I had owned my TR4A for years and had no problems with the original canister
style filter. I had heard horror stories from others about getting the
thing to seal after an oil change, but it always worked just fine for me.
But then I decided to mess with things... I bought one of the spin on
adapters and fought with it for about a year. Seemed like it was always
leaking. I actually had a filter spin completely loose while I was driving
down the road!
Finally I just took the thing off, dug out the old canister filter housing
and installed it. First try, no leaks. What a relief it was to get that
thing off the car!
Somewhere, in some box or another, I've got one of these adapter
thingamabobs I'd be willing to sell you... Not sure why I didn't just throw
it away when I had the chance.
my $0.02
--Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: David Dressel [mailto:daviddressel@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 6:22 PM
To: david.brister@wanadoo.fr; triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: spin on oil filter adapter.
I have had every possible type of problem with spin-on oil filter adaptors,
so let me take a crack at this.
David Dressel
Champaign, IL USA
'67 Jaguar Mk2 3.4 P180773
'64 Triumph TR4 CT30061
'60 Triumph TR3A TS76829
>From: "David Brister" <david.brister@wanadoo.fr>
>Reply-To: "David Brister" <david.brister@wanadoo.fr>
>To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: spin on oil filter adapter.
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:18:34 +0200
>
>Gentle listerati can anyone shed light?
>
>My TR4A now lives in a subterannean garage and it is preferable that I
>don't
>spill too much oil on the floor when doing an oil change, so I thought a
>spin on oil filter adapter might be a Good Thing.
>
>Having bought TT10861 oil filter spin on adapter from Moss I am unable to
>make it fit. It seems that my bolt with the female thread which holds the
>long bolt retaining the filter canister is not long enough. Or perhaps
>the
>thread on the kit spigot is not long enough? Either way the only way I can
>use this thing is to fit the spigot above the spin on canister, and I am
>quite sure this is wrong and I will not get the oil flowing through the
>filter.
>
>Anyway the instructions seem incomprehensible to me.
>
>Anyone else had this problem?
>
>David Brister.
>1967 TR4A
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