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Subject:Re: K&N filter revisited with Pictures
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:59:54 -0700

Malcolm,

Apparently, Photopoint is case specific.  To access your images, you must
enter stebbins@AUCEGYPT.EDU.  I took the liberty of looking at all of your
images.  The Coptic Monasteries are wonderful.  you must be having a heck of
a time.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stebbins" <stebbins@AUCEGYPT.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 11:08 AM
Subject: K&N filter revisited with Pictures

> Sorry to open this thread again, but we just finished a 2500
> km drive around Egypt's  "Desert Oasis Loop" and again we
> drove over a lot of sand and through sand storms etc. and my
> K&N filter is again very DIRTY.
>
> I took some pictures this time and they are at:
> http://www.photopoint.com/ .   Enter my email address (
> stebbins@aucegypt.edu ) in the upper right corner of the
> page, where it says VISIT ALBUMS  and the album is called
> "K&N Filter Pictures", click on the thumbnail size
> pictures,   Note that there is an option for each picture
> (down at the bottom right) to make the picture FULL SIZE.
> If you have the band width, you may want to do this for the
> detail.
>
> What I see here is a very dirty air filter, but the inside
> of the carb plate is fairly clean.  There is some bits of
> sand on the inside on the plates, but not dirty.  The top &
> bottom plates over & under the filter are very oily and if
> there was as much sand dust getting through the filter, I
> would assume that the the inside of the carb would be about
> as dirty, or at least show evidence of the sand dust getting
> in past the filter to coagulate on the oily parts of the top
> and bottom plates.
>
> I should also say that even with the dirty air  filter, the
> engine ran fine (we had other problems (coolant pipe burst)
> but that's another story (coming soon to a list serve near
> you :-))
>
> I look forward to hearing what you guys have to say after
> looking at the pictures.  Malcolm
>