Air Filter

Hi, Ive a 1974 series 3 88 Land rover. It has a Weber carb fitted and one of those horrible cumbersome oil bath air filters atatched. Was wondering if I could do away with the oil bath filter and fit a more conventional Air Filter to the carb? What should I be looking for, or do you think its a bad idea?

Why? I don't understand why you'd want to! They flow ok, are quiet and require no more than a wash out every now and again. If you drive through a load of sand or dust all you need to do is wash it out.

I've got a horrid (fancy) mesh cone thing on mine since I swapped the carbs and the pipe no longer fitted - I dislike it intensely, its noisy and constantly needs flies and other ****e picking off it. I really need to get my arse into gear and put the oil batch back. It really needs to go on my V6...that sounds better for a bit of intake noise. Landy engines really don't they sound asthmatic at tickover and just plain noisy when running

If you must there's loads of cone air filters with rubber gasket adaptors which will bolt straight onto the carb elbow

Thanks, will take your advice and leave well alone. One reason was because the end of the rubber tube that meets the carb has a much bigger diameter than the weber carb top and I just cant find an adaptor.

Not sure which bit you mean but I seem to remember there was an ally adaptor between my old weber and the elbow - is that the bit you mean?

The weber 34 is smaller than a 36 zenith, not just engine side of the barrel but on top too. Mine came with an ally adaptor in the kit, i would make something from a rubber hose and some jubilee clips

Piece of thick-wall tubing to fit over the top of the Weber is an easy fix - been there done that a couple of times for random experimental carburettors.

The other thing you can do is use the proper rubber-strip connector on the join there - those will give some on interal diameter and while it won;t a completely unmodified Weber top will take up a lot of slack there.

As far as replaing the oil-bath, the only downside of the oil bath is that it does not flow air nearly as well as a paper-elememt air cleaner. What I ended up doing on my 109 was to get a paper-element holder from a late-80s GM midsize car (plentiful here but not there, I know). it had a layout like the oil-nath but toook a paper cartridge. I just added a rubber neck adapter to it and a 90-degree bend and it coupled right up to the intake hose and sits nicely in the oil-bath's spot under the bonnet.

Whole thing cost me a tenner.

However, if you don;t do a ton of miles in the car i wouldn;t mess with it - oil bath air cleaners are very efficient and inexpensive to maintain. Main reason i did it was I was leaving on a 1500-mile trip towing a trailer and wanted it to breathe well for efficiency on the road.

ajr

Both my Series 3s have the flat Pancake paper filter which sits atop their Zenith carbs. Apparently came out standard down here in NZ
Would be probaly easy to adapt for a weber.
On our local version of Ebay, 'Trade me' you should be able to find someone breaking series landy. The postage would be a killer though

Hi sorry to get behind with this thread Ive been away. Yes Dominic I thing there should be an adaptor on it but at mo previous owner did I right botch of oversize pipe pieces.