Randall, hate to take issue here, but stock VW bugs have no oil filter,
only a screen to stop large chunks.
Anything that it can stop is plenty big to be a problem.
The commonly refered to oil filter on the bug is actually a course
screen and a restriction for the oil pump, I leave them out on service,I
clamp a magnet to the pick-up tube instead, and as the oil man said, "If
its heavy enough to sink it can DO no harm, if its light enough to float
then its not big enough to hurt." Engines I build (VW bugs) I plumb for
a full flow oil system. Ford did a study that showed major wear
reduction using a filter, against not using a filter, especially at the
rings.
Now how can we devize an oil system for a throw-out bearing with a built
in oil filter for Randall?
Bye Randall............
DK.
Randall wrote:
>
> Don Kerr wrote:
> >
> > Like I said.....the VW Beetle runs 100,000 plus with NO oil filter so
> > your premise, Randall, like his absence of data on filtration,(which he
> > explains) is based on a personal opinion. Right?
>
> Don, yer absolutely right. It's only my personal opinion that when
> comparing oil filters, how well it works is more important that how good
> it looks when you cut it open.
>
> And BTW, everyone I know that has gotten 100K miles from a bug motor has
> used an oil filter ... of course, your mileage may vary <g>
>
> > I'm not knocking Randall, I'm pointing out these are observations,
> > founded on findings.This is like
> > Quantum Mechanics.....if you know where it is, you don't know how fast
> > it's going,and if you know how fast it's going, you don't know where it
> > is. .........Randall? The question now is....If Randall had run a "good"
> > filters, that performed really well, how much longer would Randalls
> > vehicles have run, and if he had, where would they be now? :->
>
> Right where they are, sitting in my driveway. (Well, except the TR3,
> which is on jackstands receiving a new throw-out bearing <g>)
>
> > PS. Does LUCAS make oil filters,
>
> Don't know.
>
> > and would you use them?
>
> Not unless I saw credible evidence that they were appreciably better
> than Fram ...
>
> Cheers, Happy Humbug, an aw' that
> Randall
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