Notes : Air filter

The air filter, its boring and not very complicated, right ?  Well, I wanted to change the filter and when the car-parts guy started asking questions I found out that the 404 has at least two different possible air filter systems (dry or 'wet') and each one has more than two different setups. Here is a short description and my final work-around when I received a filter that was just too short.


Dry air filter

airfilter_02_0a.jpg (1424 octets) airfilter_02_0b.jpg (19339 octets)
airfilter_02_0c.jpg (11942 octets) airfilter_02_0d.jpg (26961 octets)

These images show two mountings for dry air filters on the Peugeot 404.

airfilter_01a.jpg (68299 octets)

The Peugeot part numbers for the possible dry air filters are :


Oil bath or 'wet' air filter


Work around

The size of the filter for my 404 is 108 mm (diameter) by 170 mm (length). This is easy to measure ; just stick a ruler in the filter holder. I received a shorter filter (140 mm) which probably corresponds to the later installation. To use this filter, the easiest fix was to cut a 50 mm length of filter from a cheap, spongy air filter of the same diameter and install it as shown below :

 

 

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