I'm amazed at all of this discussion on oil vs paper filtering. Everything
I've heard about K&N's has been exemplary. I've been planning on calling Rick
to get one to replace my paper.
I've got a 1950 FarmAll Cub, a 1947 Farmall H, a 1951 Chevy 1/2 ton pickup, and
a 1952 Chevy 1 ton pickup, all of which use an "oil bath" filter where they
rely as much on air passing over a *bowl* of oil for filtering as anything else
for air filtering. All of these machines operate like new, on their original
engines about 50 years later. The 1 ton has about 250,000 miles on it. I
would suspect that since these machines have been around longer than I have,
their POs have replaced the oil in the bowls somewhat regularly, but they
certainly did not come to me that way.
Dealing with oil filters is messy, incongruous, and non-recurring revenue for
anybody but the oil company. I suspect that paper filters took over for other
than performance reasons, IMHO....
Chris Thompson
Executive Vice President
Recognition Research, Inc.
1750 Kraft Dr. Suite 2000
Blacksburg, VA 24060
540.961.6500
540.961.3568/fax
cthompson@rrinc.com
www.rrinc.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Sutter [SMTP:mjsutter@cts.com]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 8:37 PM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: defending K&N filters
> They never made it. The small paper filters inside the K&N would
> clog in 15 - 20 minutes. After several tries they discontinued the test.
>
> Steve W.
>
Steve and Listers,
I heard of similar instances happening in the off-road racing circles where
the first time K&N customer claimed the damn things didn't work at all. It
turned out the consumer didn't oil them before they installed them. K&N
used to supply their filters to the public un-oiled and it was up to the
consumer to ensure that the proper amount and type of oil was applied to
the filter surface. After a couple of situations like the one you described
above they decided it was necessary to pre-oil all the filter elements they
sold. I guess the HUGE oil before using stickers were ignored.
Mike
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