Re: [Chrysler300] Ram Air Cleaners

[lettercars@xxxxxxx]

Hi Ron:
Guess I should have looked at our own website first!!  Thanks.   Seems like 
the WIX number could be added in somewhere---I'll let our web expert  Bob 
Merritt take care of that.  
300ly, Gil
 
 
In a message dated 5/4/2009 6:32:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ronbo97@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Hey Gil  -

Just noticed that this information is on the website in Dennis  Cloer's 
'300F 
Parts Available thru NAPA' article. May be worth updating  with the WIX 
number in case there is no NAPA  nearby.

Ron

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Sent:  Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:22 AM
Subject: [Chrysler300] Ram Air  Cleaners


> Hi All:
> This may be of help to some.  I  had been using air cleaner elements in 
> the
> 300F the past  several years that I borrowed from my other F, last driven 
> in
>  about 1971 or 2.  I know I never replaced them in that car which  I
> purchased in 1969 or so.  I guess most of you would agree it  was 
probably 
> time
> for a change before the drive up to the  meet!  Anyway, I took one,  
along 
> with
> a list of  possible cross reference numbers to the local NAPA  store.   
None
> seemed to work, but they came up with one that was close by   measuring 
the
> old Autolite
> FA-38 I brought with me.  The  number they came up with was their  #2083.
> The main difference  between the two was the larger inside diameter  on 
the
> new  one.  Otherwise, it was the same in height and nearly so in   outside
> diameter.  It would work, so I bought two.
> Just  today I took out the other 40 year old filter element, a Hastings 
#AF
>  144.  To my SURPRISE it was the EXACT same size in all dimensions as  the
> NAPA #2083!  Because of its larger ID, it does not encroach  on the carb 
> air
> horn as much.  So, someone who owned my  other "F" in the 60's purchased a
> Hastings air cleaner element which  turns out to be the VERY SAME shape 
as 
> one
> available  today.  I can only assume that in the 1960's it would be the 
one
>  specified for the 300F.
> That number again????  NAPA 2083.   WIX #42083 is the same,  according to
> the NAPA guy.
> My  300F and I are both breathing a bit easier now!
> 300ly, Gil  Cunningham
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