" Just be careful when routing your oil hoses." (A J)
And be careful with the gasket between the oil filter ring and the adapter.
Nothing I read told me it needed gasket cement (yeah, I shoulda figgered
THAT out!)) and it took less than a minute to empty most of the oil from
the sump.
Smoke? Oh Hell Yes! Oil on headers. Lucky there wasn't a fire.
Tom
'67 Mark 2
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:36 PM, A. C. via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net>
wrote:
> Andy, et al,
>
> I am sorry I can't help with your specific question, but I want to point
> out a potential problem with the stock set up.
>
> I was doing about 80 on the way to work one morning when a huge cloud of
> smoke came from under the hood of my Mark 1. Scared the #@$% out of me!
> Turned out that my original rubber oil hose was laying on the u-joint of my
> steering shaft and had worn through. Oil sprayed onto the exhaust and
> created the smoke screen, but fortunately there was no fire. Just be
> careful when routing your oil hoses.
>
> Good luck,
> A. C. Tynes
> New Orleans
>
>
> On 1/12/2015 11:46 AM, awtiger--- via Tigers wrote:
>
>> Hey, guys:
>>
>> Okay...all the work I've done over the last year is about to (hopefully)
>> come to a conclusion. It looks like the motor will go back in my car
>> within a week or two!!!! I still have one question, however, and hopefully
>> you guys can shed a bit of light on this for me. I've never owned a Tiger
>> with the factory oil filter hose set up on it so I'm a bit in the dark when
>> it comes to that subject. My question is this...can the hoses and the side
>> block fittings be installed on the motor with the motor in place in the
>> car? My guess is that they probably can, but I don't want to install the
>> motor without the hoses, only to find that I've got to take it all lose
>> again and jack it around in order to get the hoses on. Can someone address
>> this for me?
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> Andy Walker
>> Edmond, OK
>> B382001600LRXFE
>> TAC #740
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