Re: Lubrication Filtration. Is it necessary?


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Posted by David Sherman on Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 2:21PM :

In Reply to: Re: Lubrication Filtration. Is it necessary? posted by Tom Petroff on Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 1:53PM :

My M37 didn't have an oil filter or an air filter when I got it, and the low compression shows the results. It's easy to jerry-rig a spin-on adapter you can get from any speed shop, add a handful of plumbing fittings and some copper tubing and you're good to go. Mount the filter to the engine, not to the firewall, so engine vibration and twist doesn't work the plumbing. I would definitely put a filter on it, even if it's just something temporary like this until you can find the "correct" one. I'm pretty sure the 230 is never a full-flow system, though, which means some unfiltered oil always gets pumped through the bearings. I don't know if they ever came from the factory without oil filters or not. I suspect not. When those engines were designed, just the idea of pressure lubrication (rather than splash) was still kind of high-tech.



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