Hey gang,
Anyone here ever adapt a common auto air filter to a small engine?
Reason I ask is that I own a military generator, about 1.5kW that seems to use a proprietary and unique panel filter. It's about 1 inch thick, 3.5 inches wide, and 4 inches long. Spent hours combing through the Wix/Donalson/Baldwin filter catalogs and they make nothing that's similar.
While I can still buy new old-stock filters, eventually the day will come when I can't buy the military filters anymore. These engines are longer used by the US Military, so I'm looking forward and thinking about how I could adapt a common small engine or automotive filter to this unit.
The carb on it has a hose that is about 1 inch inside diameter. It seems that some sort of homemade adapter could be fashioned that would clamp onto the carb inlet.
But I'm at a loss at how to house the filter.
One thought that occurred to me is to use a standard Honda oval filter and simply drill three holes into the current housing that holds the panel filter. The three holes would be inline - the center one would be small, about 1/8", and have a threaded rod that would hold on the filter like on the Honda GX200 engines. The other two holes would be for airflow. I'd make a gasket the shape of the base of the filter. Only problem is that this contraption now sticks out a good bit and it's not protected from the weather...
thanks,
ben
Anyone here ever adapt a common auto air filter to a small engine?
Reason I ask is that I own a military generator, about 1.5kW that seems to use a proprietary and unique panel filter. It's about 1 inch thick, 3.5 inches wide, and 4 inches long. Spent hours combing through the Wix/Donalson/Baldwin filter catalogs and they make nothing that's similar.
While I can still buy new old-stock filters, eventually the day will come when I can't buy the military filters anymore. These engines are longer used by the US Military, so I'm looking forward and thinking about how I could adapt a common small engine or automotive filter to this unit.
The carb on it has a hose that is about 1 inch inside diameter. It seems that some sort of homemade adapter could be fashioned that would clamp onto the carb inlet.
But I'm at a loss at how to house the filter.
One thought that occurred to me is to use a standard Honda oval filter and simply drill three holes into the current housing that holds the panel filter. The three holes would be inline - the center one would be small, about 1/8", and have a threaded rod that would hold on the filter like on the Honda GX200 engines. The other two holes would be for airflow. I'd make a gasket the shape of the base of the filter. Only problem is that this contraption now sticks out a good bit and it's not protected from the weather...
thanks,
ben