OK, I have an 80 'B which was supposedly the last year made. I have an
inverted (upside down) filter. It has an oil cooler adapter towards the
front right
of the car. Since I have not installed the oil cooler, there is nothing
connected there now.
My question is, since I have an inverted filter, AND if as stated below
B-L went back to hanging filters after a couple of years, is my upside
down filter stock, or is this something that the P.O did ??
Thanks,
Gene B.
80' B
At 12:39 PM 6/3/99 EDT, Johnmowog@aol.com wrote:
>RE: Oil filter conversions and filters:
>First off, the list is right, Frams are trash. Cut one apart sometime... or
>just feel the comparative weight vs. another filter.
> Secondly, If you value your B, GET RID of the "face up" filter
>adapter. Why? Think about this: When you shut down the car, all the oil in
>the system drains down to the sump. With the inverted filter, all the oil in
>the FILTER drains out as well. The first several seconds of your starting
>time are thus spent pumping oil into an empty filter instead of to more
>important places. Bearings and rocker assemblys are particularly offended by
>this. That's why the inverted filter got changed back to a hanging filter
>after a couple of years of this bone-headed experiment. Yes, I know that
>there are filters for this application that supposedly have a check valve to
>keep this from happening. (And Santa Claus is coming, and the government has
>your best interests at heart...) The problem with the check valve filters is
>(1) you don't know if you actually have one these days, with all the generic
>and subsitution stuff going on, and (2) If you do have one and let the car
>sit for more that a couple of hours, it empties out anyway.
>
>The cure is a choice of 2.. Either put it back to the stock hanging canister
>filter, buy the new adapter that moss has that puts the spin-on filter back
>in line with where it hung originally, instead of on an offset plate. This
>looks better anyway, and gives better access than the late-unlamented hanging
>adapters, and won't screw your motor up the way the inverted ones do. These
>bring the oil cooler line fitting back to where it used to be on the old
>converter plate that the cannister filter used. Best of all they use the same
>filter as a spin-on midget, which is also the same filter as a 2 liter BMW
>(320i). This makes high quality filters easy to find, at least if you stay
>out of Kragen and PetBoys.
>Best of Luck
>
>
>
>
> Correction:
> What I meant was "oil COOLER fittings"...
>
> >What I did was snatch the unit that holds a spin-on filter facing up from
> >a later model at a wrecking yard. It has the oil filter fittings. I have
> >been using Fram filters, I think PH8A, curiously the same one as my 67
> >Barracuda V8!
> >
>
>
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> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149 >>
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