Re: v8 Air Cleaner

Posted by Dave Brownell On 2015/11/7 11:07:55

I did my original oil bath, hiding under the dual inlet (GM-type) for the Rochester 4-bl a few weeks ago. I changed the oil but this time I paid closer attention of all that mesh to see what it prevented being swallowed by the 374. About all I could find were hundreds of now-translucent insect wings. There's no telling how long these have been there. The oil in the base was clean and new looking. After some reverse air-blasting and swishing around in old gas, I had to still do some picking around with tweezers to remove more insect wings that had still survived all this activity. Not that this would be consequential, but are these things the most durable things prevented by this ancient air cleaning system? It was almost like being an archeologist while pouring over this metal mesh. Painstaking work like this, where no one gets hurt, is sometimes the most satisfying of having an old Packard. Tossing a used old paper element filter doesn't compare.