Hey gang!
If any of you remember a thread that ran sometime last year on an "Oil
Filter Adapter" for Spitfire engines, I discovered today what that was
all about.
If any of you recall, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the
subject was even raised. I knew that all Spitfire engines came from the
factory with a spin-on filter so what is up with this "adapter thread"?
Here is what I discovered:
I obtained a Rover UNIPART 1xGFE 150 filter and proceeded to change the
oil. I removed the NAPA Gold 1374 filter and started to install the
UNIPART one. To my amazement, the hole in the filter was smaller than
the one in the NAPA one. On further examination, I realized the threads
were the same as the part of the adapter that screwed into the block.
On a lark, I removed the filter from the 1300 engine I plan to install
in Tiny Tim and found that it had the same threads on both ends. So now
Huxley has a Unipart filter and I still wonder why Triumph did that.
Anybody able to lay any magic words on me to explain this?
Regards,
Joe
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