<VV> unusual? failure? something to watch for long CORVAIR related story

[wfcc at mediacombb.net]

I wasn't going to mention this but I had the same thing happen -it was a filter that was made in Tiawan and sold through a northern U.S. parts vendor. I recently had a Harmonic balancer come apart and replaced it-when I was under the car I looked up where the oil filter bolts on and that metal plate and the outer gasket from the oil filter were still on there. If I hadn't been under the car I couldn't have seen them and it brobably would have made one hell of a mess when I put a new filter on and it wouldn't seal....
 I also has one of these same filters start to leak a few months after installation-appeared to be from the top seam.

                                  Ed Lindsay

 West Florida Corvair Club
66 A/C Corsa
UltraVans 338/407
66 Crown 283
Minnie Moore


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<SNIP> my findings are: the oil 
filter  has a metal gasket retainer plate with holes in it matching the holes in 
the top  of the filter pressed on. this plate spun a little , blocking the 
holes .so i  THINK the blockage caused the oil pump to work  very hard 
pumping thru the  bypass valves , showing real shiny wear on the distributor 
gear? due to the fact  that i paint my oil filters a semi black , and i use 2 
sources of filters , i am  not sure of the brand. not sure how that plate 
could spin , unless (i doubt it  but)  i spun it when installing it. 
this is one of several motors i built this year , but the only one i heard  
this type of noise in.
now i may look at filters on the rest of my stuff.... the trick here is  
that the pressure indicated on my test adaptabolt oil gauge i use on all of my 
 motors for the first few hours of running was perfectly normal.
i put a picture of the filter in the last issue of our newsletter.
my final words are: try not to spin the filter , just the bolt, when you  
install it.
regards, Tim  Colson                      i hope the picture works
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