Re: 54 Clipper Air filter

Posted by Don Shields On 2014/7/24 0:29:24

Hi Willis,
If what you have is a paper filter, it's an aftermarket latter day item meant for some other vehicle and modified to fit your Clipper. The 1954 Specifications show an oil MESH filter is standard equipment with an oil BATH filter as optional equipment. Checking the parts list, page 200 group 9.102, all the 54th series filters are described as oil BATH. So we have a nomenclature discrepancy, but it is clear that your car came with an oiled air filter.

It looks like you have a choice between finding a paper filter like what's on your car now or sourcing an original oiled filter from someone like David Moe in Seattle. Were I in your driver's seat, I'd try to get the optional oil bath unit that was standard on the Packard car line; I've read that they are actually superior to the paper filters used these days.