I must have had a brain fart. The oil line is the inlet to the pump, so
the oil goes from the sump, through the screen, and is picked up by the
pump.
A better description of the screen is sort of a half sphere with a hole
in it that fits the oil pickup line. The open side of the sphere is
closed off with a plate. Oil flows in through the screen, then is sucked
up by the pump.
My mind is like a steel trap....rusted!
Peace,
Pat
Thusly spake Pat Horne:
> The air cooled VW engines had a filter screen as an oil filter. I
> don't see how it could have been anything centrifugal, the oil came
> straight down at the middle of the filter screen and the other side of
> the screen was open to the sump. The screen was sort of dome shaped
> and the oil inlet entered the top of the dome.
>
> It's been decades since I had one apart, but that's how I remember it.
>
> Peace,
> Pat
>
> Thusly spake Randall:
>>> *No oil filter on a '74 VW Beetle.*
>>>
>>
>> Didn't they have that weird centrifugal thing, though ? I've only read
>> about Beetle motors, but my old Honda 4-stroke motorcycle had a
>> centrifugal
>> filter. Seemed to work pretty good, judging by the amount of crud that
>> built up in it.
>>
>> Randall
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