Re oil filters and adapter fittings:
The first time I changed the filter on my Spit, I had a similar situation.
My problem was I didn't have a spare engine or car to swap! (Boy Joe, you
sure are lucky!)
I raced down to the local autoparts store and matched up the old filter and
fitting size. I later took the improper filter back to the Britpart place
where I bought it, and they exchanged it for a filter "kit" that had a
different adapter. So now I can use two different sizes of filters.
Confused yet? I was. But all is well, I just saved the different
adapters for use as needed...
Atwell Haines
'79 Spitfire
"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the
self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the
purpose."
At 02:08 AM 5/20/99 -0700, Phil Johnson wrote:
>
>Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>I can only add what I have found, and not completely answer the
>question:
>
>Early Spitfires (Mk1/2/3)and Heralds used to specify a filter that was
>of the type made by Teclamit that had an integral male thread on it
>that screwed into the block (shown in the factory workshop manual for
>Spitfires 1-3, Herald 1200/1250 and Vitesse, in some of the engine
>shots pg 1.116, 1.109, 1.137 etc. It is recognisable as being very
>large. Most if not all aftermarket filters used to have a female
>thread, and so some aftermarket filters used to be supplied with a
>short oil filter adapter to allow them to be fitted to cars like ours
>that did not necesarily have a male thread to screw onto.
>
>Different filter manufacturers supplied different adapters. The larger
>threaded one that Joe mentions allows the use of a different filter, a
>GFE180 I believe. It is the same thread as six cylinder spin off
>filter conversion adapter. Over the years, many filters now stopped
>supplying the adapter.
>
>The 'proper' adapter should have the same thread both sides, and is
>listed by Rimmers as part number 12G2518.
>
>Hope that this helps explain some of the reasons.
>
>==
>Phil Johnson
>Club Triumph (UK) Spitfire/GT6 Secretary
>http://www.club.triumph.org.uk/
>
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