Speaking of oily coarse steel wool oil filters. That is what I am currently
running on my TR3. Only other option I have seen is K&N. Are the originals
that bad? I guess that is what the car run for the first 75,000 miles of
it's life before I got it. Any suggestions of what else to get or where to
get it?
Thanks,
Jeremiah
-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Alan Myers
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:39 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] K&N Filters
At the very least, K&N have got to be one heck of a lot better than the
reusable, "oily coarse steel wool" filters that came stock on a '60s era VW
bug I had, and for that matter I think might have been original on my TR4
(by
the time I bought it, it had disintegrating foam filters on Hitachi SU/240Z
carbs).
No filter that allows air to flow reasonably freely is ever going to stop
the
smallest micro-particles completely.
I'll keep using K&N... My TR4 - when it's running - is a fair weather car,
anyway. The K&N in my Land Rover for the past 60,000 miles has managed to
not
disintegrated through all kinds of rain, snow and slop. But I frankly don't
know that it's ever gotten particularly wet, since it's housed inside a
pretty
well weather sealed box.
But, paper filters are darned easy, too. Just pop in a new one every so
often... and send the old one off to the land fill (today is Earth Day,
after
all).
Alan Myers
San Jose, California
amfoto1@aol.com
'62 TR4 CT17602L
http://www.triumphowners.com/640
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