Comments on: What year did ford stop using oil bath air cleaners in their cars.?

By: kelly_f_1999

kelly_f_1999 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:38:59 +0000

you know there are forums just for your car

type into searchbox year model fourms
wil get you with other who have them faster way to get great info on part ands repairs
early 1960s. latest ive seen

57 ford fairlane
57 ford truck
57 ford thunderbird
57 ford pickup
57 ford ranchero
57 ford f100
57 ford international
57 ford skyliner
each one might have a forum and they who owns one wil know best add fourm to end of any of these might get you faster answers but why you asking if you got a 57 look for a oil bath for a 57
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http://www.57fordsforever.com/

By: Albertaschild

Albertaschild — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:17:59 +0000

In some models of cars with the inline 6 they were used as late as 66 or 67 and in the trucks with the 6 cylinder as late as 79.
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By: thummmper

thummmper — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:06:59 +0000

1962–1963 or thereabouts
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me I gotta great memory–I was alive then.

By: 144289

144289 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:45:59 +0000

talked about that the other day! In trucks as far as i know it was 1976
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By: mustanger

mustanger — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:24:59 +0000

If you have an oil bath filter on a ‘57 it, most likely, isn’t original. I owned a ‘57 Ford Fairlane back in ‘59 & ‘60 and it had a paper filter. One of my best buddies had a ‘55 at the same time and it also had a paper filter. The last oil bath filter I remember on a Ford car was around ‘53 or maybe ‘54. The trucks may have run them a bit longer than the cars, I’m just not certain. Ford dropped the old flat head V8 in ‘54 and went to what they called the Y block overhead V8. I think it had the paper filter. I’m not sure about the six cylinder air cleaners. They may have run the oil bath later on the six.
ADDED: O.K. For sure the ‘55 and up full size Ford cars with a V8 had a paper element air cleaner. I know that for sure with no guessing. I owned a ‘57 2 door sedan with a 292 Y block V8 and my buddy owned a ‘55 sedan with a 272 Y block V8 . Both had paper elements. I worked on a ‘54 for a kid in 1962. The ‘54 was the first year for the Y block but I can’t recall, for the life of me, whether it had a paper or oil bath filter. From ‘55 up though they were paper element on the V8s. The old flat head V8s Ford ran from 32 through 53 were all oil bath. It could be that your car was a 6 cyl original and someone used the oil bath from the original when they dropped a V8 in it.
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Been repairing and restoring cars for over 50 years.