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While we're on the subject, does anyone know why, starting in '73, the drain plug was removed from the sump plate, such that you couldn't drain your oil first, then remove the plate, but rather had to drop the whole sump plate down with the sump full of oil, producing some messy fun? On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:49:35 -0600, Russ Wolfe <russw@classicvw.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 13:22, Mysterious J wrote: > > CB Performance has a couple items I was looking at, as a potentially > > better filtering solution to the stock screen: > > > > http://www.cbperformance.com/catalog.asp?ProductID=199 > > > > http://www.cbperformance.com/catalog.asp?ProductID=202 > > > > Probably not as good a going to full-flow route, but better filtration > > than the screen. I'm leaning toward the Thin Line Filter Sump setup, > > for the additional capacity. > > > Are people aware, that there are 3 different stock oil screens for > T-3's?? Depending on when your engine was built. The difference is in > the diameter of the oil suction pipe. The early one had a 12mm suction > pipe. The stock oil screen was just a rounded dome shape. The next was > 14mm diameter. Its screen was was dome shape, but with a grooved > depression in the top of the screen. The third was 16mm, and the screen > is the one with the aluminum piece in the middle, and the spring piece > inside. this spring was a relief for when the screen was plugged with > ice or sludge. > > The thing with these CB Perfpormance add-ons, do they fit your engine > and connect to the suction pipe properly. > > OH, too, I am looking for a good oil screen for my '64 Ghia. The one > that came out of it was corroded thru from sitting for 40 years with > sludge in it. I have bought a couple on line even specifiying the 14mm > one, but I still get the late model for the 16mm suction. > > -- > Russ Wolfe > '71 FB AT > '66 FB MT > '64 T34 (not running) > '65 T1 (not running) > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >