[Tigers] Oil Filter Option

Thu Sep 28 15:41:29 MDT 2017

If you are looking for OEM appearance disregard this post...  If you want Oil Filter reliability look into the right angle adapter from FORD.  It was used on their E150  vans...  Fits a Tiger nicely and is an excellent replacement for the stock set up...  My two bits...

Rob

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:31:31 -0700
From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: "Tiger List" <tigers at autox.team.net>, "'Gary Winblad'"
	<garywinblad at comcast.net>, "'Sandy'" <sganz at pacbell.net>
Subject: [Tigers] My Tiger and I are in an Epic Struggle...
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Seems like everything I touch on the car develops some kind of issue.  I got
it running with the old Ford Carb and even with a rebuild kit, the accel
pump failed. So Put on an old Holley 2bbl race carb I had lying about and
like the Ford carb refused to play nicely. After the rebuild, and it had sat
for a long while so I took great care in the rebuild, it failed to stop the
fuel flow when the bowl was full.  Interspersed with this was a honey do
project of re-grouting some floor tile joints.  We live on an old lake bed
and even with an artificial alluvial fan to build on, floors and concrete
still cracks. Life in the desert.  But back to the carb. I swapped a pile of
needle and seats into that carb and nothing worked, but this morning I
surfed onto a fix it page for Holley carbs and found the solution. Well, not
quite but close. It had to be the needle and seat even though I tried
several. So off with the carb! Remove the fuel bowl and holy cow. The float
would touch the top of the bowl and still not shut off the fuel. After
staring at it for maybe 10 seconds, I decided that the float arm had somehow
become bent. Adjusted the arm to put the float into a "basic" starting
position, and then screwed in the needle and seat. This time it could touch
the float arm and actually worked! Another holy cow! Turned the bowl upside
down to let the float close the needle and blew into the inlet and I turned
blue trying. No leaky.. all back together and it works. But, the car won't
let me win quite yet. It is getting way too much fuel now. Dang. So I
decided that I need some new main jets.  Now I need to remove the carb again
and remove the bowl and remove the jets and see that number they are. Then
will get some a couple of sizes smaller and them maybe one more set 1 size
smaller than those.  As it turns out, the car has mostly spent it's entire
life within the near confines of sea level. I tis not at sea level now. 2700
feet up so I guess I should have anticipated that. But I am an EFI kinda guy
now, lol. SO I missed that.  I have a complete EFI set up that may inhabit
the engine compartment soon, lol. So while messing with starting and
fiddling with the car, I noticed a growing puddle of oil on the shop floor.
Wha?  SO I started looking around by the oil filter, it is the OEM stock set
up, and found that the hose that connects to the oil filter aluminum piece
underneath side is very oily. I suspect that it has s**t the bed. Another
little gotcha. Now I ask, any of you folk replaced the OEM lines with
braided SS lines? If so were you able to find adapters for the block fitting
from inverted flare to AN sizes? I like that OEM block adapter because I tis
so flat and skinny. Race car has a Canton unit that I ground a lot off of
and made an plate that bolts onto the head to hold the oil filter adapter
there. So I could steal that, but I'd rather have as much OEM as I can
without overspending the national debt. 

Any help from you all on what you did to solve this issue? 

And then there is the soon to happen install of rack booties. Watched a vid
on how to do that without removing the tie rod ends from the rack tie rods.
Was actually a very  slick process. 

Anyway, hope ya'll  have some ideas and experiences with oil filter hoses,
adapters and such. Listening for ya.

mayf

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:00:24 -0700
From: Gary Winblad <garywinblad at comcast.net>
To: Larry Mayfield <drmayf at mayfco.com>, Tiger List
	<tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] My Tiger and I are in an Epic Struggle...
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On 9/27/2017 5:31 PM, Larry Mayfield wrote:
> Now I ask, any of you folk replaced the OEM lines with braided SS 
> lines? If so were you able to find adapters for the block fitting from 
> inverted flare to AN sizes?

Can't help except to say that Paul Reisentz did mine.? He braised on 
some adapters.? Looks good and works fine.? Yeah, the stock block 
adapter is nice and thin.
Gary

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:16:08 -0300
From: Dave Munroe <dave at munroe.ca>
To: Gary Winblad <garywinblad at comcast.net>
Cc: Tiger List <tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] My Tiger and I are in an Epic Struggle...
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Larry, early on in my life with my Tiger the Holly 600cfm 4 barrel carb
acted exactly like you describe. After a rebuild, new needle and seat(s)
and much frustration, I checked the fuel pump pressure at the carb - it was
producing 12 psi. Way too much for the Holly. I replaced the pump with a
new one making 6 psi and it has been working like a champ for the last15
years and some 25,000 miles.

Might check your fuel pressure.....

Dave

On 27 September 2017 at 22:00, Gary Winblad via Tigers <
tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

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> On 9/27/2017 5:31 PM, Larry Mayfield wrote:
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>> Now I ask, any of you folk replaced the OEM lines with braided SS lines?
>> If so were you able to find adapters for the block fitting from inverted
>> flare to AN sizes?
>>
>
> Can't help except to say that Paul Reisentz did mine.  He braised on some
> adapters.  Looks good and works fine.  Yeah, the stock block adapter is
> nice and thin.
> Gary
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