Thread: Zenith Stromberg CD 175 Breathing

Lionel,

Hello from Brisbane.

There are an awful lot of Land Rovers that have traversed the planet with the original oil bath cleaner intact. Ditto other 4WDs, tractors etc.

My guess is that for harsh and dusty conditions they were deemed by the design engineers to be the best way to go. Can't really see that they would have got it all that wrong.

For my money I would be leaving the sports type filters to the revheads.

Cheers,

Originally Posted by S3ute

Lionel,

Hello from Brisbane.

There are an awful lot of Land Rovers that have traversed the planet with the original oil bath cleaner intact. Ditto other 4WDs, tractors etc.

My guess is that for harsh and dusty conditions they were deemed by the design engineers to be the best way to go. Can't really see that they would have got it all that wrong.

For my money I would be leaving the sports type filters to the revheads.

Cheers,

G'day S3Ute,

But those Ramflo's look so pretty!

Maybe I should get the oil bath cleaner chromed or anodised so it looks more flash. I am sure it would make the 2.6 go faster

Once I get the damn thing started that is. No spark and it remains elusive during the search for it.

Kind Regards
Lionel

Lionel,

Hello again.

Yes, the Ram Flos and pot types certainly look their part.

In a former life of mis-spent youth I had an MGB and hung around with the kinds of folks who drove Triumphs (TR3, TR4 and Spitfires), Austin Healeys (Sprite, 2000 etc), GT Cortinas and much modified minis. For this lot the Ram Flos and pots certainly were on the "must have" lists.

However, I don't think any of these were ever likely to be confronted with the ambient air conditions that your average Land Rover, or general country ute for that matter, typically comes across during its working day.

Others, may come on and declare these musings as absolute tosh. However, having endured a career in which "progress is spurred by challenge" my otherwise veneer thin sense of ego may well cope.

Cheers,

I killed (dusted) more than one holden grey motor with these chrome additions and eventually went back to big paper element types, oil baths or best of all Donaldson aircleaners.
I have always run Donaldson aircleaners on my off road race cars and never dusted a motor with them. Even the big breathing rotary engines were well supplied by the 4" donaldson units.

I just belted the dents out of my original oilbaths lid and gave it a repaint last weekend but will admit I am thinking of adapting the inlet to run a snorkle.

Hello All,

While I was sorting out my spark problem - yes the one I actually caused myself I noticed that the was fuel dripping out from the bottom of the Zenith Stromberg CD 175 s. Could people give me some clues as to what could be causing this? Perhaps a stuck central/main piston or accelerator valve?

The engine did run sweetly for a little while. Then it just quietly and slowly seemed to strangle itself and stopped running. It did not respond by the time I could reach the accelerator pedal or choke.

I was really pleased that it started. When I bought it the engine was not running. So this is only the second time that I have managed to coax it back to life. However it did not keep going for very long at all.

In all honesty I had started to think that the first time it ran was just a figment of my own imagination. Maybe I am deluding myself again and it actually did not start today

Kind Regards
Lionel