| Subject: | Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off Why,
I'll tell you BTW |
| From: | Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> |
| Date: | Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:01:46 -0800 |
On 12/30/2015 07:11 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> Yes the wrong filter feels OK once the gasket makes contact. The noticeable
> difference is how much they wobble or sag just hanging on the threads.
Makes sense.
> The 72 bus if it had the 1.7L pancake engine had an oil filter.
Naw, it had the 1600cc dual-port. No oil filter and no particularly easy
way to install one. Man's got to change the oil every 1,500 miles. But
it was a good excuse to adjust the valves anyway.
> I am in Florida not heading back to New York until this weekend. It was 85
> today. I am not looking forward to cold weather.
> Leave the van alone and wait for spring.
>
Good advice. Gotta get me a second car . . .
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.
