Thread: Oil bath air filter dismantling

The outer lid, including the vents does come off (probably stuck with paint - remove nut, put a screwdriver in a slot and tap it upwards with a light hammer. And don't lose the little spacer on the bolt), but that is it.

The rest is held together by the rolled over edge where it joins on the oil sump. As you probably already know, the gauze element in this just lifts out.

As John mentions the top should lever off, photo below shows the three parts when I was painting one some years back.

DSCN2750 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

Interested to hear about the silver/black discussion. My military IIa and Dormobile have silver hammer finish filter housings the rest are black.

Also interested in the spacer John mentions. I guess it probably stops the lid collapsing in when you tighten the wing nut (like most filters I've found) but I've never found one fitted. I'll have a look in the parts book......

There is a thin cork strip (gasket) fitted either side of the filter where it's clamped between the middle & bottom sections.

Colin

I said be careful not to lose it! It has been present in all the ones I've pulled apart, but it would be really easy to lose.

Ive never seen a silver one, My Series3 is a British Military version and has a black air cleaner. never been painted. All my previous Series vehicles also had black. Obviously since it now has an Electric motor the air cleaner is of little use to me.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I said be careful not to lose it! It has been present in all the ones I've pulled apart, but it would be really easy to lose.

Looks like previous owners of every one of my Series Land Rovers haven't been so careful. Couldn't find it in the SII/IIa parts manual because it only shows the filter assembly partly 'exploded'.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Ive never seen a silver one, My Series3 is a British Military version and has a black air cleaner. never been painted. All my previous Series vehicles also had black. Obviously since it now has an Electric motor the air cleaner is of little use to me.

Found mention on a couple of UK sites.
My Dormobile is UK built but the IIa GS is Australian Army so assembled here. Both filters showed no sign of ever being re-painted and were in hammer finish silver.
I guess the filter was an outsourced item, maybe they changed supplier or for some reason there was a period when the supplier switched to silver ?

Colin

I have seen the occasional silver one, but almost all I've seen were black or had obviously been repainted.

Image of mine pulled apart, if you scroll down.
Gilbert

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Filter Seal.
Air cleaner seal

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