[AT] Chevy Astro

[Skip Cleveland]

The oil filter change was indeed a hard job, nothing compaired to replacing 
the  rubber bushings on top of the transmission on a 1966 240 D while still 
inb the car. After 300,000 miles, you could be expected to do that several 
times.  Come to think of it, that was the car that would run on it's own 
crankcase oil every 100,000 miles or so. I still have a picture of that pile 
around here some place.
Skip

----- 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


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>> -----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
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>> "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.
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> 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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