In a message dated 4/21/00 5:16:24 PM, BristolBul@aol.com writes:
<< my recently acquired '61 plus 4 has an archaic steel gauze air cleaner
feeding into a tapered manifold feeding into the SU's
i seem to remember having filters like this on some old MG's but i can hardly
remember
was this type of air cleaner intended to be bathed in oil and drained in
order to more or less act as a filter in the old days?
>>
I have an air filter like this on my '72 Citroen DS. Every 6,000 miles I
swish it around in kerosene or mineral spirit (gasoline also works, but too
dangerous), drain it, soak it in clean crankcase oil, let it drain, and
reinstall it-seems to work fine-no grit in the carb throat. Dave Collins, San
Diego.
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