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Customer install to his '91 Buick V6
February 9, 2009
This was a fun project as I had some changes to make under the hood to make this setup fit including removing the safety mesh covering the in-front-of-the-radiator-fan, the power-steering cooler and the horns, as well. Altogether it makes quite a nice installation and easy to see.
I have shown you the various positions and the clearances that were tight, but the hood still closes and I only had to bend the secondary hood safety latch and it all blended. I made my own swivel-fitting on the oil filler cap and had hydraulic hoses fabricated with the high-pressure fittings to allow maximum swiveling for the mountings. The plate behind the filters mounted in tandem is made of ¼” x 4” flat bar about 12” long which would change with different set-ups. You can see the white plate behind the big plate that is sandwiched over a support bracket for the fan assembly. I tapped all the holes where I could to make for easier installations and no hard-reaching to try and hold a nut(s) in place.
The adapter-fitting I got from you worked quite well and you can see that I used a lot of zip-ties for holding things in place and not allow any hot-contacting of the hoses. I carefully tried to carefully place the zip-ties because when you snip them off at the ends, they become like surgical scalpels and they do hurt.
The transmission-filter-fitting, is one I copied from an old Frantz® drawing that I had.! I would fabricate it differently in the future as the two fittings that are side-by-side are too-close together, if one wanted to use 90-degree fittings and to be able to clear each other during installation and able to have more wrench clearance when installing the hoses. The fitting that goes into the oil-cooler in the radiator requires a modification because the fittings are not off-the-shelf available to work, otherwise. Frantz used to use spacer washers into that fitting area and all I did was to cut the end of a flared pipe that would fit and make the proper seal. I could go on and on but will stop here.
Your cooperation and the site you maintain, made this job easier and that much more fun. I made two tube covers to fit the toilet paper I use for the filters and so far they are holding quite well with just a slight interference-fit. One could put some Loc-Tite® on the outside of the mounted tube/base assembly and press the new tube over it and let set and would be non-removable without heat. Hopefully this is clear to you and when you go into a manufacturing stage with plastic, the bonding could be the same. One thing I have done over the years is to change the engine-oil-filter, monthly, especially in the winter. The transmission oil filter, I change once every six-months and put it aside; I then remove the engine-oil-filter and replace it with the used transmission filter, still in the same can and a new already-packed toilet-paper filter on the transmission unit.
This works quite well and adds some extra detergent to the engine. Being that the transmission doesn’t get contaminated like engine oil, the oil from the transmission is still quite clean even though it has been filtered over the months but almost as clean as it came out of the can. I did this with several cars and trucks over the years and never had a problem. By the way, I have several replacement cans, already-filled with toilet-paper so the change can be made quickly and easily and the old paper removed, later.
Looking forward to hearing from you, soon.
Sincerely yours,
George Sprotte
Kalispell, MT
George has agreed to respond to inquiries including photos of his installation. Contact him via me at Crest25@verizon.net.
Ed Greany
Frantz Oil Filters
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