Oil Bath Air Cleaner

[hank911]

Hi,

I have a nice running 71 that is getting to be well sorted, a nice driver!
I have taken care of just about all the oil leaks and seam to have one area left.
The car came to me with it's original D-jet and air cleaner but there are no hoses hooked-up to the cleaner. I'm not sure of the funtion of this "oil bath" cleaner but it seams to be weeping oil all around. I've cleaned it up and changed the filter and it just overloads itself again,what a mess!
The engine is running strong and I just drove it to Lime Rock for the ALMS ( 170 miles round trip) and it burns no oil.
Any pictures or diagrams would be helpful and THANK YOU in advance.
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=73939&hl=alms

Here's the car in the corral.

Thanks again!!!

[Joe Ricard]

There is some pictures in the tech articles I think that has vacum line diagrams.
I too had a 1.7L D-jet car. once I figured out the oil bath (where to pt the oil) it quit pukeing oil all over.

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

There should be a small red line inside the bottom half of the air cleaner. You fill up the cleaner with oil to that line (it's not very much, but it should be there). It should not leak any oil out, except possibly under very hard cornering indeed.

--DD

[hank911]

Hi & thanks for the replies!

Aside from the hoses I found that I'm missing the body of the air cleaner. The one on my car has a top & a bottom but all the images I've seen have a body around the filter also.
Any idea how hard it is or compatable to put the later style filter housing on my 71? Any modifications or would it bolt on and hook-up to all the current hoses?

Thanks

[hank911]

Also wanted to note that the air cleaner has two hoses

1) from cleaner to base of firewall- to canister near gas tank?
2) from cleaner to oil fill breather


These sound correct??

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

Those sound correct. Check the early 1.7 D-jet hose diagram in the "EFI Hose Diagrams" section of this very website.

The 73 1.7's paper air filter is a bolt-on swap, but those can be kinda hard to find. The 70-72 filters are all the same.

--DD

[Tobra]

I have seen setups with a K&N kilter on PVC elbow looking thing that bolted onto the throttle body on a 1.7, not too pretty but worked well.

[SirAndy]

see if you can get the oil-bath to work right first.

it is by far the superior system, filtering efficiency wise ...
Andy

PS: i had a oil-bath system on my old 1.7L and it never leaked, even during hard cornering at an AX.
only time i made a mess was when i had the filter off the car and stepped on it ...