How to (and what size) will fit in the oil bath housing?

[reamer]

Can I get rid of the mess of the oil bath cleaner, yet install a Paper air filter inside the stock oil bath housing?
What size (odel number) paper element will seal well in there?
Any "mods" to the housing?
Thanks
Reamer

[havi]

I thought of doing something like this as well, whenever I get my flathead together. My first thought along this line is something like what I bought from P.A.W. for a dual carb set-up, only double stack (if 2 will fit). Here's a quick pic: http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/70...uestion-2.html

[cars2cool]

Your in luck, I've been there and done that. It's fairly easy to do with the right tools. My buddy at the exhaust shop torched the metal off that holds the "horse hair" in place in the top half of the housing. It was smokey and very smelly. Let it cool off and take a good sized pair of pliers or channel locks and grab the remaining metal band pull it from under the lip of the top. Instead of a torch a grinder with a cut off wheel would of worked also. Then we did some measuring, actually did a lot of measuring. And we had a K&N application catalog at our disposal, find the section that breaks them down by dimension and order the part number given. I'll look at the number I came up with for my '55 F100, and post another reply. Good Luck!

[reamer]

That will be great!
Waiting for a part Number. Mine's a '48. I hope the cleaner is the same size
Reamer

[dmptrkr]

http://www.ford-trucks.com/article/i...r_element.html

[panningbros]

Go to a NAPA of other auto supply store & see if you can get a catalog for whatever line of filters they sell. They usually have a very good dimension section in the catalog for various sizes and shapes. Look in the farm tractor & industrial sections. There is about every shape & size filter you can imagine. We have done several of these for early farm tractors with oil baths. If you know the measurements of your can you should be able to find something.

[cars2cool]

The K&N filter I used in my '55 F100 V-8 type oil bath air cleaner is part number E4690. I wasn't concerned about being able to see the filter through the slots of the bottom half of the housing. And this was the right height that allowed me to use the existing threads and wing nut. The engine gets plenty of clean air now, or I could flip the lid over and allow even more air into the filter. Good luck!