I bow to your knowledge. I would have never guessed that since I WROTE IT DOWN. Since you seem to have been in that garage at 2:00am 20 years ago I will bow to your knowledge that the bypass was not stuck too. We used to break in on straight 30W oil back in the "old days". I don't recall blown oil filters happeing everytime we did so. -- Mark Price Morgantown, WV 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II " Chronic Pain Hurts" -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Davis Martin <martin-davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 30 weight oil > > Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Bruce Hevner" > > I have experienced lots of customers over the years complaining of > > "ballooning" filters, blown oil filter seals and actually blowing the > > canister completely off the car leaving just the base screwed to the > > block!! > > In EVERY case it was a missing oil FILTER bypass valve!! > > Had a buddy fire up his SBC for the first time at 2:00am Monday morning in the > garage/gas station he worked at. > Blew the filter off the block! > 7 quarts of oil on the floor! > The gas station opened at 7:00am. > He had to clean the mess and get the car out of the shop before his boss saw it! > He did not sleep that night... > Problem was traced to fresh motor, straight 30W oil and a stuck bypass. > -- > Mark Price > Morgantown, WV > 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 > 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II > " Chronic Pain Hurts" > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://splatter.wps.com/pipermail/amc-list/attachments/20080315/eb5c2484/attachm > ent.htm > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list