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Re: Oil drainback

To: RWM <RWM@rwmann.com>, Roadster List
Subject: Re: Oil drainback
From: Scott Occhiuto <calabria1922@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:50:51 -0800 (PST)
Hi Bob/Gary/List,

To prevent oil drainback out of the filter, would
installing a remote filter system, with the filter
base being up rather than down, prevent this?

If so, has anyone else done that and found it cured
the problem?

Thanks!

Scott.

--- RWM <RWM@RWMann.com> wrote:
> Gary,
> 
> I get the same thing and it also occurs within 30
> minutes or so in the summer when the engine is very
> hot (and oil thins out).
> 
> Since drainback also occurs through/by the pump
> lobes (depending on clearances), I don't know if
> sealing the drainback tube would make much of a
> difference.  I bit of permatex presumably couldn't
> hurt unless it started floating free in smaller oil
> passages.
> 
> - Bob Mann
> 
> Gary Boone wrote:
> 
> > I removed the oil filter the other day after the
> engine hadn't been started since about October and
> found the oil filter empty.  I thought I had
> redundant features to prevent oil drainback but
> apparently neither one are effective.  I have the
> anti-drainback tube and a supposed good
> anti-drainback valve built into the oil filter,
> which is a Purolator Pure One.  Is anyone else
> experiencing the same thing after winter dormancy? 
> Is it necessary to use a sealant on the
> anti-drainback tube?
> > Thanks for any feedback.
> > Gary
> 


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