[SCG] oil filter

Tue Jun 2 18:23:34 EDT 2015

So if the black oil filters were only available from the factory on new cars and not sold to the public, how are they now in our hands?(I have 1 in my parts stash but not sure how I got it).
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301

-----Original Message-----
>From: hank kaczmarek via SCG-list <scg-list at corvair.org>
>Sent: Jun 2, 2015 3:15 PM
>To: Mark Corbin <airvair at earthlink.net>, air_cooled63 at yahoo.com, modquad at juno.com
>Cc: wrsssatty at aol.com, whubbell at verizon.net, scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com
>Subject: Re: [SCG] oil filter
>
>You're right Mark. Talked to a GM Service writer who went to Detroit in 1959 
>for the original mechanics school on the Corvair ( with Richard Jenkins of 
>the Charlotte (Queen City) club.)
>Black filters only came from the factory.  Not stocked for dealer parts 
>rooms.  For the reasons discussed here previously.
>
>Best Regards
>HANK
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Mark Corbin via SCG-list
>Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 12:19 PM
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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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>air_cooled63--- via SCG-list
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>Subject: Re: [SCG] oil filter
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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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