Oil Bath Air Cleaner - With Preheat

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:09 pm

Yay! Another project done...and it works!
Picked up this mess of an air cleaner last spring, so oily I couldn't hold it without rags. Of course the thermostat didn't work. $5 at the Woodburn VW show, next to a grass farm, in spring...living hell for the sneezy.

Well I finally got around to restoring the thing. Thanks go to German Supply for the NOS part, without it this wouldn't be possible.

A bit of history hidden in the pumpkin

long distance

mini-assembly of rare parts (2 years only)

yep dat's where it goes

finished, adjusted, tested

cheap thrills

delicious

out with the old

what's with me and orange anyway? (reminds me of 1930s aircraft)

What a weird gizmo but it seems to work. I'm keepin an eye on that sucker until I trust it. So far the engine seems happy with preheat.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:02 pm

I think it is cool that you are livening up your engine compartment color scheme.

static · Post by **static** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:09 pm

I have pre-heater envy.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:14 am

They're out there in various states of disrepair. Maybe I can restore a couple more, it was rewarding.

airkooledchris · Post by **airkooledchris** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:58 am

chitwnvw wrote:I think it is cool that you are livening up your engine compartment color scheme.

and doing it well. there are so many out there that should have left well enough alone, but I dig the orange a lot.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:06 am

Thanks! I'm trying to go for that 1930s racing plane motif.
It took me a long time to decide on orange. I really liked the burnished metal after sanding but it woulda been too much work to finish it all that way. I really wanted tomato red but ya can't buy it in regular rattle-can.
Of course now I'm all paranoid that it's not gonna work right, but I get like that after taking things apart.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:52 pm

hambone wrote: Of course now I'm all paranoid that it's not gonna work right, but I get like that after taking things apart.

Luke. Trust the force.

justgimmecoffee · Post by **justgimmecoffee** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:15 am

Dats niiiice.

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:21 am

hambone wrote: It took me a long time to decide on orange.

I'm tellin ya, it needs a vintage-style Fram decal with that paint. Something along teh lines of this one, though .. not this one, it's for an oil filter.

Oregon72 · Post by **Oregon72** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:44 am

That looks beautiful - something tells me it didn't actually take you that long to decide on orange - that's your color dude. You're a summer.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:34 pm

Oregon72 wrote:That looks beautiful - something tells me it didn't actually take you that long to decide on orange - that's your color dude. You're a summer.

Beginning to sound like a beauty shop klatsch around here.
Colin

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:10 am

TECHNICAL FORUM<<<<<CLEAN IT UP PLEASE

Besides you have a reputation for waxing strange hidden parts. Oh so many kettles around here.

(OK I couldn't resist

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Itinerant Air-Cooled

Itinerant Air-Cooled

Oil Bath Air Cleaner - With Preheat

Oil Bath Air Cleaner - With Preheat