Farmall H MW paper air filter

I always wandered that too, if someone has cut the wire mesh out of the center, and fitted the shell, with a paper filter ?
 
Yep, me too, always wondered about it. Seems simple. I think it has been discussed before.
 
Most filters are made for air to pass from outside filter to inside. Hard to do in a H filter housing. If a filter could be found to flow the other direction it wouldn't be that hard to rig something up. I'm no filter expert so I don't know if some filters work the same both directions or not.
 
Well some of the over the road semi's got the vertical air cleaner canisters on each side of the hood, how they do it is, they have a cone shaped air filter, with the the small part up. But we all know there is more of them to be sold each year, than for the Farmall collectors!!
 
(quoted from post at 05:28:22 02/26/15) Most filters are made for air to pass from outside filter to inside. Hard to do in a H filter housing. If a filter could be found to flow the other direction it wouldn't be that hard to rig something up. I'm no filter expert so I don't know if some filters work the same both directions or not.

Exactly. The air filter canister would need serious modifications before a paper filter would be functional. Not too mention that the original oil bath filter will catch more dust than most dry, paper filters.
 
No, don't think that last comment is correct. Check
websites for Donaldson and their dry pleated paper
filters catch 99+% of the dust, some 99.9+%.

Then look for oil bath AIT filters. Nelson,
Donaldson make them. And try to find a percentage
of dust they collect. They do not publish that
information. Back in the 1960's IH published a
tractor tune-up booklet describing what and when
tractors should be serviced. That was when all
tractors still had oil bath air filters. They, IH
said 80-90% efficient at collecting dust.

The dry pleated paper air filter is why today's
tractors can go 10,000-15,000 hours between
overhauls, and the oil bath air filter is/was why
tractors 50 years ago needed rebuilt after 2000-4000
hours. Granted better engine oils and oil filtration
help too.

I've run oil analysis on my PSD in my pickup many
times, couple when I still had a K&N filter on it.
Silicon, dirt, plain old dust was 2-3 PPM, and with
the pleated paper element it has always been 0 or 1
ppm. K&N filter is much better than an oil bath, but
not near as good as dry pleated paper.

I can't think of a single new machine that comes
with an oil bath air cleaner today.
 
(quoted from post at 08:54:08 02/26/15) No, don't think that last comment is correct. Check
websites for Donaldson and their dry pleated paper
filters catch 99+% of the dust, some 99.9+%.

Then look for oil bath AIT filters. Nelson,
Donaldson make them. And try to find a percentage
of dust they collect. They do not publish that
information. Back in the 1960's IH published a
tractor tune-up booklet describing what and when
tractors should be serviced. That was when all
tractors still had oil bath air filters. They, IH
said 80-90% efficient at collecting dust.

The dry pleated paper air filter is why today's
tractors can go 10,000-15,000 hours between
overhauls, and the oil bath air filter is/was why
tractors 50 years ago needed rebuilt after 2000-4000
hours. Granted better engine oils and oil filtration
help too.

I've run oil analysis on my PSD in my pickup many
times, couple when I still had a K&N filter on it.
Silicon, dirt, plain old dust was 2-3 PPM, and with
the pleated paper element it has always been 0 or 1
ppm. K&N filter is much better than an oil bath, but
not near as good as dry pleated paper.

I can't think of a single new machine that comes
with an oil bath air cleaner today.

The big reason for the change to paper filters was because of the introduction of turbo-chargers on diesels. The turbos had a tendency to actually pull the oil out of the oil bath, which could have been remedied by making the oil bath filter much larger, but there wasn't enough real-estate available to accomodate a larger oil bath filter.
 
This is my M with a paper filter set up. Tube runs straight into the carb. I have since swapped it back to the original setup.
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I would sell you mine, but I imagine shipping would be a small fortune since it would take a large box. I am in SW Iowa, close to Omaha.
 
I would probably be in the $60 range. I have everything to hook it straight up as is, just will need a new rubber hose piece from the top of the engine to the air tube. The thing is it's so large I don't really want to mess with shipping it because I, one, don't have any boxes that big and, two, I figure UPS would charge $30 to $40 probably to ship it.
 

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