This will show you how much I knew about Tigers when I bought mine a
few years ago. My Tiger came home with me and I tried to change the
oil and couldn't find the filter. It wasn't where it should be on a
Ford engine. I called the PO who said he broke a fitting and put a
hose connecting the two outlets on the block adapter. He said it was
never driven after that happened and the rest of the pieces where
mistakenly thrown away! His other Tiger had the same problem. An after
market remote filter unit was mounted in the left fenderwell with the
hoses running under the frame. He suggested that I do the same but
having the hoses exposed to road debris did not thrill me. So, I
bought a remote filter unit and mounted it in the usual place for a
Tiger after fabricating a mounting bracket. Two weeks later I'm
driving down the road and the oil pressure goes to zero because of a
burst hose. I shut the engine off and no damage was done but what a
mess. After that happened, I went with the small filter on the block
replacement. My suggestion is to replace the hoses with something
stronger then what comes with the kit if you go that route.
jeff
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Subject: RE: Spin on oil filter
Author: "Richard Atherton (Entex)" <a-richat@MICROSOFT.com> at INTERNET
Date: 10/25/96 08:37 AM
Just curious here, does anyone use a remote oil filter system on their
Tiger? You know the type that has a special adapted you put on the
engine in place of the filter, and two hoses that go from that adapter
up to another special cast aluminum piece that has either a single or
dual filters hanging down. These allow increasing the oil capacity by
one to 2 quarts (1qt for the extra filter + 1qt for the oil in the
hoses).
I have always liked these things, and just wondered if any Tiger owners
were using them.
Rich
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