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Date:         Wed, 1 May 96 19:10 CDT
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From:         khooper@wsp1.wspice.com (Ken Hooper)
Subject:      Re: Is this normal? (1977 camper advice)



>>David says he cleans the screen and I can't argue with him too much.  OTOH,
>>I don't.


>All I can offer is that sometimes I do find debris in the screen.  Usually
>looks like small pieces of gasket material and other unidentifiable stuff.
>If you found any metal in there, it could serve as an early warning for
>engine trouble whereas most of us don't cut open our oil filters to see
>what they caught...


Heavy stuff will tend to fall straight down and not circulate. I pulled the
pickup tube on a watercooled I'm overhauling last weekend. It has a screen,
and the screen was 3/4 full of chunks of RTV sealant and chips of carbon.
This vehicle has a perfectly good oil filter system but that didn't save
the screen from being nearly clogged.


--Ken
  68 Westy, 71 Bus
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