Tom,
I certainly hope they are interchangeable, because I put the straight
one on both my 1500 and my son's 1200 engines. Both engines previously
had curved ones. I did have to modify the screen on the 1200 engine,
however.
Joe Curry
Tom O'Malley wrote:
>
> Andy writes...
>
> >Tom, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't it only the air pump
> >that prevents the earlier filters (fatter) from fitting the later cars?
> >
> >--Andy
>
> Hi Andy!
>
> Just the air pump, AFAIK. I've got the Rover/Unipart listing here
> indicating that filter number GFE121 is used for Spits from '62 to
> '74. Filter number GFE119 is for cars 1975 to 1980.
>
> While we're on the topic of oil filters, does anyone know why the pump
> itself was changed between 1974 and 1975? The description I read in
> the parts catalogs is "curved arm vrs straight arm". Does anyone
> know if they're interchangeable? Could this be related to the smaller
> filter size?
>
> Cheers!
> Tom O'Malley in Southbridge Massachusetts
> '74, '77 Spits
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