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mike paulson

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guy's i have a 300U and was wondering if anyone knows anything about replacing the oil bath air filter with a paper type filter setup, does anyone offer this in a kit or does anyone have a plan for a home made setup? thanks
 
You could use filter base Wix part # 24755
For the spin on filter
Wix part #
51050
51051
51320

You have another filter base that you could use but I would use the top one for your application

Wix filter base part #24762
Wix filter part# 51515
 

while this would probably work, the oil bath filter is a pretty effective setup, you can find ones cheap on the classifieds, you can just take them apart and clean them with solvent (I used brake cleaner) then refil with oil and put them back to work!
 
I see no advantage to that. Unless you are working it every day in extremely dusty conditions. If I ever buy a tractor that has been converted, I will change it back. I have read that in the early automotive days of dry filters the "heavy duty" option was an oil bath. But I saw a 340 utility with an small automotive type dry filter and housing in place of the precleaner above the oil bath part. I assume the oil bath still had oil in it. Kind of weird looking, but the combination should have been pretty effective.
 
hey Cowman, when you say filter base, what exactly is that? and the Wix number you gave me are those filter elements and will i have to fashion the plumbing my self to attach to the carb or will these numbers work with the existing oil bath housing somehow......thanks Mike P
 
Never mind miss read your post the numbers I gave you are for engine oil filters and bases you could use for your 300U. For the air filter I have no clue. I would stick with the oil bath.
 
(quoted from post at 13:26:39 08/07/10) I have read that in the early automotive days of dry filters the "heavy duty" option was an oil bath. But I saw a 340 utility with an small automotive type dry filter and housing in place of the precleaner above the oil bath part. I assume the oil bath still had oil in it. Kind of weird looking, but the combination should have been pretty effective.
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About the heavy duty part, I do have a comment to add. Oil bath filters will absorb very large quantities of dirt and sand particles and continue to work just fine with no restriction. This is why they are labeled heavy duty. Paper generally is better for filtering the real fine stuff, but on my crawlers having an inch of sand in the bottom of the oil cup is no big deal at all, while a paper element would have been long long dead in those circumstances. And having a precleaner on top and the oil bath below is very effective.
 
(quoted from post at 16:31:32 08/17/10)
(quoted from post at 13:26:39 08/07/10) I have read that in the early automotive days of dry filters the "heavy duty" option was an oil bath. But I saw a 340 utility with an small automotive type dry filter and housing in place of the precleaner above the oil bath part. I assume the oil bath still had oil in it. Kind of weird looking, but the combination should have been pretty effective.
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About the heavy duty part, I do have a comment to add. Oil bath filters will absorb very large quantities of dirt and sand particles and continue to work just fine with no restriction. This is why they are labeled heavy duty. Paper generally is better for filtering the real fine stuff, but on my crawlers having an inch of sand in the bottom of the oil cup is no big deal at all, while a paper element would have been long long dead in those circumstances. And having a precleaner on top and the oil bath below is very effective.
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Yeah, what M Diesel said. Cars with a heavy duty air cleaner option put an oil bath cleaner OUTBOARD of the paper filter. That way, the bulk of the dirt, including essentially all the larger particles would be cought by the oil bath. The paper filter was then able to catch the finer particles without immediately clogging. I think that putting a paper filter as a precleaner would not be an effective installation.

Adding the centrifugal pre-cleaners that were typical of tractor pre-cleaners keeps the oil bath from filling as quickly as it would otherwise.
 
Oops, when I put in precleaners being effective I was thinking the glass jar types on my old TDs. I haven't run a spinner, but have heard good about them.
 
The glass jar type is a centrifugal type cleaner. There are vanes on the bottom where the air enters so that the air is spinning around inside the dome where the dirt can get thrown outward and fall down into the jar.
 
True, but they are not the full on mechanical spinner with blades. Those are supposed to be even better from what I have been told. People with graders really seem to like them. Of course given the cost, my old machines will never see them :roll: Besides, they would look weird on an old IH.
 
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