Dave
I believe the drill is you wash the gauze filter in slovent and wet it down
with a heavy weight oil and allow the excess to dirp off before replacing.
I use a paper element ( 6 inch i believe) in place of the oil and gauze.
Bob Nogueira
-----Original Message-----
From: BristolBul@aol.com <BristolBul@aol.com>
To: morgans@autox.team.net <morgans@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 7:16 PM
Subject: air cleaner
>morgan advisors:
>
>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've heard of machining off the intake manifold to make room for a pair of
>paper air filters but i'm not ready for that yet
>
>dave chappell
>
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