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. |
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