[Healeys] Filter(s) for Spin-on adapter

[Norman Nock]

  Gary ... Check page 16 in our Rare and Hard to Find
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--- Awgertoo at aol.com wrote:

> Gary--
>  
> I use the K&N 2009 filter on all my cars.
>  
> Today I started up the rebuilt MGA engine for the
> Elva--a friend  was 
> checking and setting the timing as I sat in the car
> keeping the revs  steady--all of 
> a sudden the OP light came on and I shut down
> instantly.   The brass adaptor 
> bolt which is part of the Moss spin-on oil filter
> kit sheared  at its small 
> diameter, blowing off the filter and spraying oil
> everywhere. 
>  
> When I installed the part I choked up on the ratchet
> handle  so I would not 
> apply too much torque.  Nevertheless it came 
> apart--Moss is sending a 
> replacement but that might have been at least a 
> mess for cars behind me and at most a 
> blown engine had it happened on the  track.  I am
> writing them to suggest 
> that they have the part  machined out of steel
> rather than brass.  
>  
> Best--Michael 
>  
>  
> In a message dated 4/26/2008 2:33:02 P.M. Eastern
> Daylight Time,  
> Editorgary at aol.com writes:
> 
> I've got  a Smitty spin-on oil filter adapter on my
> BN7 (which I assume is 
> pretty  much the same spec as the standard spin-on
> adapter as sold by Moss), 
> and  
> can't remember the brand and number of the correct
> filter. (The one on the  
> engine is completely black, and must have had a
> removable label when I  
> installed 
> it, since it has no indication of either brand or 
> number.)
> Can anyone help? Email me directly if you do, since
> I only get the  digest.
> 
> Cheers
> Gary