List, Thought you all may be interested in the
priming the filter question. Comments welcome.
Robert/YELLOW 65BJ8
--- Robert - YELLOW 65BJ8 <rnbmail@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:21:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: Robert - YELLOW 65BJ8 <rnbmail@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Six Cylinder Engine Questions.
> To: GLWilkieAlaska@aol.com
>
> Graham,
>
> When you repace the filter on a Jeep or a BMW, you
> do
> not prime the filter. And I never did on any of my
> cars before now. But, in the case of older cars
> with
> looser tolerances and clunky design it makes sense
> to
> do so if it is easy. I had thought also of the plug
> approach in the filter bowl. I may buy an old bowl,
> and have a plug welded on at a top position to make
> it
> possible. I do not like the sound of screwing
> around
> with a hole below the carbs on the opposite site of
> the block.
> Lets see, Robert/65BJ8.
>
> --- GLWilkieAlaska@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > Thanks for your message, I was starting to think
> > that due to the lack of
> > response, I had asked silly questions. (But how
> else
> > am I going to learn?)
> >
> > If anybody replies "off-list" I will pass along to
> > you any helpful advice.
> >
> > To digress momentarily, I once had an MG-TD, and
> it
> > had an oil filter priming
> > plug, right on the filter assembly; just pour oil
> in
> > the plug hole until its
> > full, put the plug back in, and it was primed.
> This
> > could be done with the
> > filter assembly bolted right on the block.
> >
> > So with that experience in mind, I suspected that
> I
> > should have been priming
> > a new oil filter element on the Healey, I just
> don't
> > know how to do it. The
> > thought of filling the filter assembly and trying
> to
> > quickly then maneuver it
> > into position, and then get the flange and gasket
> to
> > seal, and the two mounting
> > bolts tightened up, all at the same time, before
> the
> > oil comes gushing back
> > out seems so ridiculous, that surely not even the
> > British could have dreamed it
> > up.
> >
> > The idea of starting the engine and having it run
> > without oil circulation,
> > even momentarily, while a new filter element is
> > priming, just doesn't sound
> > right to me.
> >
> > I thought, when I discovered the mysterious plug
> in
> > the left side of the
> > Healey block was called "Plug, oil filter feed
> hole"
> > that this was the answer to
> > the priming riddle. I hope someone out there can
> > help me (us) with this.
> >
> > Regards, Graham.
> > HBJ8L / 32382
> >
>
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