[Healeys] Clean BJ8 air cleaner

[T W]

Thanks to everyone for your advice.   What I really need is a
British-American dictionary.   :-)   Both the owner's manual and
Haynes say to wash it in paraffin,  and I thought they meant something
akin to candle wax.

- Tom


On 7/16/07, sbyers at ec.rr.com <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi, Tom -
> I soak and rinse my air cleaners in kerosene (the British call it paraffin, I believe), drain overnight or longer unless I'm in a hurry, then blow them out with compressed air from back to front.  Then I soak the wire mesh elements in engine oil by pouring it onto the front and rear faces and turning the canister all around to ensure it gets distributed completely.  Then, I drain the oil by leaving the cleaners face down on paper towels placed in the bottom of my oil-draining container.  Finally, a wipedown with a degreaser on the exterior of the canisters, and they go back on the carbs.
>
> I'm sure there are other better filters that could be used, but I have used my originals for 23 years and about 80,000 miles with no problems that I could attribute to a lack of filtration on the carbs.  There are many things on a Healey that you would just bet wouldn't work well, such as the air cleaners, but then they have for lo these many years.
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC  USA