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Mercury Bobcat wagon

isn't the "treatment" just an light weight oil bath? I don't think the oil would affect the foam but a small test area would tell you easy enough.
 
Horseplay said:
isn't the "treatment" just an light weight oil bath? I don't think the oil would affect the foam but a small test area would tell you easy enough.
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I don't think it would hurt the foam, but the foam would not absorb the oil like a K&N type filter does. That would leave oil present in the opening in the foam, more likely to clog up. Just my thought process, no actual facts to back it up!
 
you are both right, it's light oil. and yeah, probably just make a mess. I have a foam filter on the outside of my lawn mower paper filter that I use it on because I have dusty areas. That kind of preserves the paper filter unmderneath
 
When I first read Ken's initial response my brain went right to whether or not the oil (a likely petroleum product) would have a degrading affect on the plastic (petroleum based) foam filter. Oils have a way of breaking down certain plastics. If you've used a plastic milk jug to hold used motor oil, for example, guess what happens when you leave it off to the side and forget about it for a long time? Yep, eventually the plastic will soften to the point the oil will find it's way out. I still have a nice oil stain to prove it! Anyway...

After the thread continued I woke up and had the same thought as Ken's did in the beginning and I think I agree with him. I think the oil would cling to the surface and between the act of liquid cohesion and the introduction of dirt particles I can see the pores of the foam getting all clogged up quickly.
 
kb3 said:
Did you build it on the kitchen table?
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lol, no that is my basement. It used to be a family room or rec room. I have a garage under the house just on the other side of the wall from that room. It's nice because we built the engine and trans in that room in the climate control (AC) and then just take the stuff thru the door into the garage. It's been a hot summer so it was nice to do a lot of the work in that room.
 
from the front of my house it looks basically like a single story "ranch" style but the ground slopes downhill in the back. The downstairs is all finished and basically the garage it part of the basement. We don't use that room so I turned it into an extension of my work space! Besides that room, there are two bedrooms, a laundry room, utility room, the garage and a full bath room downstairs. It's kind of nice except when I am using the torch, or rebuilding a rear axle or carb. The smells go upstairs and my wife gets mad at me!
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We got the trans in. We had lots of "issues"
The water pump bolts were only finger tight! oops. Had to make a throttle cable bracket, had to make a trans mount(original was broke and no replacement is available), the shifter was trash. The pot metal was all corroded and falling apart. I built a Frankenshifter from parts of the original, a 69 base I found in my junk pile and parts of my 67's original shifter (handle).
Now we realized we should have put the trans cooler lines on the trans before putting it in. I can't get one of the lines on with it the car (ugh!). Also the new radiator has female fitting for the cooler lines and the original was male. Gonna need to modify the ends.
But it's really close! A few more hours tomorrow and I think we can fire it up!
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