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randy berger wrote:
Actually oil bath air cleaners keep the oil very clean. Much better than pleated paper filters. But it is much easier to swap out a paper filter than to clean the sludge trapped in the bottom of an oil bath air cleaner.
And many people don't swap out the paper filter till the engine quits running because of lack of air. The majority of people are just too dumb or lazy to do this.
Randy, I didn't mean to imply that the oil bath air cleaners did not do a good job, I was just wondering if their use was some incentive for Packard to consider a "partial flow" oil filtering system adequate, after having had "full flow" systems in previous engines... it's just speculation and barely if at all OT, but I get frustrated with V8 Packards now and then because of this engineering "regression" from full to partial flow (was partial any cheaper? I don't know). What about the vacuum wipers. They would seem to have been much more expensive due to the new vacuum pump location on the oil pump-- all that fuss instead of just going electric?
These are real puzzling questions to me.
Back OT sort of:
Jim, thanks for mentioning the NAPA filter. I have often found that NAPA apparently believes every car automobile from 1903 on deserves to have parts in stock or available on order from them. They are often the only source I have found for what you'd think would be pretty readily available older parts.
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