Paul,
Your engine should be fitted with the spin-on filter. It is inverted, not
hanging, but the spin-on type works well. I have not heard before of the
gasket problem you mention.
The filter is not a cannister type, with a bolt running through it, is it?
Though their brackets will fit all engines, and were used on engines for a
couple of years, the inverted cannister filters are far from ideal. They have
gasket issues and, worse, about a pint of oil must be pumped up into the
filter before the bearings are supplied with any.
Take a look at Moss catalogue, Oil Filters, and see the three types on the
page.
Bob
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Paul Root <ptrmgb at gmail.com>
To: MG List <mgs at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Mgs] alternative to the inverted oil filter mount?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:07:02 -0500
I took this morning off to handle an issue with my daily driver, and since I
was in the garage, and dirty, I decided to change the oil on the MGB (77).
When I finished, and started the car to check pressure and then level, I was
getting no pressure. I look over, oil is pumping out. Pulled the oil filter,
and the rubber gasket came out of it's channel.
I have this trouble seemingly ever other year. I really dislike the inverted
filter mount. Are there alternatives? Being a 77, I have the larger starter
so
I guess an early hanging filter will not work.
Paul.
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