Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:41:07 -0800
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off Why,
I'll tell you
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Okay, so can someone point me to a website that provides threading and
dimensional specs for our kinds of filters? I need a filter about the
same diameter as the stock 1.9L filter, about an inch or so shorter, to
accomodate the reduced space that the banjo fitting takes up, and has
the right threading -- whatever it is that I'm looking for.
It's been a long time since I installed the oil cooler kit. I don't
recall whether the fitting that goes between the engine and the oil
filter has its own male and female threaded bits, and whether the
sticky-out part that the filter mates with is the same threading as what
comes out of the engine. But I'm pretty sure that tencentlife
recommended the Bosch 3300 and crosses.
Anyone got an email for tencentlife?
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.
On 12/28/2015 06:22 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> The reason the filter blew off the threads is because it is the wrong
> one. The vanagon and many VW's of that error used a 3/4" thread. This
> is common to many vehicles back then especially Ford and some
> Chrysler. The filters you are using have a 20mm thread. Yes it
> almost fits but it is a very loose fit and the thread pitch is wrong.
> 20mm threads are common on many GM and some European vehicles. Now go
> get a filter at least with the correct thread.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Rocket J Squirrel
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 7:01 PM To:
> vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil
> filter right off
>
> Okay, so it's my fault, but I think I lucked out.
>
> As temperatures drop down the freezing, and below, I change my engine
> oil to 10-40, a thinner grade. But this winter I got lazy. I admit
> it, I got lazy.
>
> Well, one cold morning last week I started the van and trundled down
> the street to go downtown, and was about a 1/2 mile from home when I
> noticed that the idiot light for the oil pressure was lit. And the
> aftermarket oil pressure gauge I installed a few years ago was at
> zero. They don't share the same sender or anything so I knew it was
> serious.
>
> I pulled off the main road and got out and looked behind the van and
> sure enough, a trail of oil behind me leading up to a small puddle
> under the engine.
>
> Triple-A flatbedded the van to Gary's Ole Volks Home here in Bend,
> and after an hour he called me and said that the oil filter had plain
> blowed off.
>
> So here's what happened: at these low temperatures, I reckon that the
> thicker summer oil was as thick as pine sap -- maybe amber --
> resulting in very high oil pressure.
>
> The oil filter was not the stock one that I use. I installed a
> tencentlife oil cooler kit a few years ago, and it uses a banjo
> fitting that goes between the filter and the engine for oil send and
> receive (thermostat in there, too). The stock filter is too long to
> fit and he recommends a Bosch 3300, which I have been using.
>
> But the last time I replaced the filter, when I switched from winter
> to summer oil, the auto parts store was out of stock on the Bosch,
> and they offered the Wix. I never heard of Wix, but the guy said it
> was a good brand, so hey.
>
> Well, the mechanic was consternated by the shorter filter, said it
> was the wrong one, and that the threads looked like pipe threads. I
> picked up a new Bosch on my way over and took at look at the Wix,
> comparing it to the Bosch, and the threads in the Wix looked pretty
> poor.
>
> So I think I lucked out here. That high oil pressure was gonna blow
> out something, I'm just glad that it was a $6 oil filter. Otherwise,
> $75 for the work, nothing (other than subscription to Triple-A) for
> the tow. It could have been a lot worse.
>
> Engine sounds fine, I hope no damage was done.
>
> And what's the lesson, kids? Don't skip maintenance. And distrust Wix
> filters.
>
> -- Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, Bend,
> Ore.
>
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