TECH~simple oil bath to dry filter.

So what do you do when you can't put a normal paper filter on top of the carb in your 57 chevy wagon because of clearence issues?

Well you ask a friend for one of these and get to work!




Step 1: Grind the edge off where its folded over.

Step 2: drill out the welds or knock them loose. Be careful you might want to keep a piece or two intact for something later. You never know so dont destoy it getting it apart.



Step 3: get it gutted and cleaned up

Step 4: take cleaned top part to O'Rileys or your auto parts dealer of choice. I like O'Rileys cause they have not let me sown yet on the stuff I need for the 57 Chevy wagon. Tell them you need a filter to fit and they will let you go hog wild pulling out the filters and doing test fits. At least mine did. They also let me behind the counter to to find parts to plumb my carb.



This filter cost all of $3 so changing it regularly won't kill the pocketbook

Step 5: see if you can use origonal parts for the base so the air ****s right.



Step 6: Weld in brace and nut for all thread. (I have not done that yet) ***emble and run it!

 

Very nice work.
Bump for more to see.

 

Thanks. I got the idea from stuff that other people have done. But instead of putting a flat plate on the bottom for the airdam I decided to use the botton of the oilbath. When I get the cross brace and the nut for the allthread in it should hold nice with no air leaks around the edges. Amazing how that little filter fits perfect!

I also can use the bracket that supperted the weight of the housing (befire this mod) with just a little tweak.

When the whole thing is done I will get it sanded down and hit with some silver flake and turquoise pinstripes to match the direction of what I will eventually paint the longroof.

 

Dont you get one of the filters to fit inside of the oil bath canister? or will that change the air flow. I would like to hide the air filter. so you don't see it

 

Without venting is somehow you won't get good air going through it if you have a filter jammed inside unless its a solid filter(not the typical circular style). That and the pieces on the inside get in the way. You would have to do alot of cutting to keep everything as stock with a dry filter.

The filter I found sits up inside and doesn't show when installed.

 

This must be an inline six powered '57. That's going to be very slick. I love OE aircleaners. I've got a '54 Merc housing sitting on top of a 327 at home that I might have to pull apart when it warms up.

 

this is one i did on this 34 pick up,,(hard to see in pic,but)using a 55 nailhead aircleaner.

 

That looks just right on that truck!

 

Yep its on a 235 I-6

 

I guess that this was a week early. Bump for tech week.

 

And here it is finished. I have had it on the I-6 a couple of weeks but finally got a picture. With a rebuilt carter and this air cleaner it's running pretty good. Now I just need to get the float in the tank fixed so it doesn't run out of gas again when I am running it around the block (country block= about a mile) to test things.

Ya can't tell from looking that its got a paper filter.

I did need to kick it out a bit and make a new bracket off of the generator bracket.

 

Looks good Cody.
when are you bringing it up to the city?
r

 

Oooh. I may try that with mine. Thanks for the tech, Cody.

Tucker

 

It goes pretty quick! I only have about 2.5 hours tied up in making, painting and installing. I stole a couple of minutes here and there for a couple of weeks. It breathes alot better than the small carb topper that was on it.