Right back to the same old story which is repeated a hundred times a year. These old Stovebolt’s have survived leaded gas, dirt and gravel roads, sitting out behind the barn or in a field for decades, being the subject to millions of young people learning to drive in them, having been driving by old broken down demented dirt farmers, over loaded and worked to death. They ran on five year old gas in their tanks, and old drain oil from the Farmall or what ever was setting around the garage at the time, many lost their air filter after the second winter and 95% of them never saw an oil filter and those that did very rarely had it changed because it was such a pain in the ars.
But somehow they survived it all for 50, 60 or 70 years just the way they came from the factory so why does everyone want to re-engineer these trucks?????
Properly restored an Advance Design Chevy truck is gonna outlast any one of us that post to this here forum!
Of course as Grandpa posted, "when it comes right down to it, just use what you want." after all, millions of people did before you and hundreds of thousands of the Stovebolt’s are still running.
But now that I’ve got that off my chest, to answer your original question Father Neptune, the only way to put a new air filter element in to the original “Oil Bath” style air filter is to hack it up which just leaves one less original “Oil Bath” air filter in the world and makes my original “Oil Bath” air filter worth that much more.
Or……. If you have the spark arrestor silencer type very often the original mesh is falling apart and the reproduction ones are somewhat expensive. Here you can use something like a Car Quest #87373 dry paper filter as a replacement for the mesh. This doesn’t destroy the original air filter housing and if you ever want to spend the cash and restore it using the original style wire mesh element you can.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Last edited by Denny Graham; 07/16/2011 12:24 PM.
