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• oil filters
  Historical mailing list - Woody Halsey
  Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:08:10 -0400
  Dear List, What do we think of "Hastings" oil filters? Which is the best for vanagons? Thnx, Woody
• Oil Filter Magnets
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:00:23 -0500
  Anyone had any experience with these? The idea is that they increase the filter's effectiveness at removing nasy metal bits from your oil...
• Re: Bus Depot SPAM, again!
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0500
  ...oil filter supplier to Volkswagen. They do not even make this particular oil filter. If you read the box you will see that it...
• Re: Needed - EV Oil Filters
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:08:54 -0800
  ...I've been using the above filter (as well as the OEM filter) for my oil changes and I've been pretty happy w...
• Re: Another Synthetic Oil Question
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:56:25 -0600
  ...vehicles the oil filter usually is in a position where when it is removed no oil will drain except from the filter itself depending...
• Re: Ooops I meant oil filter...
  Historical mailing list - Michael Moery
  Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:26:28 -0900
  ...Ooops I meant oil filter... On 1 Nov 2001 at 12:08, Evil Pig wrote: > Sorry folks this was supposed to be on the...
• Re: My First Oil Filter Failure/Bosch
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Thu, 20 May 1999 13:08:51 -0700
  The German Oil Filter Study is now up: http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/minimopar/oilfilterstudy-german.html Paul Albert wrote: > > >Where does Bosch fit...
• Re: Oil filter & armrest questions
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:01:08 -0700
  ...What do you consider the 'ultimate filter' for extended intervals with synthetic oil on the WBX? Cya, Robert On 4/24/08, Dennis Haynes...
• Re: K & N Recharger
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:48:54 -0600
  >The K&N Filter is an oiled cloth type filter. The >recharger kit you mentioned is a cleaning and >re-oiling kit. The AIR...
• Re: Ooops I meant oil filter...
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:17:45 -0800
  On 1 Nov 2001 at 12:08, Evil Pig wrote: > Sorry folks this was supposed to be on the > oil filter issue > > > > Not quite...
• Re: Oil pressure Light and appropriate oil filter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:02:07 +0000
  ...Oil pressure Light and appropriate oil filter To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Frank, > > If the Hengst H14W04 filter you are using, and selling to...
• Re: 2 year/30,000km oil filter
  Historical mailing list - zolo
  Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:19:31 -0800
  ...2 year/30,000km oil filter Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:43:21 -0800 >well today I finally got around to doing what...
• oil filters
  Historical mailing list - len alcamo
  Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:43:22 -0500
  The engine, 2.0L is ready to be installed this weekend finally! I wonder if I can use a larger oil filter then whats...
• Oil Filters and Oil Pressure
  Historical mailing list - Dave Nadeau
  Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:46:56 -0700
  Well, thanks to everyone for the information that you've sent me privately about oil filters. The links and advice were fantastic. I didn...
• Re: Oil filter Coolers......just more snake oil?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:14:25 -0400
  ...Oil filter Coolers......just more snake oil? Hey does anyone know if these oil filter coolers really make a difference? product link: http://www...
• Re: Motor Oil (Synthetic)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:56:13 -0500
  ...Motor Oil (Synthetic) Dennis - I have an 82 Diesel and have purchased MANN oil filters for my next few changes. I noticed you mentioned...
• Re: Anti-Drain Back Valve in Oil Filters??
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 2 May 2005 18:55:53 -0400
  The Vanagon oil filter does have a one way valve and a bypass. The diaphragm type thing at the top prevents oil from flowing...
• Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off Why, I'll tell you
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:47:57 -0500
  ...That high oil pressure was gonna blow > out something, I'm just glad that it was a $6 oil filter. Otherwise, > $75 for the...
• Re: Oil filters
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:36:36 -0500
  ...Others may recommend different/better oils, but don't let anyone talk you into a purolator filter or any other filter besides a Mann...
• Oil Filters - What are the differences? Do they matter?
  Historical mailing list - Kevin J. Turinsky
  Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:26:53 -0900
  ...So, about those OIL FILTERS. I checked the archive and it seems there is a slight consensus toward the OEM filters. However, I couldn...
• Re: VW discontinued 1.9 oil filters?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:09:38 -0400
  > I think you can use the Mann/Mahle oil filter for 2.1 engine... yes? Yes you can. Both the Mann and the Mahle...
• Re: Oil Filters
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:45:44 -0400
  I highly doubt that this filter is your oil pressure trouble. I have have run Purolator filters on all my Vanagons and have never...
• Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] YIKE! Lost 3 qts oil in 30 sec, messy eng. compartment...
  Historical mailing list - Gary, San Diego
  Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:24:53 -0700
  Large amounts of oil? Concentrated about the oil filter area? If the filter is intact, and the oil filter gasket is intact, I would...
• Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off Why, I'll tell you
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:41:07 -0800
  ...That high oil pressure was gonna blow > out something, I'm just glad that it was a $6 oil filter. Otherwise, > $75 for the...
• Re: oil pump failure? please help...
  Historical mailing list - Michael Magnani
  Tue, 21 May 2019 09:37:57 -0400
  ...Up until now, I have always pre-filled the oil filter, because that's how my dad taught me. Your comment about introducing unfiltered...
• Re: Oil filter change w/o oil change
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:27:15 -0800
  ...the filter on my 91 wbx (just did oil but > didn't like the available filter) and if so, how much oil will I...
• Re: oil leak above the oil filter.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:52:59 -0500
  <<I've developed an oil leak above the oil filter. It doesn't appear to be either of the two hoses It looks like...
• Another Synthetic Oil Question
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:57:36 -0700
  I see everyone referring to longer change intervals on the oil, but how about change interval on the filter? I recall when the synth...
• Re: Oil pressure warning buzzer on 1986L
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:37:11 -0400
  > DID you make sure that you have the right Oil filter... I have found that > this can aleiviate the problem. Many many times I...
• Re: What do I need? If 2.1 something to watch out for
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:17:36 -0800
  ...It's oily when you pull the old filter, so no need to manual apply oil to the new oil filter rubber seal. So...
• Re: oil filter for 2.1 l WBX?
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:26:57 -0500
  ...Any quality filter will do very nicely including any better part store filter. I've never ever seen an oil pressure light flicker on...
• Re: My First Oil Filter Failure
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 20 May 1999 20:45:26 +0200
  ...On the Type4 engines (aircooled bus and vanagon 72-83) the oil filter is pressurized, and the sensor sits between the filter and the...
• Re: Oil Filter
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:02:28 -0400
  ...Still using it in an ABA conversion, with diesel oil filter. Geo/ATL
• Re: Old Oil Filter Study
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:52:19 -0700
  ...So, > instead of the bypass filter filtering out the fine soot particles, oil just > flowed through and was not being cleaned any better than...
• Bosch oil filters in US not made by Bosch
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 14:21:33 -0400
  ...lastly Wix makes >filters for us. > >No real german filters...sniff sniff..sniff...;-) Just FYI regarding the previous oil filter thread. - Ron Salmon The...
• Re: 82 diesel 1.6na- Blowing out filters
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 20 Jun 2015 09:37:57 -0400
  ...Now on warming up oil pressure peaks and blows out the big Mann oil filter, spewing out the oil. Something about oil pump check...
• oil leak above the oil filter.
  Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
  Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:35:46 EDT
  Hi All, I've developed an oil leak above the oil filter. It doesn't appear to be either of the two hoses It...
• Re: Another warm up strategy
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:20:26 -0500
  ...Ether the filter was not tight enough, or more likely, the use of 20-50 in cold weahter will put the oil pressure in...
• Re: Mahle OC 28 oil filter
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:37:34 -0700
  The OC28 is the Mahle Oil Filter for your Vanagon (021 115 351A)(fits Bus 72-79, Van 80-83.5 Air Cooled). Mann...
• Re: Oil Level Lifters With Mann W 719/30 Oil Filter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 1 Mar 2015 10:00:49 -0500
  The oil filter will not hold pressure, all the check does is prevent the can and galleys from draining. You have a lifter that...
• Re: My First Oil Filter Failure
  Historical mailing list - Dominique Cormann
  Thu, 20 May 1999 22:14:56 -0400
  ...The oil filter study seems to confirm this suspicion, because he > says the vw unit is a rebadged bosch filter. The bosch filters I...
• Re: Oil filter changes on diesels?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:22:35 -0800
  ...Oil filter changes on diesels? > >> From looking at pictures of the filter orientation on diesel Vanagons, it > appears that changing the oil filter would...
• Re: Oil Filter performance-Oil Testing
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 7 Nov 2007 00:33:25 -0500
  ...Oil Filter performance Dennis: If you have time, could you tutor us mortals with the oil analysis process. I've always thought that you...
• RE : Ticked Off at oil filter adaptors
  Historical mailing list - Chasteen, Jonathan M. MM3 (CVN69)
  Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:47:41 -0400
  <snip> I wish they would design a thermostatically controlled sandwich adaptor that allows oil to flow through the filter before going to the cooler...
• Re: oil filter for 2.1 l WBX?
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:00:03 +0100
  What we could need on this list, is some person that will do a similar oil filter study, and of course look closely at...
• Re: Oil Filter
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:11:52 -0500
  ...YMMV DM&FS At 06:03 PM 3/22/2012, george jannini wrote: > stick in an orange oil filter and quit worrying. > >Geo/ATL
• Re: Oil Filter performance
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:32:56 -0800
  Hi Dennis, If your interested I installed a Gulf Coast Submicronic oil filter about 10 years ago. No anaylsis personally, but the documentaion convinced...
• Re: Oil Viscosity Recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Durby Suniga
  Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:48:51 -0700
  I have also used 20/w50 oil but in regards to oil filters, Bosch or even Fram filters have worked flawlessly for me and...
• Re: My First Oil Filter Failure
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 18 May 1999 22:28:14 -0400
  ...Bosch is not an original supplier of oil filters to Volkswagen, and merely rebrands someone else's filter in order to fill out their...
• Re: Oil change intervals
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:16:27 CDT
  ...All mechanics that service cars say that oil >should be changed every 3500 miles together with the oil filter. Is this >simply providing more...
• Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] YIKE! Lost 3 qts oil in 30 sec, messy eng. compartment...
  Historical mailing list - Nate Wall
  Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:22:18 -0400
  ...Removing the oil filter did not reveal any obvious splits in filter. Filter still full of oil. Dipping my finger into filter, the oil...
• Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:25:44 -0800
  ...You need to have the valve checked. > > Also, WIX is an excellent filter. The oil filter threads were probably damaged when it was blown...
• Re: Source for remote oil filter mount or oil coolerthermostat/adaptor?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:03:32 -0500
  ...Source for remote oil filter mount or oil coolerthermostat/adaptor? Can someone recommend a good source for either a remote oil filter mount, or...
• Oil Filters
  Historical mailing list - Alfred Bagdan
  Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:32:18 -0600
  ...I have been using the cheap oil filters from Canadian Tire for years with no apparent bad effects. After joining this List this summer...
• Re: K & N Recharger
  Historical mailing list - Ian X
  Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:39:43 -0800
  Blowing the filter out with air is a sure way to ruin an engine. Once the oil is out of the filter it is...
• Re: Who makes the good air filter? (1.9l)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 5 Sep 2015 19:01:00 -0400
  ...Consider oil testing. You want to ensure that silica is not floating in the oil that the oil filter can’t handle. Dennis -----Original...
• Source for remote oil filter mount or oil cooler thermostat/adaptor?
  Historical mailing list - karl
  Mon, 31 Jan 2000 23:35:01 -0500
  Can someone recommend a good source for either a remote oil filter mount, or a thermostatic oil cooler adaptor, to fit an inline VW...
• oil filter removal tool
  Historical mailing list - Joe Lucca
  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:50:10 EST
  does anyone know of a common place to find one of these that fits the wannyvagon oil filter? joe
• Re: 2 year/30,000km oil filter
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:59:26 -0800
  ...advanced filter media that allows the increase of service intervals paralleled with better filter efficiency, especially when using synthetic oils. Both filters are also...
• Re: Oil filter Coolers......just more snake oil?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:01:18 -0400
  ...Oil filter Coolers......just more snake oil? > Hey does anyone know if these oil filter coolers > really make a difference? > product link: > http://www...