For the oil bath filter, go buy a gallon of 30wt NON-detergent. The detergent oils are made for modern engines and retain particles in suspension until the oil is changed.
Non-detergent oil will allow the particles captured during run time to sink to the bottom of the little canister. If you are careful, you can pour off the relatively clean oil above, and then scrape out the dirt from the canister, and then put the oil back in. With modern detergent oils the particles are held in suspension.
You don't need to clean it every 8 hours of run time, but consider the work conditions, and hours. If it's very dusty, every 25 hours of run time would be ok. If it's not driven into a lot of dust you might get away with 40 hours run time. It's not a set time, but it's how dusty the conditions are.
You used to be able to buy a water canister pre-filter. There is an attachment to the intake on the left side of the hood which sticks out, and has a glass jar below it. There is a turbine effect for the intake air, and particulates are dumped into the water jar, which then can be removed by just tossing out the water, and refilling the jar. It's hard to see behind the loader arm, but my Ford has the water jar pre-filter. Don't know if it's still avail anywhere, maybe call around to tractor junk yards and ask for it. This makes seeing the amount of dirt, and changing it out very quick and easy.
Another way is called the snorkel intake. It's basically a long tube that sticks out the side of the hood side and goes up 3-4 feet with a little hat or sock on top. The air more than 8' off the ground is usually much cleaner than right about the normal intake area. I haven't seen a snorkel intake for a while, but with some exhaust pipe, you could have the shop bend up what's need and make your own.
This post was edited by docmirror on 06/13/2023 at 11:46 am.
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