Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:01:46 -0800
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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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 BTW
Comments: To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
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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.