Hi All,
Lots of GXV160 threads in here, I suspect a lawn contractors around - home user myself have a Honda HUT216 utility with a GXV160 on it - currently having to muscle that around - but also trying to fix up a Masport 800ST that had a GXV160 with a factory fitted snorkel airfilter.
This was a 2nd hand unit, had 2 airfilters fitted both the normal GXV160 big filter and then also the long Victa airfilter in the snorkel. The HUT216 just had the single normal filter.
As I wasn't using the Masport I moved the airfilters (as it's all in one piece) over to the HUT216 and the single airfilter setup back to the Masport while its trying to be repaired.
1) Should I run both airfilters (the stock Honda one & the long Victa one) on the now snorkel fitted HUT216? Thats how the Masport came but who knows if they knew what they were doing.
2) Do I have to do anything to either carb before using them with the changed airfilter setup? If so what (roughly).
3) Or is using a snorkel airfilter for a utility mower little benefit and just switch back to how it was?
The Honda's stock filter seems leaps ahead in quality over the knockoff Victa one - but one might say the latter is drawing air from a better position. I've used the HUT216 with both filters attached and it doesn't seem to have any issues from it - RPMs seem about what they should be at stock governor levels.
Thanks in advance for thoughts.
