Well on my Van with a 351 H.O. my oil filter points down, when I unscrew it,
Oil spills out.
Pat 63 Spit
Atwell Haines wrote:
> At 06:34 PM 5/24/99 -0500, Patrick D. Baize wrote:
> >
> >I still won't use FRAM . I do recall a couple of times that I changed
> filters and
> >no oil spilt out of them.. On a Ford 351 the Oil filter points downward
> and when
> >taken off, spills oil everywhere. I can only attribute no oil in the
> filters on
> >those 2 occasions as check valves leaking the oil back into the oil pan.
>
> Hi Pat,
>
> Look at the descriptions of the check valves on the oil filter study
> website. Most are just nitrile rubber flaps.
>
> Seems to me that on the Ford V8s the check valves are redundant since the
> filter is 'threads up'. On the Spitfire the filter is 'threads down' and
> the oil would drain out without the valve.
>
> I'm at a loss to say why you would ever have an empty filter with the Ford
> at an oil change. I've certainly never had that on my Mustang 5.0.
>
> Atwell Haines
> '79 Spitfire
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