The byp*** spring in my oil filter mount is bad. Can I do away with the byp*** hole tig welding it shut or try to find a new spring and rebuild it?
I'm sure they put the spring in there for a reason, every time that I've left something out figuring that's not necessary it came back to bite me.
Holy ****!! Dude, springs are cheap and easy to find, put a new spring in it. The byp*** is there for a reason, if the filter gets plugged and the pressure differential across the inlet and outlet gets too great the byp*** opens up to allow oil around the element, so that your bearings don't starve!!! Don't tig weld it closed! Put a new spring in it, (you have to match it up so the pressure is the same) or replace the entire ***embly if you can't find a correct spring, but don't weld it closed.
Not sure on the Milodon and its application but most oil filters have the byp*** and none of my remotes have anything but the 2 holes. You should look up the AC PF-7 filter and see what it is or was. Good luck.
Probably the safest thing to do is get a new filter mount unless I can a find a filter with a byp***. I would replace the spring but it would just a guess on what pressure the new spring would open. I was just hoping someone had a miracle cure.
Why not contact Milodon? http://www.milodon.com/company/contact.asp Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I've always plugged them for oval track builds yet, I do run them on my drivers. I presume somehow before the days of oil filters, ex. like a babbit 235 six I'd rebuilt, stuff lasted for a while back then, with all the dirt road dust & metallic particulates scratching the bearing shells & cylinder bores. That being said, I believe above something like 5 psi, in many oil filter systems the byp*** opens & lets the "dirty stuff" byp*** the filter & sends some of it through the whole shabang. Flux.
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