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| | | | Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 253 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 253 | Worse yet is all the excellerated wear to the engine from an empty air cleaner letting all that dirt and grit into the motor!
1945 Chevrolet G 506 1.5 Ton Military 4X4
1967 Jeep Cj5 with 283 SBC
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,845 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,845 | er.. sorry but the oil level was full. Pics taken after I emptied it. I just wanted to show the amount of sludge.
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 | It's pretty incredible isn't it? I've always thought that they do a great job. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 899 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 899 | I eliminated the mess and started using a paper filter in my oil bath like yours a couple years ago. Not stock but a lot easier to change!
Ed
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 355 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 355 | i plan on using my old oil bath cleaner with modern upgrade going to get a 4 barrel small air cleaner, and weld it to the under/inside of the original oil bath and use it on my V-8 lol i wanna keep something from the original under the hood
and everyone just goes and buys a generic chrome cleaner thought original equipment repurposed would be a nice touch
1937 1/2 ton
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 | :thumbs_up Daniel. I was wandering around the salvage yard last fall and found an old original 4 barrel oil bath. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,845 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,845 |
Craig My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 396 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 396 | That does not look like an excessive amount of dust/ dirt in an oil bath air cleaner. We usually run our John Deere gas and diesel tractor engines 100 hours between Oil, Grease and Filter. We also clean the Oil Baths at that time. They sometimes have a pretty deep accumilation of fine dirt particles depending on the field conditions we have been operating them in. Yours looks like the Optional Oil bath filter of at least 1947 thru 1952.
Jerry
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