Tissu-pak oil filter from Henderize
I had an interesting day at the yardsales today, even though I didn’t buy much. At the first sale, I talked to a guy about his truck for a while. I’d seen it from a distance every day when I’m on my way to work, but I wasn’t sure about its actual make up. It’s Ford 1 ton 4x4 flatbed but it seemed to have much larger running gear under it. Turns the guy put in a 500 hp Caterpillar (3408?) v8 turbo diesel and 10 speed ranger gearbox. Then supplimented the suspension with airbags and 19.5″ rims. Said he gets 16 mpg unloaded. We talked diesels a bit, I mentioned how much I liked my 6.2 L suburban and how I’d like to get a Cummins 4bt from a chevy step van.
Then, at another yardsale I found this aftermarket oil filter (from back when cars didn’t come with oil filters):
The guy said he bought it for his truck, which he had bought new 50 years ago and still drives today. And then I looked up and saw a very nice ‘57 Chevy Cameo pickup. He said the stepside was $1800, but he sprung for the Cameo at $2200. He had used this add on filter until 1972, when he put in a 350 and automatic.
He recommended Scott toilet paper (seriously, it’s made so a full roll of toilet paper fits inside).
A few minutes of wirebrushing, then 320 grit on the DA and finally some tripoli on the buffing wheel and it cleaned up very nice. I have to wonder if it would actually work better than modern oil filters, the oil has to pass through a whole roll of toilet paper lengthwise, whereas in a new filter it just goes through a single piece of corrogated paper.
All of my cars currently have oil filters, but actually I want it to remove oil and water from compressed air for painting. I’ve been wanting a toilet paper air filter from TP tools, but I don’t paint enough to pay $79 for one.
I think this one will work fine, maybe I’ll use it with this nice airbush set I got at a yardsale last weekend:
Not bad for $5, its got a lot of tips and a bunch of baby food jars with the fittings already installed.
The toilet paper filter was reknown for its superior filtering ability……as for your post on elctrical connecters try to find aircraft grade much stronger and better contact. cool trike!
Comment by Bigdaddy — September 17, 2007 @ 11:31 pm