Ray Block wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Terrible Tom
>>
>>Here's an odd one. I was out tinkering with Christine a little, and
>>decided to change the oil filter while I was under there. I spun it off
>>cautiously, expecting an oil bath... but nothing... looking inside the
>>filter, it was empty. Not totally bone dry, but I could see the
>>"bottom" of the filter through the hole.
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>
> Well Tom, I've noticed on my Dak that the filter is not full if the truck
> has not been run for a day or so. I've had to remove it to remove the
> tranny and always found the level to be down a little, like maybe a half
> inch or so. I just figured that was the difference between the oil being
> hot right after a drive and it being cool. I use a K&N oil filter.
> Perhaps you're using a different kind that also allows some drain back?
>
> Ray
> http://www.dragtruk.com/ENTRIES/20KM1FD2KWBP.html
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>
>
Hi Ray - this wasn't just low - there was no oil in the filter at all,
just a light residue. I could see the metal bottom of the filter
through the hole. Something I don't ever remember being able to do.
Even though the engine sat unstarted for over 3 months, theoretically,
it should not be able to do that. The oil would have had to have flowed
against gravity!
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