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Re: oil filters

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Subject: Re: oil filters
From: Johnmowog@aol.com
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 12:39:09 EDT
RE: Oil filter  conversions and filters:
First off, the list is right, Frams are trash. Cut one apart sometime... or 
just feel the comparative weight  vs. another filter. 
        Secondly, If you value your B, GET RID of the "face up" filter 
adapter. Why? Think about this: When you shut down the car, all the oil in 
the system drains down to the sump. With the inverted filter, all the oil in 
the FILTER drains out as well. The first several seconds of your starting 
time are thus spent pumping oil into an empty filter instead of to more 
important places. Bearings and rocker assemblys are particularly offended by 
this. That's why the inverted filter got changed back to a hanging filter 
after a couple of years of this bone-headed experiment. Yes, I know that 
there are filters for this application that supposedly have a check valve to 
keep this from happening. (And Santa Claus is coming, and the government has 
your best interests at heart...) The problem with the check valve filters is 
(1) you don't know if you actually have one these days, with all the generic 
and subsitution stuff going on, and (2) If you do have one and let the car 
sit for more that a couple of hours, it empties out anyway.

The  cure is a choice of 2.. Either put it back to the stock hanging canister 
filter,  buy the new adapter that moss has that puts the spin-on filter back 
in line with where it  hung originally, instead of on an offset plate. This 
looks better anyway, and gives better access than the late-unlamented hanging 
adapters, and won't screw your motor up the way the inverted ones do. These 
bring the oil cooler line fitting back to where it used to be on the old 
converter plate that the cannister filter used. Best of all they use the same 
filter as a spin-on midget, which is also the same filter as a 2 liter BMW 
(320i). This makes high quality filters easy to find, at least if you stay 
out of Kragen and PetBoys.
Best of Luck




 Correction:
 What I meant was "oil COOLER fittings"...
 
 >What I did was snatch the unit that holds a spin-on filter facing up from 
 >a later model at a wrecking yard. It has the oil filter fittings. I have 
 >been using Fram filters, I think PH8A, curiously the same one as my 67 
 >Barracuda V8!
 >
 
 
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 Max Heim
 '66 MGB GHN3L76149 >>

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