Can Anybody Top This???

big tee · Mar 7, 2019

Saw this--Tractor is a 68--50 years on a filter. Just take the filter out and pound it it on the tire and put it back in--good for another 10 years! Those Donaldson filters are good---Tee

Mike M · Mar 7, 2019

Saw a similar thing on a JD 1020 gas. Guy washed out his air filter just like the book shows. Trouble was he missed the part about only doing this once. You could see the fibers of the filter had opened up letting fine dirt get in and ruin the valve guides and upper cyl. walls ! Needed a rebuild with really low hours like 3000 or less.

coshoo · Mar 7, 2019

Kind of reminds me of getting ready to make the trip across the Cascades from Yakima Firing Center after 2 week expense-paid "summer camp". Pulling maintenance on the rigs- Pvt. Mike, our resident ne're-do-well, drove a deuce and a half. I saw him take off the oil bath, look at it, poke his finger in it a little bit, then dump out a donut of oil-soaked dirt that stayed intact even after it hit the ground. Kicker was, the XO saw it too, and was just getting there when Mike was putting the pan back on, without putting oil in it. The vigoro hit the ventilator, as you can imagine. Poor Mike passed away from an intensively dissolute lifestyle, when he was in his 50's.

GreenEnvy · Mar 7, 2019

I?m willing to bet the oil filter in our TD 14A hasn?t been changed since the 60s which was the last time we used it for farming.

Determined · Mar 7, 2019

Had a customer bring in a mini van for an oil change, said he had picked up at an auction for a great price.

Only had 89 000 on the odometer.

Pulled out the air filter on which someone had written down the date it was changed about a year prior along with an odometer reading of 235 000.

He left in a less than stellar mood for the auction house, never did hear how he made out.

Eldon (WA) · Mar 7, 2019

I have a bunch of NOS filters from pre 1970....gonna drive a lot of people nuts with them LOL!

Roy in UK · Mar 7, 2019

Yes, I can! A British Massey Ferguson engineer out working in Africa somewhere got called out to a tractor whose engine was completely shot. He unclipped the bowl from the oil bath air cleaner only to discover that there was no oil in it whatsoever but it was filled up to the mark with dry sand! The driver told him that he had emptied the "dirty oily sand" out, cleaned the bowl and replaced it with "nice clean sand". OMG (Facepalm time)

Naylorbros · Mar 7, 2019

Not that bad. I picked up a 1049 New Holland bale wagon. The owner had ran the Ford 361 in it to death and had installed a Ford 390. The best part, even though he had ruined the original engine, he never installed a new air filter with the new engine. The air filter in it was dated the same year as the machine was build. Even with its quirks it was a lot better than hauling hay by hand. Lost that one in a barn fire. We have a 1069 now. In writing this it just reminded me I have a clutch job to do on that one before first crop.
Thanks
Ken

JOCCO · Mar 7, 2019

Around me there was a couple engines rebuilt or worked on in the 1950's. Fast forward to 1990's and they were opened up for what ever rebuild or worn out. Inside was tools from the 50's work!!

Kansas4010 · Mar 7, 2019

I can't beat it but I might be able to tie. When I bought my JD 2510 the air filter on it was marked sometime in the 60's. I just can't remember the date been to many years. I can't prove it but I always guessed it was the original. My ex's dad had an IH 806. He didn't want to buy a new air filter for it so he just yanked it out and left the cover off. It ran for several years that way from what he told me. That poor 806 must've been one tuff machine to withstand the abuse it took for as long as it did.

Jeff NWOH · Mar 7, 2019

I can't top it, but I did change the air filter on my brush chipper a couple years ago. It had a date of 1978 on it, which was the year it was built.

Destroked 450 · Mar 7, 2019

(quoted from post at 09:20:28 03/07/19) Saw this--Tractor is a 68--50 years on a filter. Just take the filter out and pound it it on the tire and put it back in--good for another 10 years! Those Donaldson filters are good---Tee

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Well that beats the 25 year old original Rochester air filter I pulled out of moms car last year, but her's had never been taken out to have to dirt beat out of it.
The birds nest packed up in the intake tube was probably acting as a pre filter to extend filter life.

Tech 7 · Mar 7, 2019

I rebuilt the engine in a JD 4030 gas a couple of years back, the inner filter was stamped 1975. The 4020 ('72) I just finished the engine rebuild on had a main air filter stamped 1974.

jon f mn · Mar 7, 2019

You beat me by a month, the one in the 1030 I have says Nov 67. The tractor is a 68 so it was the original factory filter. Don't have a pic in this phone.

the tractor vet · Mar 7, 2019

I never looked at the date on the filter , But i got a call from a guy that his tractor lots power and was smoking really bad and he was trying to get his fields plowed . The tractor in question was a 1030 Case that he had bought at and auction a couple weeks prior . So when i finished up at the one service call i went to his place on the way home . The tractor had a hard time even starting and smoked bad even at idle . went to pull the air cleaner out and i could not pull it , to get it out i had to use two pry bars as it was packed solid with dust , so how long does it take to put that much dust and dirt into and air filter and housing to lock one up like that .

flying belgian · Mar 7, 2019

I was told by more then one mechanic that an air filter does a better job of filtering the more it is plugged. To never clean them until the indicator gets to red zone. Makes sense to me. Also never use compressed air. Just tap them out. If that does not move indicator back to green then replace the filter. So that's what I've been doing for last 15 years.

Ivan in Mich · Mar 7, 2019

I bought a NH skidsteer at an auction once and it would just barley run. Got it home and looked it over and my son pulled the air filter cap off and it was half full of straw and dirt. Inter element looked good but changed both of them. I used it for 4 or 5 years and traded it for a ford 1600 tractor.

jon f mn · Mar 7, 2019

Mine also had the original hyd/transmission filter in it.

fixerupper · Mar 7, 2019

Back in the late 70’s I was dealing on a new tractor with the Deere dealer. The salesman was not in a good mood but after we talked awhile he opened up on me about a certain demanding customer. This customer was constantly running down the mechanics. In his mind something was always wrong with the mechanic’s work. The day before I talked to the salesman this demanding customer called for a mechanic to come fix his combine that didn’t have any power and he wanted the mechanic out there NOW. The mechanic found the air filter was plugged so tight he had to take it out in pieces. That was the end of the story, he didn’t elaborate farther. I’m sure some of you guys have a similar story.

WGM · Mar 7, 2019

Never heard of running a tractor on barley unless it?s fermented first.

4wdtom · Mar 7, 2019

I think most oil systems or filters have a by-pass valve so when the filter becomes blocked the oil will by-pass it and the engine will still get oil or you won't blow out the filter with excessive pressure. If you use a very old filter it may well be blocked and you aren't filtering any oil.

Kansasredneck · Mar 7, 2019

Now if it said 37, I'd have guessed it was one of my dad's machines

big tee · Mar 7, 2019

I just got back in the house and read all the replies-good ones but I like Roy from Uk the best--Replaced the oily sand in the cleaner with fresh dry sand--CLASSIC---Tee

RVS · Mar 7, 2019

I don't have a old dirty filter story. I quit farming in 1991 and sold most of my equiopment privatly,so I did not have an auction sale. Anything left over I brought to my new house and shop. Well there is a box of filters from my tractors and equipment in the shop. I haven't looked at them in that many years, but i assume there will be dates on the filters. So if I put one of these filters in a piece of equipment and some time later someone looks in the air cleaner and sees the old date am I bad guy for using a new old stock filter? I have a few other new old stock pieces left around and every once in awhile my wife sees them and makes a comment " why do you still have these parts here". I tell her ,you never know when someone might need a disk opener for a Ih drill.lol

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 7, 2019

I'll have to look at my '72 2000 to see if it has a date. FIL got it in back in the 80s from a horse farm up the road when the guy owed him money for hay. I wash and dry it every year and it's still good.

caterpillar guy · Mar 7, 2019

Yup I can beat it with the old cat it has brass screens that came with it for fuel and oil filters. Just wash them out and reuse. Other than that I would guess the rest of them would show a date of in the last 3-5 years for air and with in the last year for oil,fuel,and hyd.

shaun wallace · Mar 7, 2019

Man my father worked for in early 70s would wash out elements in gasoline then let dry out then start tractor and slowly insert. Them diesels would really wind up.

Brown Swiss · Mar 7, 2019

Nope i changed 30 or so today and most had from 15 hours to 250 hours on them. We keep baldwin in business. Lol

36 A · Mar 7, 2019

Local caseih were called to look at a combine . Caseih 1660 died in the field . They used pry bars to pull the air filter from there canister !

RedMF40 · Mar 7, 2019

Can't really beat that but can offer this: My brother bought a new Honda. About 20 years later we needed to go somewhere so we took his car, the same Honda. What's with the heat? Barely a whisper of air was coming out of the vents. It was winter time and I wanted some warmth. That's just the way it is, he said. Car is old, stuff is wearing out. Not really knowing what I was doing I investigated further, found the car had a cabin filter. When I located it it was clear it had never been replaced. Acorns, pine needles, everything was in there. 20 years worth of dirt. Replaced the cabin filter and the blower pushed air through the vents like never before. Heat and AC were back to normal.

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