Re: Now that's odd...

Posted by kens53clip On 2009/7/12 15:42:57

Rock,
Looks like you have an air filter, albeit a modern one. As long as you replace it when it gets dirty, you should be OK for awhile until you can get a good deal on original equipment. My 53 Packard Clipper is a bit later but it is probably similar to yours as it came with two types of air filter. The standard was a wire mesh filter which you were supposed to keep wet with oil. The optional air filter was the oil bath unit. Everything I have read on these types of filters say that the wire mesh type was better than nothing but not very good, perhaps in part because people did not keep it oiled religiously. The oil bath kind was better than the wire mesh filter at keeping out impurities. So I would get the oil bath filter if you can. Currently, I have the wire mesh filter in my Packard but eventually I hope to get the oil bath filter.
Ken Dunning
kens53clip