[AT] Chevy Astro

[charlie hill]

Farmer,   You might very well know about the pre-filter George mentioned but 
I can't help visualizing you, reading Georges's post and saying..... "so 
that's what that thing I found in the drain pan was".

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at toast.net>
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Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Chevy Astro


>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
>> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Francis Robinson
>> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:00 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: RE: [AT] Chevy Astro
>>
>> "Trying" to work on later model (after mid 1980's) stuff really
>> makes you
>> appreciate how easy it is to work on our old tractors. Years ago I drove 
>> a
>> 1969 Mercedes 240-D. Gee, that thing was easy to work on.
>
> Sorry, Farmer, but it sounds like you never changed the 240-D oil filter. 
> I
> owned sever that I had to rebuild because of that difficulty.  The filter
> element goes in the can and then the old pre-filter goes in after it. 
> Both
> must be in place for the filter to work.  Then it has to go up through the
> suspension, around the corner, and be blindly screwed in place.  The next
> unsuspecting guy reaches up through the suspension to remove the filter 
> and
> with the black inky oil running up his arm never notices the little
> pre-filter falling in the drain pan.  From that time forward the engine is
> running with a non-operating filter.  That kills the poor little diesel. 
> :-(
>
> I still have the special tooling used to adjust the transmissions and 
> other
> tooling.  The dealer used to borrow mine.
>
> George Willer
>
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