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04/04/14, 08:09 PM
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When did cars quit having oil bath cleaners?
A church guy I go to church with, and is a bit older than me, and supposedly drove hot cars way back then, said he didn't know that cars had oil bath cleaners. I had a 47 Chevy pk, and a 50 Chevy car that both had them.
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04/04/14, 08:22 PM
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my 56 Lincoln had oil bath,my 57 merc Monterey had air filter
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04/04/14, 08:52 PM
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I remember riding in a 50's olds that had one, a backfire caught the oil on fire and scorched the paint on the hood before we got it out.
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04/04/14, 09:04 PM
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My 68 Ford Pick Up had a Oil Bath Air Filter with its 360 V8.
But in cars 55---56 was about it. My 55 Chevy with a 6 did but not my 56 Chevy with a 283v8.
This is a pic of a '68 Ford PU same color that I had too. LOL
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04/04/14, 09:39 PM
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At differently times I have owed two 1976 F-150's with 360cid motors. The green one had oil bath, canister style fuel filter, shoulder belt and the gas tank below the bed. The yellow one had paper air cleaner, disposable fuel filter, lap belt only, one gas tank behind the seat and one under the bed.
Had a '69 Lincoln 460 cid with a paper filter. My brother '65 Falcon had a paper filter also.
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04/04/14, 09:57 PM
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And my old '68 IH truck still has a oil bath...
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04/04/14, 11:15 PM
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In 1978 I bought a F350 and as an option one could get the oil bath air cleaner, It has worked well for 36 years and cost me a lot less than the paper filters.
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04/05/14, 03:29 AM
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My '52 International PU had an oil bath filter. Don't think ANY of the '60's cars I had did.
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04/05/14, 04:23 AM
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The last vehicle I had with an oil bath air filter was a 1976 Ford pick up. I changed it to a paper filter after seeing a classmates pick up with oil bath burn down to the rims after a backfire ignited the filter and the fire spread to the dash and cab area and finished the show by flipping his truck over when the fuel tank eventually exploded.
Poor guy was practically in tears as we watched the fire from 100 yards away where the rest of us had driven our vehicles to for safety.
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04/05/14, 06:05 AM
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I owned a '62 Ford Econoline pickup in the 1970's and eighties. It had an oil bath air cleaner, in which I used 10w motor oil, changed it several times a year while cleaning the filter (we live on a dirt/gravel road a long way to the blacktop). Because of that I've always wondered why they changed to paper, since the oil bath system makes so much more sense. Maybe because people wouldn't change the oil? Or more probably because the profits on selling paper filters is so much larger.
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04/05/14, 02:06 PM
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Oil bath cleaners are more messy than paper, might be one reason.
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04/05/14, 03:56 PM
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Well, if the oil bath would sometimes catch fire, I am GLAD they changed to paper!
I had a Plymouth Roadrunner, probably '68/'69 named Jezebel. She wasn't running if she wasn't backfiring. I got so used to the poor carb catching fire that I sometimes just let it burn for a bit.
The car was well named.
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04/05/14, 04:05 PM
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NASCAR race cars went to dry filters in the late 1950's because when they raced on the beach at Daytona, the big engines would suck sand through the oil bath filters and cause premature engine failure.
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04/06/14, 11:55 AM
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The other thing that went out with the oil bath air filter was the vaccumn operated windshield wipers - when it was raining and you went up a hill the wipers would stop working - had to let off the gas to see - still loved those old cars -
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04/06/14, 12:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JoePa
The other thing that went out with the oil bath air filter was the vaccumn operated windshield wipers - when it was raining and you went up a hill the wipers would stop working - had to let off the gas to see - still loved those old cars -
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How about the Canister type oil filters?
Had to take a rag and clean out the bottom of the canister before putting in the new filter. And you really had to watch that you took out the old gasket so you didn't double it them up?
And the 'spin on' types were so much better.
How about the canister types that people would use a roll to TP in them? I never did but I remember the ads.
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And now just about every vehicle has 4 wheel disc brakes. Much easier putting gin 'pads' then it was shoes. At least the front brakes on all vehicles are disc.
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04/06/14, 12:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JoePa
The other thing that went out with the oil bath air filter was the vaccumn operated windshield wipers - when it was raining and you went up a hill the wipers would stop working - had to let off the gas to see - still loved those old cars -
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Ha! That brought to mind the Model A I owned that had a manually operated windshield wiper! Since there was of course no power steering on any early car, driving with one hand on the wheel and the other arm moving the wiper back and forth was quite an adventure. Ah, for the good old days!!
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04/06/14, 01:54 PM
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My47 Chevy pk had V wipers that I remember real well. In winter, with snow on the wind shield, we would root for the wiper to move across the windshield. It would budge back a forth a tiny bit, while we were rooting for it to make it across the windshield, Finally it would, and we would cheer it lol
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04/06/14, 08:56 PM
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My '62 Willys CJ5 was the last Oil Bath I owned. It didn't have an oil filter But I remember changing canister oil filters in 62 chevys.
I know operating on a hill w/ my jeep, every so often it would suck in some of the oil, miss, sputter and smoke a bit b/4 clearing up.
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04/07/14, 07:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JoePa
The other thing that went out with the oil bath air filter was the vaccumn operated windshield wipers - when it was raining and you went up a hill the wipers would stop working - had to let off the gas to see - still loved those old cars -
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That sure brought back memories. In high school a buddy of mine had a 56 chevy, not a classic then, it was just a 10 year old used car. It had vacuum operated windshield wipers. You could access the vacuum hoses from under the dashboard. While driving I would reach under the dash and pull off the vacuum line and stuff the end into an open can of motor oil. We would continue to drive while revving the engine. The oil would be sucked through the intake and burn a huge smoke screen behind the car. That was his way of saying hello to friends if they were following.
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04/07/14, 09:09 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RDuke
That sure brought back memories. In high school a buddy of mine had a 56 chevy, not a classic then, it was just a 10 year old used car. It had vacuum operated windshield wipers. You could access the vacuum hoses from under the dashboard. While driving I would reach under the dash and pull off the vacuum line and stuff the end into an open can of motor oil. We would continue to drive while revving the engine. The oil would be sucked through the intake and burn a huge smoke screen behind the car. That was his way of saying hello to friends if they were following.
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A '56 Chevy was my first car. It had a 265 v8 I then put in a 283. I then bought a 55 chevy for 55 bucks, a farmer was just using it to go out and get his cattle. LOL
Boy do I wish I had both those cars sitting in my driveway now. LOL
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