Re: [T3] Oil Capacity with full flow installed

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

On 20 Aug 00, at 19:03, Patrick Cyr wrote:

> OK, I give: I searched the archives and the net, yet nowhere did I find
> anything about whether or not the oil capacity of the car should change
> after a Berg full flow system is installed.  If I were to guess (and I did),
> I would say that the filter and tubes bring it up to 7 pints, but it is
> awful hard to know since the dipstick shows it is rediculously full when
> cold and rediculously empty when hot (my filter is mounted sideways, sadly,
> so I imagine it all runs back into the sump when it is not running).

Sitting sideways can be a problem. You might want to see if Fram 
makes an appropriate filter with a reverse flow valve. My filters sit 
about 30 deg from vertical and I just fill the system to the normal 
dipstick level, which takes a bit less than an extra quart.

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