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Re: oil bath air filters
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Posted by Nolan on July 10, 2002 at 03:53:52 from (209.48.190.220):
In Reply to: oil bath air filters posted by mike on July 10, 2002 at 00:01:07:
Oil bath filters do a fine job of filtering air. They were replaced with paper filters as paper filters got better able to filter air, and were a whole lot more convenient and less messy to maintain. That's why paper is #1 these days. I've never heard of an engine sucking the metal mesh out of an oil bath filter. Not to say it hasn't ever happened, but I'd worry about that possibility about as much as I'd worry about space aliens. Oil bath filters are not without their problems. On older machines it's probably well worthwhile to pull down the metal screen and clean it. Since the oil bath works by drawing the oil out of the bucket at the bottom and up onto the screen, dirt gets trapped up in the screen. Over those many years, you can get a heck of a big dirt clod built up at the top of the screen. Oil bath filters are also rather sensitive to the type of oil you use. They inherently are restrictive, and using the wrong weight of oil in them can make them much more restrictive, or render them essentially inefective by failing to get the oil up onto the screen.
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