Air filter pre cleaners?

So I purchased an Enginaire precleaner of the proper size for that Cummins 8.3. I had one of their precleaners on an ASV Positrac years ago - warrantied the precleaner for life and they were always good on that guarantee. However, after knowing the performance of the Turbo III, the Enginaire unit was worse than disappointing in performance. I did check to make sure it was working and spinning, and it was, but I was having to clean my filters in what I considered "clean" conditions.

So, as much as it hurt, I shelled out nearly $500 for another Turbo III of the proper 7" inlet size. This one now has a leash attached to it so that if it gets knocked off, it stays on top of the engine compartment. This one does not seam to work quite as well as the original one I had but then the original had nearly 1/4-1/3 of the intake bars missing and covered with hardware cloth over the missing section. That might have increase my air velocity enough to make that blade spin faster and knock out more debris. Tough to take a saw to that $500 chuck-o-plastic just to try it.

I've also got a Centri metal unit on another machine that is a total dust mother. Sometimes I have to stop twice a day from air filter alarms going off so that precleaner is not my first choice either. Whatever you chose, precleaners will extend your air filter run time.

You should also check into an Air Filter Blaster if you are going to be working a lot of dust

. The tips are a little bit fragile but the unit is worth the cost. It's not uncommon for me to stretch an air filter's life well over 1,000 hrs in the dusty environments that I run in. There is no way I could do that without the AFB.

I had a great, half broken Turbo III precleaner on my tracked mulcher. Rarely had to clean the air filter unless things got really dry and dusty. Last I saw of it was a small piece of black plastic after it went through the mulcher on a backwards pass. I was working steep ground and a limb knocked it off. That had happened several times before but I always saw it in time.So I purchased an Enginaire precleaner of the proper size for that Cummins 8.3. I had one of their precleaners on an ASV Positrac years ago - warrantied the precleaner for life and they were always good on that guarantee. However, after knowing the performance of the Turbo III, the Enginaire unit was worse than disappointing in performance. I did check to make sure it was working and spinning, and it was, but I was having to clean my filters in what I considered "clean" conditions.So, as much as it hurt, I shelled out nearly $500 for another Turbo III of the proper 7" inlet size. This one now has a leash attached to it so that if it gets knocked off, it stays on top of the engine compartment. This one does not seam to work quite as well as the original one I had but then the original had nearly 1/4-1/3 of the intake bars missing and covered with hardware cloth over the missing section. That might have increase my air velocity enough to make that blade spin faster and knock out more debris. Tough to take a saw to that $500 chuck-o-plastic just to try it.I've also got a Centri metal unit on another machine that is a total dust mother. Sometimes I have to stop twice a day from air filter alarms going off so that precleaner is not my first choice either. Whatever you chose, precleaners will extend your air filter run time.. The tips are a little bit fragile but the unit is worth the cost. It's not uncommon for me to stretch an air filter's life well over 1,000 hrs in the dusty environments that I run in. There is no way I could do that without the AFB.