T3: Re: Gene Berg ext oil filter

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On  1 Mar 98 at 6:19, Stan Schaefer wrote:

> This is a tricky install for a TIII, TIs just have the pump hanging
> out there for the world to see.  Someone was going to write up their
> experiences and post them on a web page, don't remember seeing
> anything about it since.  My experiences are that you are going to
> have to do a bunch of filing on the brass fittings to get them to
> clear the fan housing, a bunch of cutting to clearance for the cover
> on the T-bar engine mount.  I did most of my filing on the fittings,
> some guys cut a hole in the front fan housing half and seal after with
> silicone, I avoided this by careful fitting.  Don't like holes in
> critical components where they weren't originally designed. Fitting
> positioning is all. Took me most of a week's evenings.  I  don't think
> it would be wise to weaken the engine mount by clearancing enough for
> that relief cover, at least without reinforcing it, that's an awfully
> long ridge on that cover.  I just went with the standard Berg
> full-flow cover.  Take only the minimum out of that engine mount
> center hole and make sure your corners are rounded where you file the
> hole.  Busted engine mounts are no fun.  

This was a really good post with lots of well thought out advice.  
The  only thing I can add is that I have not had any trouble with a 
rear mount cross bar which has been clearanced for the Berg relief 
cover.  My engine has been this way for about 5 years, I don't baby 
the car, but I don't off-road it either.  I share the desire not to 
excessively weaken perfectly good parts, but there is lots of beef in 
the cross bar and this is just a carefull milled hole in the middle.

I have been interested in the Oberg filter, but just stuck to the 
Fram because of the expense and what appeared to be a lack of 
mounting provisions for the Oberg.  How do people mount the Oberg?

Jim
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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