| Author | Message | ||
     Bent_mind |
just saw a post about which oil filter to use. (AGAIN). got me thinking, does anyone remember an automotive filter that used a roll of toilet paper as the medium? you would roll off enough to fit in the housing. same time frame as being able to buy used motor oil for the cars that had an appetite. we were poor. | ||
| Birdy |
They still make those things, but it takes a whole roll now. I get the feeling that a good spin on filter does a better job. I've seen some trucks with two or three filters running side by side to filter and still keep flow high. Seemed over kill to me. | ||
| Luftkoph |
the ones you see on trucks like that, each filter, filters down to a different micron,and some are by-pass filters that only filter a small part of the oil but down to a very small micron.With a by-pass and regular oil sampling people easily go half a million miles without changing oil,just change the filters | ||
| Doz |
Toilet paper?? Nope, not in any of my stuff. Just use a quality filter and change it with every oil replacement. And use amsoil for longevity. Just my 2 cents | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Toilet paper is linty/dusty. Why would you want that floating around in your engine? | ||
| Sifo |
It's funny seeing people trying to make sense of TP filter in today's world. TP was used as one of the earliest filter. It was found superior to not running a filter at all, as had been the standard. | ||
| Daves |
I remember my Dad having filters like that. | ||
| Team_ruthless |
I've had a few people tell me about using toilet paper in place of a filter cause it just happened to be the right size. Never thought they designed a canister around a 3/4 roll of toilet paper. Of course in those days 30,000 miles was a ton of miles too. Go figure. | ||
| Etennuly |
Toilet paper is linty/dusty. Why would you want that floating around in your engine? Because in 1949 that lint made your bearings quieter!  I had an Uncle who bought a new 1950 Chevrolet. In 1960 he had yet to change the oil. It had around 60,000 miles on it. He believed in changing the filter and adding one quart of oil every 10,000 miles. Of course in those days a car could live it's entire life span and never see rpms over 1500 and speeds up to 45 mph. It was a straight six three speed. I recall my dad having said he knew for sure that it had never reached 46 mph!  I also recall hearing them talk about folks back when, who ran until the filter was clogged.....then just took it out, same with the air filter. They was poor, but damn, the filters were only a buck fifty. Of course that would mean no groceries or cigarettes for the week.  | ||
| Froggy |
Today I learned that Vern was around when cars were called "them dangfangled horseless carriage contraptions" | ||
| Bbbob |
Toilet paper was more paper than lint back then too... (Message edited by bbbob on July 27, 2012) | ||
| Buellish |
Bent_mind was but an impressionable pup in the days of TP filters and always loking for a way to recycle.  | ||
| Etennuly |
Today I learned that Vern was around when cars were called "them dangfangled horseless carriage contraptions" So what is your point......young-un?  I suppose I got to see more generational spread in my family than most. My dad was 42 when I was born and his dad was around 45 when he was born. So my grandpaw was born around 1880, Froggy. When was your grandpaw born 1960? When I was 12 years old I worked in a Studebaker dealership that had just been closed and converted to a privately owned repair shop. One cool thing I remember was that when Studebaker went out of business the last bunch of cars coming down the line had a lot of rattle problems. I watched the mechanic take beer bottles out of the doors of new cars under warranty. One that just did not run right had a cigar butt stuffed under the distributor cap. | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
Not as much generational gap here.. my dad was born in '65, his dad in '36. My grandpa ran an auto repair shop for 50 years. I remember a handful of return customers who complained of a new rattling sound.. grandpa usually found one of his missing tools in a door panel or rattling around under the hood. His first suggestion for leaky radiators was usually a can of black pepper, and it almost always worked unless the sides were split. Never did see toilet paper used for any maintenance or repairs though. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I got a fun rattle story for yah's.. My dad's first car a 1965 Dodge polara looked like this:  Anyways, At highway speed, something in the driver's side door would resonate >tiktiktiktiktiktik<. Finally, he took the door pad off to tighten up whatever the damn thing was. What he found was a length of welding rod with a ball of molten steel on one side and the other side tacked to the inside of the door's frame so the blob of steel was just barely not touching the inside of the door's outer sheetmetal. He said that looked like a "factory job" too. Factory paint was hosed over it. Funny thing is he was the second owner of the car so the previous owner must have just put up with it or something. | ||
| Azxb9r |
It was a Franz filter, they were popular in the 70s. IRC you could buy them from JCWhitney in those days. Last time I saw one was in the early 80s. | ||
| Team_ruthless |
I just ordered one for my buell. http://www.frantzoil.com/catalog/item/4746217/4787 270.htm I bought a case of the 3 dollar frantz oil filters which will be handy if I ever run out of toilet paper. Ever tried wiping with a purolator? | ||
| Team_ruthless |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmmP0TNJZ7Q&feature =youtu.be |
