Changing oil bath filter to pancake type

[froggy]

I'm thinking of changing the standard oil bath air filter on my bay ,1600 TP (34 PICT 3 carb), to a flat pancake type to tidy up the engine bay a bit.
What are the advatages / disadvantages in this?
I've seen a lot of pictures of carbs with these fitted so it must be a popular choice but what does it do?

 

[slammedresto]

in my opinion bad idea, first thing i did with my last bus was dispose of the crap pancake filter and put back in the oil bath filter

ran miles better

 

[Clarkson46]

I'm thinking of changing the standard oil bath air filter on my bay ,1600 TP (34 PICT 3 carb), to a flat pancake type to tidy up the engine bay a bit.
What are the advatages / disadvantages in this?
I've seen a lot of pictures of carbs with these fitted so it must be a popular choice but what does it do?

It would be welcome to the world of carb icing. There are no advantages that I can think of. As they say chrome don't bring you home.

 

[easy]

If you do have a change make sure you get one as big as poss to prevent carb icing, or change to twin carbs :wink:

 

[froggy]

This is probably a really stupid question but...........
what oil should i be using in my oil bath filter as at the moment its clean and free of oil!

 

[angus]

Might be wrong, but I think you use normal (new!) engine oil - clean it out and fill to the red line (apparently there is one!)

Or Extra Virgin Olive.....