Re: Doing away with Oil Bath System

Posted by Dr.EVIL on January 19, 2007 at 12:38:41 from (72.37.171.36):

In Reply to: Re: Doing away with Oil Bath System posted by RustyFarmall on January 18, 2007 at 14:30:54:

I think Randy's post about pretty much decribes why He and I want to replace those ineffective oil bath air cleaners with dry pleated paper elements. I've searched & searched DONALDSON's website and NO WHERE do they list an efficency rating for an oil bath air cleaner with a pleated paper dry filter but a properly sized paper element has 99.7 to 99.9% efficency. The last numbers I saw on a oil bath cleaner in an International Tuneup handbook from the early 1960's said oil bath cleaners were 90-92% effective. Improved oil AND air filtering is why new tractors last 10,000 plus hours between rebuilds and 30-40 yrs ago the norm was 2000-4000 hrs. If I was still using My FARMALL's to pull a 24 ft peg-tooth harrow or a 12 ft disc stirring up dust clouds so thick You could almost walk on them I'd want a large capacity filter.....but for the few hours of pushing snow in winter and loader work I do in the summer replacing a dry filter element is no problem.
Plus oil bath filters can't handle the suction of a turbocharged engine....They use so much air they pull the oil right out of the filter.

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