.

I could probably get them. I found a supplier for them in Germany. Shipping from here to you would be around $ 20,-

 

[Deets066]

The part number for this green (summer) mesh filter is 0000-120-1653, but I guess they will be hard to find.
However, excellent reproduction filters of this type (with a foam inner piece) are available, just search on that part number and you'll find them.

They are a winter filter and commonly found on arctic saws

 

[Canadian farm boy]

 

[jmester]

That sounds cheaper than buying a hd2 from Stihl.

 

[jmester]

If I remember right Stihl used the metal top filter on a couple of saws many years ago. I am thinking 044 or maybe 084. Just don't quite remember where I saw them

 

[keesje]

They are a winter filter and commonly found on arctic saws

Yeah that's what I thought, but somehow they get called summer filters on sites like Chainsawr.

 

[keesje]

If I remember right Stihl used the metal top filter on a couple of saws many years ago. I am thinking 044 or maybe 084. Just don't quite remember where I saw them

STIHL went through a couple of designs for the HD filter stuff before they came up with the HD2, some of them indeed had stamped metal bodies. For applications like leafblowers they still do that. In fact, those are made by Knecht (Mahle) in Austria:

 

[jmester]

I could probably get them. I found a supplier for them in Germany. Shipping from here to you would be around $ 20,-

Does that include the filter or just shipping?

 

[keesje]

Here's an example of the HD filter by Karl Küfner GmbH in Germany. It was supposed to be oiled like K&N filters.
The company still supplies pickup filters to STIHL.


I am not sure who produces the current HD2 filter for STIHL, although I do know the filtering medium was specifically designed for them by SEFAR.

 

[keesje]

Does that include the filter or just shipping?

That's just shipping. The price for the filter depends a bit on how many I can order, because if I have to include the shipping to here for just one filter they get a bit pricey.

EDIT: just PM me and we can discuss things further if you want a couple.

 

[Wilhelm]

@Wilhelm
Do you know a source for these mahle air filters on your side of the world. Did a few Google searches and did not come up with anything usable.

I found one single result in Germany, I'd have to contact them and check availability, price and whether they'd ship to Croatia (or the USA).

In the attached catalog, page 8 under Stihl.

If You got it sorted with keesje, good.

 

[keesje]

If You got it sorted with keesje, good.

Yeah in the mean time I found another supplier, a car parts company with lower shipping costs than the German supplier and no minimum order amount (Germans asked € 50,- MOQ).

EDIT: Got a few HD2 filters too, unused. Came cheaper here than they were in the US so got myself a couple to help people out.

 

[MG porting]

They are a winter filter and commonly found on arctic saws

And they last for ever. As long as Godzilla don't get his mitts on it.

 

[Absolution]

I woke up this morning and said *f-word it. I bought a max flow and I'm going to dye it blue or black to match.

Edit: is this also now the cover for the "filter thread" ?

 

[Absolution]

Mmm a day of stumping. I wish I had left the filter stuck in cover for this picture and I also wish I hadnt wiped the filter base but there were no fines. Only some stuff where I took it off.

 

[Absolution]

So I got the max flow in today and oiled it with bel ray. I wish I had did it sooner. The saw is hitting 13,400 four stroking right off the bat with same tune of 12,900 with the old.

But now the idiot in me has to ask. Do I keep the spit back gaurd in place or remove it. With it the cap doesn't sit evenly. Without it the cap sets more flush.

 

[MG porting]

So I got the max flow in today and oiled it with bel ray. I wish I had did it sooner. The saw is hitting 13,400 four stroking right off the bat with same tune of 12,900 with the old.

But now the idiot in me has to ask. Do I keep the spit back gaurd in place or remove it. With it the cap doesn't sit evenly. Without it the cap sets more flush.

Leave the spit back cup out.

 

[Absolution]

Leave the spit back cup out.

Good then my judgment wasn't bad. I was just worried it was a clone thing.

Ill have to do a cutting update on my woods porting thread.