- 1. MGB spin on filter alignment? (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 01:10:28 -0500
- Just doing the first few things on the 1970 MGB project car I bought last week. I had a HELL of a time getting the old spin on oil filter off. All the time I am thinking "who the hell would put an oi
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01193.html (7,920 bytes)
- 2. Re: MGB spin on filter alignment? (score: 1)
- Author: bugide@juno.com (Larry Dickstein)
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:11:20 EST
- I tried that once and it didn't work. The reason that they get bent is that someone w/ gorilla arms tightens them down. Along you come and end up bending the center pipe trying to remove it. You have
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01199.html (8,286 bytes)
- 3. Re: MGB spin on filter alignment? (score: 1)
- Author: "John J. Peloquin" <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 07:33:51 -0800 (PST)
- =%OJust doing the first few things on the 1970 MGB =%Oproject car I bought last week. =%O "description of misery removed" =%O =%O However, putting on my new oil filter, I noticed that =%Othe threads
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01211.html (8,150 bytes)
- 4. Re: MGB spin on filter alignment? (score: 1)
- Author: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD)
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:33:07 EST
- Hi Trevor, It's possible that the vertical pipe onto which the filter spins has bent. Try putting a carpenter's square on the base to check out this theory. Could be that a filter stuck once before a
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01214.html (8,964 bytes)
- 5. Re: MGB spin on filter alignment? (score: 1)
- Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 07:31:31 -0800
- Quick answer - you installed a defective filter! Every so often we encounter the same thing, where a filter has been damaged during manufacture (presumably by the tool that cuts the threads). You sho
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01215.html (8,943 bytes)
- 6. Re: MGB spin on filter alignment? (score: 1)
- Author: miker15@juno.com
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:50:59 EST
- Agreed this can happen Lawrie - but i have seen at least two instances of the centre tube being out of alignment and causing the same situation As an illustration, this summer i took 2 hours to remov
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01227.html (7,885 bytes)
- 7. Re: MGB spin on filter alignment? (score: 1)
- Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 19:15:13 -0800
- Mike....you're quite right, of course, (and I note Larry Macy pointed out the same possibility shortly after I replied this morning). However, I work on the assumption that people working on their ca
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01253.html (9,209 bytes)
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