Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinya Yoshidome

Michio Hirano

Tetsuaki Shirai

An air cleaner for an internal combustion engine facilitates is made compact and maintenance work for cleaning or replacing the cleaner element of the same. An air cleaner case ( ) holding a cleaner element ( ) is a three-part structure essentially consisting of a body ( ) having opposite open ends and provided with an air inlet ( ), a bottom wall ( ) detachably joined to one of the opposite open ends of the body ( ) and connected to the air intake passage of the carburetor ( ), and a cover ( ) detachably joined to the other open end of the body ( ). The bottom wall ( ), the body ( ) and the cover ( ) are fastened together by a stud bolt ( ) and a fastening nut ( ). The cover ( ) has a concave part ( ) defining a space for receiving the fastening nut ( ) and provided with drain holes ( ). When the air cleaner ( ) is disposed above the carburetor ( ), the drain holes ( ) are positioned right above the fuel flow adjusting screws ( ) of the carburetor ( ). A screw operating tool inserted from above the cover ( ) in each of the drain holes is able to reach each of the fuel flow adjusting screw ( ).

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Shinya Yoshidome