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The owner's manual shows air cleaners which have a screw in the center of the outer cover. Back out the screw, take off the cover and there is the filter element. That's simple enough except that the air cleaners on mine have no screw. It looks like they have to be unbolted from the flange on the carbs. Of course getting a wrench to those bolts will take a magician. Is there some easy way to get these covers off that I'm not seeing? The name on the covers is "Coopers". I,m wondering if they are original equipment, since they differ from the illustrations in the owner's manual.
Thanks for any info.
 
Thomas,

I seem to recall that the 100-4 air cleaners have the air inlet and filter around the edge. The 6-cyl cars have the air inlet and filter on the face opposite from the carbs. The 6-cyl filters are also made by Coopers and they are removed by undoing those bolts at the carb flanges. Yes, they are one of the worse to get off/on on the car. I usually drop one down that hollow section of the chassis that angles under the carbs, never to be seen again.

John
 

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Thomas Speer:
The owner's manual shows air cleaners which have a screw in the center of the outer cover. Back out the screw, take off the cover and there is the filter element. That's simple enough except that the air cleaners on mine have no screw. It looks like they have to be unbolted from the flange on the carbs. Of course getting a wrench to those bolts will take a magician. Is there some easy way to get these covers off that I'm not seeing? The name on the covers is "Coopers". I,m wondering if they are original equipment, since they differ from the illustrations in the owner's manual.
Thanks for any info.<hr></blockquote>

Thomas,

You didn't mention which model Healey you have, but the early Healeys had a Burgess brand air filter canister as you describe seeing in the Owner's Handbook, and later they changed to the "pancake-style" Coopers brand air filters that you describe. Sounds as though someone retrofitted later air filters to your carbs. No real harm in that, and to answer your other question, "Yes, they are difficult to remove and replace."
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Reid
 
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