Alan,
At 08:45 AM 03/04/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>Hi everyone,
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>Hope some of you can help me out. I was looking at my air cleaners for my
65 TR4 and they do appear to be dirty. I wanted to get some new ones but
all the catalogs list them at $35 or more. I don't want to spend $70 plus
on air filters so here are my questions:
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>1. Is there a way of cleaning the existing ones?
Not if they have paper filter elements.
>2. Is there a vendor that sells cheap replacements(I have the filter that
has two plates attached to either end and the hole in the center for the
valve cover venting tube).
I got Beck-Arnley air filters locally for my TR-4A, for $15 apiece. The car
has HS6 carbs, different filter than yours.
>3. Can my existing airfilters be separated from their plates without
doing damage so that I can possibly slip a larger Fram version for the TR6?
If you figure this out you have a potential home business. Rebuilt
air filters at less than $35 apiece, hmmm....
>4. How do I know that they really need replacing. They are dark but not
black and appear to be seeped with gasoline or oil(maybe from the valve
cover vent tube).
Probably discolored from the gas/oil fumes, as you suspect. I don't
know what this does to the filtering capability of the element. If it
were me I'd change them every other year or 10K miles.
Cliff Hansen
chansen@exis.net
1966 TR-4A CTC 64615L (Anxious to be done with front end work)
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