Forklift Air Filters

With more than 3,000 listings, this is the biggest filter type on the site, and a forklift air filter is almost always found by number. About two thirds of the listings start with "For", nearly always followed by a make or filter brand, such as "For Hyster Air Filter 1620142". About 660 more start with "Replacement", as in "REPLACEMENT AIR FILTER FOR CATERPILLAR A0000-29286", and the remaining tenth open with "Air Filter", "Forklift" or a make or filter brand. The first job is working out which kind of number is printed on your old filter.

Forklift Air Filters by Truck Make

Caterpillar and Mitsubishi lead with about 270 listings each, and Komatsu follows with about 190. Toyota has about 175, Allis Chalmers about 170, and Hyster about 165. Clark and Yale have about 140 each, Nissan about 125 and TCM about 110. Several of these makes have their own page where you can skip the rest: Toyota air filters, Hyster air filters, Yale air filters, Clark air filters, Nissan air filters and Mitsubishi air filters.

Not everything here goes in a forklift. About 70 listings are for Bobcat, which has its own Bobcat skid steer air filters page, and about 70 are for Daewoo (see Doosan and Daewoo air filters). Smaller groups name JLG, Genie and Skyjack, which are aerial lift makers.

Searching by the Filter Maker's Number

A second group of listings is organized around the company that built the filter, not the truck. Donaldson has about 190, Wix about 90 and Baldwin about 60, with Mann and Motorcraft in the 30s. If the label on your old element says Donaldson, search the number as printed, for example P183225 or P18255. Baldwin numbers look like PA3901, and a Wix listing reads "FOR WIX AIR FILTER 546562".

That approach is handy when a truck has been serviced for years with whatever filter was on the shelf, since the number on the old element may belong to the filter brand and not to the truck maker. If you've seen us on eBay as ouroverstock, you may know our record there: we've sold on eBay since 2004 and are a Top Rated Seller, with more than 200,000 items sold and 99.9% positive feedback.

Reading Air Filter Part Numbers

The Japanese makes use dashed numbers in groups. Nissan listings look like 16546-0K300, Mitsubishi like 30930-35100, and TCM like 16546-48210. Toyota adds a short tail: about 100 dashed numbers on this page end in -81 and about 60 end in -71, as in 00591-06548-81 and 17801-45020-71. Include the tail when you search.

American makes run shorter. Yale numbers are usually nine digits with no dashes (800009925), about half of the Clark numbers have seven (3340046), and about two thirds of the Hyster numbers have seven as well (2045606). One more thing to try: the same base number sometimes appears with a letter in front, as with "TCM Air Filter 16546-48210" and "for TCM Air Filter N-16546-48210". If one form finds nothing, search the other.

Forklift Air Filter FAQ

What if the number on my old filter is worn off?

Look at the machine's data plate for the make and model, then open the matching make page above and compare the listings by engine or size. The oil filters, hydraulic filters and fuel filters pages cover the other filters on the truck, and the full forklift filters page holds all of them together.

Why do some listings name two makes?

About 16 listings name more than one truck make, so read the whole listing before you rule it out because the first name isn't yours.