I have an Oil Bath Air Cleaner. What is the best way to clean it? I read somewhere that kerosene works well. Do I just get a big bucket and soak it in the kerosene?


Time to drain the old oil


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Most of a missing sticker

 

Or convert it to a paper filter element . Very easy & way less messy .

 

You can dump the old oil from the base and wipe it clean with a kerosene soaked rag. The filter part with the maze will have to be submerged in kerosene or other solvent and agitated until it drains clean, then allowed to dry before reinstalling. I personally have gutted the top filter and installed a replaceable paper element. You can't tell the difference from looking at it. Here's the how-to-do-it link.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...r-cleaner.html

 

Yes, kerosene would work.

your sticker looks better than the one on my 55 F350. But your air cleaner is different. They do reproduce the stickers but they are listed for 48-52 trucks.

 

Convert it to paper and don't look back!!! Very easy to do and still looks like a functioning oil bath.

 

Here is a picture of the reproduction label on my 54.

 

 

See my post #3. There is a link to the well documented instructions.

 

 

Purely hypothetical question that A friend wants me to ask y'all. Once I soak the top part in Kerosene what should I do with the open bucket of Kerosene? Also do I just let the Kerosene soaked part sit there and air dry? You know, hypothetically ...

 

Your "friend" can use compressed air to dry out the kerosene from the element. Or let it air dry.

You could take the old kerosene to the place your friend takes his old motor oil.

Or soak a roll of toilet paper in the kerosene, put it on a stick and light it. It will burn for 30 to 45 minutes! What fun!