[TR] K&N Filters

[Jeremiah Curry]

Speaking of oily coarse steel wool oil filters.  That is what I am currently
running on my TR3.  Only other option I have seen is K&N.  Are the originals
that bad?  I guess that is what the car run for the first 75,000 miles of
it's life before I got it.  Any suggestions of what else to get or where to
get it?

Thanks,
Jeremiah

-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Alan Myers
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:39 PM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] K&N Filters


At the very least, K&N have got to be one heck of a lot better than the
reusable, "oily coarse steel wool" filters that came stock on a '60s era VW
bug I had, and for that matter I think might have been original on my TR4
(by
the time I bought it, it had disintegrating foam filters on Hitachi SU/240Z
carbs).

No filter that allows air to flow reasonably freely is ever going to stop
the
smallest micro-particles completely.

I'll keep using K&N... My TR4 - when it's running - is a fair weather car,
anyway. The K&N in my Land Rover for the past 60,000 miles has managed to
not
disintegrated through all kinds of rain, snow and slop. But I frankly don't
know that it's ever gotten particularly wet, since it's housed inside a
pretty
well weather sealed box.

But, paper filters are darned easy, too. Just pop in a new one every so
often... and send the old one off to the land fill (today is Earth Day,
after
all).



Alan Myers
San Jose, California
amfoto1 at aol.com
'62 TR4 CT17602L
http://www.triumphowners.com/640

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