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Grandpa in the rustmobile...
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Spokane WA/Viola TN
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XXXX option on the spid....
was lookin at my very empty spid today and noticed a option marked out....it starts with 'OIL' and the rest is covered up in XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
so i cant read it...if somebody could post the # to the oil ameter guages and what not or any other option that starts with oil that could be on a 68 chevy truck...id be thankful...its not big deal im just curios wat it 'was/used to be' and is it from the factory marked out like that or what? somebody explain...THANKS ps its a 3 hole dash lol well 6 with aftermkart guages lol
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Brookings, SD
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Re: XXXX option on the spid....
Oil bath aircleaner??
Or maybe the old cartridge style oil filter?? Is there a code in front of what you have? If so, post that code.
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Grandpa in the rustmobile...
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Re: XXXX option on the spid....
there is...but i dont wanna go out in the dark to see......
dangit i wanna go see brb im goin to look lol 4K48BA and the option takes up the whole space its long.. it goes Oil EXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX so the next word starts with E lol
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John Goose-1968 C10 355,9.32-1CR, Vortec Heads ,262 voodoo, 3.73:1 3OTT (HS ride/beater/farm truck) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=317684 Grams 53-1953 Chevrolet Belair http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=1#post4327784 1969 Chevy C10 Shortbed 4.5/6?" Frame off resto http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=548136 1999 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 |
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Saving 1 truck at a time!
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kent, WA
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Re: XXXX option on the spid....
K48 is Air Cleaner: Oil-bath: capacity 1-quart. Not available on CE10 models with automatic transmission or when 396 engine is ordered.
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Re: XXXX option on the spid....
According to an OLD post from Thor 50 and GMCPaul, that is an Oil Bath Air Cleaner.
Check out this link, post #3 and #4 http://www.hostboard.com/forums/1967...-question.html
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Grandpa in the rustmobile...
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Re: XXXX option on the spid....
whats an oil bath air cleaner..?
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John Goose-1968 C10 355,9.32-1CR, Vortec Heads ,262 voodoo, 3.73:1 3OTT (HS ride/beater/farm truck) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=317684 Grams 53-1953 Chevrolet Belair http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=1#post4327784 1969 Chevy C10 Shortbed 4.5/6?" Frame off resto http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=548136 1999 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 |
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Southern California
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Re: XXXX option on the spid....
Oil Bath
An oil bath air cleaner consists of a round base bowl containing a pool of oil, and a round insert which is filled with fibre, mesh, foam, or another coarse filter media. When the cleaner is assembled, the media-containing body of the insert sits a short distance above the surface of the oil pool. The rim of the insert overlaps the rim of the base bowl. This arrangement forms a labyrinthine path through which the air must travel in a series of U-turns: up through the gap between the rims of the insert and the base bowl, down through the gap between the outer wall of the insert and the inner wall of the base bowl, and up through the filter media in the body of the insert. This U-turn takes the air at high velocity across the surface of the oil pool. Larger and heavier dust and dirt particles in the air cannot make the turn due to their inertia, so they fall into the oil and settle to the bottom of the base bowl. Lighter and smaller particles are trapped by the filtration media in the insert, which is wetted by oil droplets aspirated thereinto by normal airflow. Oil bath air cleaners were very widely used in automotive and small-engine applications until the widespread industry adoption of the paper filter in the early 1960s. Such cleaners are still used in off-road equipment where very high levels of dust are encountered, for oil bath air cleaners can sequester a great deal of dirt relative to their overall size, without loss of filtration efficacy or airflow. However, the liquid oil makes cleaning and servicing such air cleaners messy and inconvenient, they must be relatively large to avoid excessive restriction at high airflow rates, and they tend to increase exhaust emissions of unburned hydrocarbons due to oil aspiration when used on spark-ignition engines.
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Re: XXXX option on the spid....
Back when I worked at an ESSO (Pre-EXXON) station, we hated oil-bath air cleaners. Servicing them was part of an oil change. They were usually found on the older cars/trucks we serviced. For the most part, they were last used on FOMOCO stuff in '56. GM used them until the early '60's, depending on the engine. 235 six-cylinder engines had them until the 230 engine came out in '63, at least in cars. My '65 C-10 had one, though. MOPAR trucks used them into the '60's, too.
The filter media was usually excelsior, a fiber that looked like a pine straw that was woven into a mesh. Servicing those filters meant disassembling it, washing out the old oil, rinsing the dirt from the media, then adding new oil to the "Oil Fill Level" mark, and reinstalling it onto the carburetor. Some had a clamp that attached it to the top of the carb; others used a long stud with a nut on top to hold it on. If it was a hot day and the oil change was being done on a hot engine, it could become a bit dicey. There's been more than one of them that got dropped onto the engine.....
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