>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:40:51 -0400
>To: "Greg Solow" <gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com>
>From: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>
>Subject: Re: Bearing Problems - Help!
>
>A-series engines that use the stock location for the oil filter have to see
the filter last before the engine. You can make run a remote filter and
change the order by making up a block to fit in place of the stock oil
filter housing. You can plug the stock bypass for the oil filter, but
almost all spin-on filters have an internal bypass that can actually allow a
lot of oil past, and can be jammed open by a small bit of debris.
>
>I change the cooler after a major meltdown. The kind where you're also
changing the rods, the crank, the cam, etc...
>
>Brian
>
>
>At 02:20 AM 7/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>We always plumb our oiling systems so that the oil goes through the filter
>>before the cooler so as to prevent debris from having an chance fo getting
>>into the cooler. The Oil filter "by pass" should, of course, be blocked
>>shut so that it can not open and allow debris to "by pass" the filter
>>element.
>>
>>Regards, Greg Solow
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Malcolm Cox <malcox@napanet.net>
>>To: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 10:27 PM
>>Subject: Re: Bearing Problems - Help!
>>
>>
>>> > I'm presuming that you've replaced the oil cooler and lines after each
>>> > blow-up. That's one part of racing I really and truly hate - throwing
>>out
>>> a
>>> > perfectly good, virtually brand new oil cooler because you never really
>>> can
>>> > get all the crap out of it
>>>
>>> I have heard this advice before, but now I have to ask.
>>> If the oil passes through the oil filter after passing through the oil
>>> cooler, why do you care about the odd particle or flake getting released
>>> from the oil cooler innards.? Wont it get trapped in the oil filter?
>>> My knowledge is quite narrow, but it seems that all the wet sump BMC
>>engines
>>> I have seen are plumbed this way.
>>> Malcolm (getting nervous now) Cox
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
Brian Evans
Director, Global Sales
UUNET, An MCI WorldCom Company
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