Picture could be deceiving, they don’t look like the same size, photo angle maybe.The air filter is a bit smaller than I thought. As you can see after 2 plus years it’s accumulated quite a bit of dirt.
They are the same size 1:1
I'd blow that off with compressed air and reuse it.The air filter is a bit smaller than I thought. As you can see after 2 plus years it’s accumulated quite a bit of dirt.
Even better with soaking in acetone and let it sit overnight.
Lol.i have a k&n filter in my ram that's 15 years old. I keep my stuff a lonng time. The filter in my classic car is 35 years old,granted it doesn't get driven alot.
Please ignore my post about the acetone. I know nothing about chemistry. I paid like $19 for the filter from Amazon.
Well the ICE does not run as much as ours............... If they are City Divers, they might have 15K on the ODO, but the ICE ran 5K. Make Sense Now?
As per my earlier post, my classic car has a filter in that's 35 years old, granted it doesn't get used nuch.the k&n filter in my ram is over 15 years old, I know that's reusable. Our mavericks filter is almost 3 years old and 27,000 miles, doesn't look bad,I blow it out with compressed air every spring. will probably change it in a cpl more years at 40- 50 thousand miles.
I remember the oil bath air cleaners, you could pour off the oil scrape the crap out of the housing rinse the element out in the Zep tank reinstall everything with fresh oil, used to be a great filter, though messy, both of my mid 50's Pontiacs had them on top of a hooking 348 cid V8.
Many options affect this topic. I had cars with oil bath filters 1950s style. The engines loafed along with loose tolerances from the factory and coarse filters worked fine. High performance Muscle Car ear with big circular filters of tighter material for he clearances used. These are fine up till computer machine tolerances needing tighter filters. Then there is the use of turbocharging. Even small dust paricles that impact the very high RPM turbines embed onto the blades and will hater more dust particle that can grow to the point of being able to cause damage. On turbo vehicles it is not dust into the cylinder but dust building up in the turbo.
Just like what oil you use everyone will have their opinion on what they like and dislike. Just use whatever filter you like to use and change it when dirty pretty simple.
