Filter GONE!

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Originally Posted by Mike Peters

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't run air filters at all. We never run on gravel roads, so no dust. When you start your car with full choke, gas will drip from the carburetor. With a filter, that gas will accumulate in the filter body. If the engine happens to backfire, it will start that gas on fire. Safety issue.

Huh??? On ANY warm, dry day there will be dust on any road. Henry built the Model A as cheaply as he could. An air cleaner only prolonged the life of the engine, a benefit not realised till well after the car had been sold so not of much benefit to him Adding one would add to his expenses - something he fought hard to avoid.
I ask "If air cleaners are so useless, why does every modern car have one??"Same with oil filter. I agree that the wiere mesh type air "stainer" is near useless. I run a paper element filter mounted on the radiator stays and wouldn't consider going without one. It is very difficult to install any air filter because of the steering column. Very poor design.