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

[J R Read]

It happens from time to time.  All you have to do is look at the top of each 
filter after you remove it to be sure nothing got left behind.
Later, JR

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>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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