[SCG] oil filter

Tue Jun 2 16:07:27 EDT 2015

I have two of them on the shelf from swap meets.  I did not have a Corvair 
in the 60's.  They came from someplace and I'm guessing dealer stock of a 
now defunct dealership.

Later, JR

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From: "Mark Corbin via SCG-list" <scg-list at corvair.org>
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Subject: Re: [SCG] oil filter

> The factory never sold the black filters over the dealer counter. They 
> were
> strictly an in-house item, as far as I know.
>
> -Mark
>
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>
> Just wondering if a new Corvair had engine work done at the dealership
> requiring oil and filter change before Sold to a customer, I'm a summing a
> black filter would not be installed.
> Jerry
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> Mike Downey via SCG-list <scg-list at corvair.org> wrote:
>
>>I grew up in Phoenix admiring (and studying) the "Lou Grubb" blue new
>>69 Monza with 17 miles.  That car had a black oil filter on it and I
>>always wondered why since I never saw that color in the replacement 
>>market.
>>
>>The explanation below fits.
>>
>>Mike Downey
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 21:49:02 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Dusty Steinberg via
>>SCG-list <scg-list at corvair.org> writes:
>>>
>>> From what I was told by a friend that was a service writer for a
>>> large Chevrolet dealership, all engines came with the black oil
>>> filters, and the black filters were not available after 1960 for
>>> replacement stock.  The reasoning behind the black filter coming with
>>> the car, was so the dealership would know if the oil was changed.  If
>>> it had more than 3000 miles on the engine, and a black filter, they
>>> knew that it hadn't.  He said that sometime in early 1961, the black
>>> filters weren't available to the parts department, and that they were
>>> replaced by another color.  He didn't remember the color, but looking
>>> at my oil filter collection, I believe that it was a blue filter.
>>> Paul in CT
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >From: Bill Hubbell via SCG-list <scg-list at corvair.org>
>>> >Sent: Jun 1, 2015 4:53 PM
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>>> >Cc: "scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com" <scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com>
>>> >Subject: Re: [SCG] oil filter
>>> >
>>> >Pretty sure it was an AC PF-4
>>> >
>>> >Oh, wait - you mean WHICH PF-4 - as in color, etc!
>>> >
>>> >Yes, I think there was a Comminique article about this - long time
>>> ago.  I'll try to look it up when I get back home, might take awhile.
>>> If anybody else knows, please chime in.
>>> >
>>> >Bill Hubbell
>>> >
>>> >On Jun 1, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Bill Stanley via SCG-list
>>> <scg-list at corvair.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >Does anyone know what oil filter a '63 came with from the factory?
>>> Anyone know which issue of the communique might discuss this?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Thanks!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >~Bill Stanley
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