You can reduce (not eliminate) the mess with the "on top" adapter if you use a
filter such as the 3517857-3 filter available from all Volvo dealers to fit
Volvos from 1962 and later. This filter has an internal check valve which
minimizes the run back. Besides making less of a mess when you change it, the
filtered out crud doesn't run back into the crankcase when you shut off the
engine. If I wrap a bunch of rags around the base and then sop up the oil
that's
left in the adapter, I make very little mess. Besides, MGs and clean garage
floors don't go together.
Elliott DeGraff
2 71Bs and a 72B
Charles & Peggy Robinson wrote:
> I have the hanging adapter in my '69 B. It's a PITA to get at and it
> still makes a mess. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd swap it out for the
> inverted one or put the cannister type back on.
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