VW added oil filters with the type 4 pancake motors with them being used in
the busses starting in 1972. They didn't go to the hydraulic lifters until
the 1977 model year. They type 4 still had a removable inlet screen that
could be serviced at every oil change.

Dennis

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Tom Hargrave
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tell you BTW

Replaceable oil filters came in with hydraulic lifters. Before then all VWs
had only cleanable pickup screens to filter out the "big stuff".

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Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 10:02 PM
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Subject: Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off Why, I'll
tell you BTW

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 . . .

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