Oil Bath Air Cleaner in Desperate Need of Cleaning

[mahlers]

If you still happen to have the old oil filter around, cut it open and have a look at what's inside. You'd be amazed at what you sometimes see in the pleats. If the oil is only a few hours old since changing, and if it were me, I'd go ahead and have it analyzed to look for anything really strange, and then have it re-analyzed around 50 hours later. That way you'll see if you've still got dirt floating around now, and you'll see what the metal content trend is like between now and later.

Don't forget that compression check - it'll say a whole lot really fast.

It's a real shame when people don't maintain their equipment properly. Five minutes of pre-flight check would have avoided that detached intake tube and saved you from dealing with a whole mess of potential problems.

 

[doconnor1223]

If I use Kerosene in a five gallon "slosh bucket", how do I dispose of the muck laden kerosene when done?

 

[leonz]

If I use Kerosene in a five gallon "slosh bucket", how do I dispose of the muck laden kerosene when done?

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you can take the kerosene to any gas station/oil change place as they have to accept it
as waste oil that has to be disposed of and the dump pans they use have solids separators.

 

[doxford jim]

If I use Kerosene in a five gallon "slosh bucket", how do I dispose of the muck laden kerosene when done?

Let the kerosene stand for a week or so and all the solids will settle out. Just pour off the kerosene carefully and reuse. The solids could be disposed of quite readily. That way no waste and you get to reuse the kero

 

[Soundguy]

Let the kerosene stand for a week or so and all the solids will settle out. Just pour off the kerosene carefully and reuse. The solids could be disposed of quite readily. That way no waste and you get to reuse the kero

that's what I'd do. pour off the good kero and use as a solvent.. keep in a drum / 5g bbl.. pour into a coffee can to clean tools.. etc.

 

[Gem99ultra]

At the price of kerosene - something like $15.00/gallon at TSC), you'll want to save as much as you can.

I use a parts cleaner tank for things like that. I'm using CRC parts cleaner solvent (also about $15/gal) in my tank. I've set the pump on the parts cleaner tank to filter the solvent through a very large Chevrolet Bus Diesel filter to catch the crud. Filters run me about $5/each and last a very long time. Thanks to an old issue of Popular Mechanics for the plans

 

[Gary Fowler]

I would never use kerosene at that price to clean a filter anyway. Diesel is just as good and just about the same in regard to flammability and ability to loosen dirt.
You could likely use a good soap or degreaser and do the same thing by just saturating the filter then pouring hot water thru it and rinse with a garden hose.
Back when my Dad had to clean the oil bath on his old 8N, not having anything else, he would just pour about a gallon of gasoline thru it, let it settle, pour off the cleaner gas and do it again. Several washing of this would then be ready to pour about a quart of oil over the screens, what came thru would be in the bottom cup which required about 1/2 quart of oil in it also.
He would just use the dirty gasoline to burn stumps by mixing it with motor oil. He still needed to make sure he was upwind as it was still pretty volatile mixture and would go off with a WHOOMPF?

 

[284 International]

I've set the pump on the parts cleaner tank to filter the solvent through a very large Chevrolet Bus Diesel filter to catch the crud. Filters run me about $5/each and last a very long time. Thanks to an old issue of Popular Mechanics for the plans

Is there any chance you have a part number for that filter, or an application? Might you be able to scan the plans? That sounds like a great idea.

 

[Soundguy]

yup.. diesel works fine. and usually at 3-4$ per gallon.. especially red. not bad.

 

[jenkinsph]

At the price of kerosene - something like $15.00/gallon at TSC), you'll want to save as much as you can.

I use a parts cleaner tank for things like that. I'm using CRC parts cleaner solvent (also about $15/gal) in my tank. I've set the pump on the parts cleaner tank to filter the solvent through a very large Chevrolet Bus Diesel filter to catch the crud. Filters run me about $5/each and last a very long time. Thanks to an old issue of Popular Mechanics for the plans

I heard years ago that some of the large filter canisters were made to use toilet paper rolls to filter the engine oil. No idea if that was true or BS.