On 12/30/2015 07:11 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> Yes the wrong filter feels OK once the gasket makes contact. The noticeable
> difference is how much they wobble or sag just hanging on the threads.

Makes sense.

> The 72 bus if it had the 1.7L pancake engine had an oil filter.

Naw, it had the 1600cc dual-port. No oil filter and no particularly easy
way to install one. Man's got to change the oil every 1,500 miles. But
it was a good excuse to adjust the valves anyway.

> I am in Florida not heading back to New York until this weekend. It was 85
> today. I am not looking forward to cold weather.
> Leave the van alone and wait for spring.
>

Good advice. Gotta get me a second car . . .

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Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.