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wow I ran into that same mountain, or at least a big ass rock on the side of the road by that same mountain! Riding through Gila on 152. I also need the right hand cowl! lol

I threw the box away and the actual filter is unlabeled as was the old one. I will go there tomorrow and ask the clerk which one it was, and then post it. BTW, Honda uses that same filter in a lot of different applications, i.e. lawn/construction equipment, trucks, generators, etc. but it subcontracts other companies to make it as well, therfore no honda name, no honda price! now, if i can only find a fuel pressure regulator in the next 3 days....not a lot of those hanging around. anybody have any ideas?

I'll argue than one with you... as I'm more inclined to believe it does not need to be done, except for under some extreme cercimstance of foul neglect, or by some extreme misfortune at a very old service station. And I'll add... the first part of that Foul neglect is if the owner of such a vehicle continues to leave his unit parked or in storage without a full tank of petrolium. This leads to a void of space that has been replaced be atmospheric particles so of which are Hydrogen and some Oxygene. Said particle then collect and connect to the inner bare metal walls and can form IronOxide particles. Am I makeing sence so far....... Or if some sorry sap pulled into an old station and proceeded to fill Ones vehicle, useing a pump that has had the inline filter punched out due toe cost saveing measures, while said tanker was stirring up all of the shit. Or.... Maybe if said vehicle was tamperd with....... vandalism. But other than that No. which is EXACTLY what happened to me. I pulled apart my fuel system to find debris and mud-looking gas in my filter and regulator. Kind of a dumb idea, but I went to the local car part store and browsed through all the inline filters and found one identical to the on in the bird and it was like $14. Just got through riding about 140 miles...really hard might i add, and it works fine so far! But I'm still waiting on OEM stuff though!