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Date:         Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:34:30 -0400
Reply-To:     greentabe-vanagon@YAHOO.COM
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From:         Tabe Johnson <greentabe-vanagon@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Re-useable oil filter
Comments: To: collum@VERIZON.NET
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Mike/List,

This is a load of hokum that has been going 'round the list for a while. The only valve in any oil filter is a bypass valve which would activate itself if the filter media got too clogged to pass enough oil, for instance.

Let's see: How would a valve that kept the lifters from bleeding down work? It would apply oil pressure. Where does oil pressure come from? The oil pump. When the engine's off, the pump's off. So when the engine's off, there's no oil pressure, regardless of how many valves you have in your filter.

tabe johnson/87 westy

PS - speaking of hokum, (and I'm not trying to be aggressive - just asking the question) how is it that replacing just one of the two pneumatic rear hatch struts can cause it to fail prematurely? One strut doesn't know what the other is doing. It's just applying pressure to a piston, right?

*** cut here *** Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:58:33 -0400 From: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET> Subject: Re: Re-useable oil filter

But what about the valve in the filter that keeps the lifters from leaking down?

Mike


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