[ti]pulling your hair out[/ti]Amateurs!

I can appreciate a good bodge, especially if it saves a few bob & shows a bit of ingenuity, but I couldn't believe the trouble someone had gone to with a bodge I found when replacing the air filter on Gill's GB250. The filter is a canister type, which pushes up into the intake rubber & is held in place by a spring clip, item 5.



In this case, the clip was lying loose in the airbox, and I couldn't pull out the canister which was stuck by a metal angle bracket bolted in with  6 stainless screws, washers & nuts - oh, and it was glued to the airbox base too.





Once I'd removed all the screws, I was able to get the canister out a see the reason for the bodge -



the foam seal at the top of the filter was missing, so the filter was slightly short & the clip wasn't able to secure it - the metal bracket held it up in place. Would have been easier to glue a suitable bit of foam or rubber to the filter, bend the clip up a bit, or maybe even buy a new filter. Even a bit of rag stuffed under the filter would be more practical, but no, let's spend half an hour drilling holes

Anyway, once I'd filled the holes, the new filter fitted snugly, held in by it's clip