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busman78
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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: Oil Bath Coconut Fiber Replacement |
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| The oil bath cleaner for my 70 bay, 1.6L with 34PICT3 is long gone, so is the pad it sat on. Came across a 66 T1 cleaner which is more than ample to feed air to the engine except the fiber is gone. Unit does not look burned, damaged or ever disassembled. Anybody ever replaced the fiber? And with what? |
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Karl
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busdaddy
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I've used steel pot scrubbers in similar tractor filters before, worked fine. Can't say I've ever had a VW filter apart that far though.
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AhnwS71
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:49 am Post subject: Re: Oil Bath Coconut Fiber Replacement |
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| except the fiber is gone. Anybody ever replaced the fiber? And with what? |
Does anyone know of a replacement for this filter or have one they want to part with?
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SGKent 
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AhnwS71
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: Oil Bath Coconut Fiber Replacement |
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Thank you sir. I did not realize that you could use these products. Have a great day.
JC
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raygreenwood
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:58 pm Post subject: Re: Oil Bath Coconut Fiber Replacement |
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Coconut fiber or "coir"....as SGKent notes....is not hard to rind....however it is graded. Longer fibers with less dusting are better.
Finding what grade have versus what you need may be an issue.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.researchgate.net/figure/Grades-of-coir-fiber_tbl3_258052911/amp
For what its actually doing.....the copper pot scrubbers could be just as good. Its not actually a filter by itself. It causes the air (full of oil droplets and finer particles) to twist and turn between strands at high speed. As the air makes high speed turns between and around strands.....the mass of the oil and grit causes it to fall out of the air and stick to the coir.....where it eventually washes back down to the sump.
The larger particles fall out in the sump trying to make the high speed turn upward or downward into the coir filter section.
So staying with that function....a labyrinth filter.....the copper scrubber pads would be just about as good. Ray |
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