OK, don't laugh... I changed my fluids yesterday and it turned out to be a
fiasco. Oil went fine. Hard to screw that up. Dropped the tranny pan and I
am glad I did. There was the typical metallic at the bottom like all
new/rebuilt trannys do. Got it all cleaned up and ready to go back together
w/a FRAM FT-1019 filter kit ($27... proud of 'em, ain't they?). Old one came
right out w/the o-ring. Looks same as new except it has copper inlet and
outlets. Much nicer than the FRAM.
OK, put the o-ring on FRAM and hmmm.... won't seem to go in. Got the
caliper out and mic'ed the inlet. Bit bigger (not bad only a few
thousandths) so I filed and emery clothed it. Worked on it for 2 hours and
still could not get that thing up there. Every so often I'd put the old one
back in just to be sure I wasn't loosing my mind and every time it would
slip right in place. I even went and got another filter from some off the
wall mfgr. It was bigger yet so it was worse. Put it right back in the box
for return.
Finally as night fell I decided to put the old one back (yuk) and button
it up so I could clean up the mess. My question is does anyone know the Mfgr
of the copper tube filters? My next step is to goto some of the trans shops
(Aamco, etc) here locally and ask them. Anyone had this silly problem before
or is it simply my luck running true to form of late?
Nate '75GB (Strained but not filtered) Omaha
fiasco. Oil went fine. Hard to screw that up. Dropped the tranny pan and I
am glad I did. There was the typical metallic at the bottom like all
new/rebuilt trannys do. Got it all cleaned up and ready to go back together
w/a FRAM FT-1019 filter kit ($27... proud of 'em, ain't they?). Old one came
right out w/the o-ring. Looks same as new except it has copper inlet and
outlets. Much nicer than the FRAM.
OK, put the o-ring on FRAM and hmmm.... won't seem to go in. Got the
caliper out and mic'ed the inlet. Bit bigger (not bad only a few
thousandths) so I filed and emery clothed it. Worked on it for 2 hours and
still could not get that thing up there. Every so often I'd put the old one
back in just to be sure I wasn't loosing my mind and every time it would
slip right in place. I even went and got another filter from some off the
wall mfgr. It was bigger yet so it was worse. Put it right back in the box
for return.
Finally as night fell I decided to put the old one back (yuk) and button
it up so I could clean up the mess. My question is does anyone know the Mfgr
of the copper tube filters? My next step is to goto some of the trans shops
(Aamco, etc) here locally and ask them. Anyone had this silly problem before
or is it simply my luck running true to form of late?
Nate '75GB (Strained but not filtered) Omaha
