I disassembled my air cleaner the past weekend as a part of my "renewal" effort. Looking at the exploded view in the manual, it seems that there is no way to access or replace the filter element in the canister. It says to flush it with kerosene. Is there indeed a way to access and replace the filter element? I can't see how flushing it is going to clean it very well, and I'd imagine 60 years worth of accumuluated crud impedes breathing some. Any suggestons would be much appreciated.
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Red Dave
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There is no easy, practical way to replace the filter element, nor is there a reason to do so.
Fill a 5 gallon bucket about 2/3 full of kerosene.
Put the air cleaner in it and let it soak for a day or two.
Work the air cleaner around swishing it up and down as much as you can.
Hang it up to drip dry for a couple days.
Your air cleaner will be as good as new.
Fill a 5 gallon bucket about 2/3 full of kerosene.
Put the air cleaner in it and let it soak for a day or two.
Work the air cleaner around swishing it up and down as much as you can.
Hang it up to drip dry for a couple days.
Your air cleaner will be as good as new.
That is what this board is for, different opinions. I disassemble air cleaner, no easy job but only way to clean them. You can pull them behind the Queen Mary all the way to England and they will still have straw and crud that will never come out. I drill the spot welds and then resolder them. Trick is to get the elements to fit inner and outer edge nice and snug so no channel on edges. Some older air cleaners have layers of different size mesh screen but all later ones have a rolled up mesh about 40 feet long. One thing I never do is tell some one what to do with his equipment, I tell them what I do and they can decide.
Anonymous-0
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To clean it do like Red Dave should clean it nice. If your having problems with getting straw or large items in it put a precleaner on it and it will stop large items into air cleaner.
Unless you're a skilled fabricator or know someone who is, disassembling the air cleaner via pete 23's method will yield you a piece of junk.
The design of the air cleaner (NOT "filter") is such that large items like straw shouldn't even get close to the mesh.
First off the straw has to get in through the mesh on the mushroom cap. That greatly limits the size of the particles that can enter.
Second off, the air goes down the tube in the center of the cleaner, where it has to make a 180 degree turn through the oil bath. Any large particles can't make the turn, and get stuck in the oil.
By the time the air gets to the oil-soaked mesh, only the real fine dust is left. Much of that gets stuck in the oil that's on the mesh.
If you're getting STRAW up in the oil-soaked mesh inside the air cleaner body, you're doing something very very wrong.
The design of the air cleaner (NOT "filter") is such that large items like straw shouldn't even get close to the mesh.
First off the straw has to get in through the mesh on the mushroom cap. That greatly limits the size of the particles that can enter.
Second off, the air goes down the tube in the center of the cleaner, where it has to make a 180 degree turn through the oil bath. Any large particles can't make the turn, and get stuck in the oil.
By the time the air gets to the oil-soaked mesh, only the real fine dust is left. Much of that gets stuck in the oil that's on the mesh.
If you're getting STRAW up in the oil-soaked mesh inside the air cleaner body, you're doing something very very wrong.
rustyfarmall
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ANY Farmall that ever did duty under a mounted corn picker WILL have corn chaff, shucks, and assorted other foriegn material IN the mesh of the oil bath air filter. That is a proven fact. The air cleaner did its job and stopped the junk before it could get into the engine.
It is not difficult to take an air cleaner apart, but it does require a bit of skill and patience if you desire to put it back together again.
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