air cleaner repair

[Princess Valiant]

well i got a 70 dual snorkel air cleaner for free off a scrap pile with a 70 road runner headed to scrap ....( i know i know ...the car was too far gone and not mine anyway)

so even though it was a free air cleaner it was damaged ......it was run over on one snorkel ....so i was looking around and i noticed that the snorkel is almost exactly the same as slanty or 2 BBl. air cleaner.

so i cut off the snorkel from a slanty air cleaner and i am proceeding to transplant it.

with the bad snorkel cut off i have it in the sand blast cabinet now.


stay tuned as we go through this air cleaner resto idea ....maybe it wont work but i have to try .......this is a 70 only cleaner with the straight line on the snorkel and the slanty air cleaner donor snorkel is also a 70 ....same snorkel.

to make life hard it had to be the passenger side snorkel which has a base that is unique to dual snorkel air cleaners so i will be doing hammer and dolly work on the bottom section of the snorkel

the snorkels are pretty easy to remove as they have four spot welds to break.

 

[4spdragtop]

Good save Rani! Looking forward to seeing progress

 

[rumblefish360]

Nice!

 

[Princess Valiant]

you can see the bashed up snorkel and the donor one out of the blast cabinet .......I drilled holes in the donor snorkel for plug welds .....and I used weld through primer on the surfaces I wont be able to reach in the paint stage.

the first plug weld went in perfect ...so perfect that I got too confident ....the first one flattened out and is ready to go.

my over confidence smacked me bcoz the second one burned through :banghead: so then it made a nugget as I tried to fix the burn through ....so that one will need some grinding and finishing.

I have the vision already ...I might have to PM Leanne for a pointer on a low buck way to duplicate crinkle finish.

I found a lid that looks like it came with it......when I got the base I didn't get a lid with it. oh well cant complain when you take stuff off a junk pile.

plus my donor cleaners have good vacuum pods and osac valve.:cheers:

now I still need to tackle the snorkel base.

 

[Princess Valiant]

the one left is unique to a dual snorkel ....the warm air duct is only used one the driver side ...since this piece is unique to this cleaner I must re-use it .....this is where the work will be to get the edge re-formed back into shape.

probably a couple hours of hammer and dolly work.

I already did some rough shaping to get it that straight

 

[duster360]

Very nice work.

 

[CudaJunction]

Cant beat a chick that can weld..

 

[mopardrt]

Wow looks AMAZING good job so far

 

[RedFish]

Nice work
Least expensive way to reproduce the wrinkle finish is with paint. Eastman has it.

 

[RPM]

Nice job Rani

Check my thread on the one I built out of a regular 4 bbl single snorkel air cleaner assembly. I built it for my truck and took the pods off as they are not needed. You will have a great air cleaner and experience when you are done !

Here is my thread.

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=145220&highlight=AIR+CLEANER

 

[mattsmopars]

Great Job! I have one the I did the same thing to. I was also able to straighten the damaged snorkel once I got it off. Matt

 

[Princess Valiant]

thanks guys ....

I was looking around today and apparently wrinkle finish is available in spray bomb ....not sure how good it is.

I would like to get this air cleaner in epoxy primer before trying anything like that.

 

[WRB426]

I'm impressed again!!! rayer:
Great job!

 

[ef8340]

the rattle can spray paint works great just make sure its a hot day out the hotter the better. I didn't use primer though. I painted the whole thing with semi gloss black then used the wrinkle paint

 

[Abodybomber]

Young lady,there you go again.Nice work.