WD45 air cleaner help
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Topic: WD45 air cleaner help
Posted By: jhid
Subject: WD45 air cleaner help
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2012 at 2:20pm
How do you get the steel wool out of the air cleaner? I looked it over and couldn't figure it out
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Posted By: LannyMTN
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2012 at 3:13pm
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If it has never been apart, there are spot welds around the outside of the case, fastening the inner grid. I use a sharpened screwdriver (with safety glasses of course), to carefully break these welds. It will bend the grid some, but if you're careful not too bad. There aren't any welds around the intake pipe. Once you have the spot welds broken the grid slips out. Then the fun begins. Slip the rolls of mesh out and unroll them. From the factory they were fastened with nails. Down through the years I have found them fastened with wire, hat pins, bobby pins, etc. After you unroll each one wash them in solvent, blow with compressed air, and hang to dry. Once clean and dry,rewind on the neck of the air cleaner(part that sticks through hood). All of this assumes you have the air cleaner on the work bench (four bolts inside of underhood tool box and of course intake hose). By the time you're finished you will know exactly how much tension to use rewinding, etc. A paper cone taped to the inner pipe, helps with reassembly. Center punch 5 or 6 dimples (toward the inside and very shallow) to hold the inner grid in place until cleaning time again. I have seen some odd stuff come out of those rolls in the last 50 years. Good look. Lanny Mid TN
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Posted By: jhid
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2012 at 8:19pm
thank you! I'll give it a shot tomorrow
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