[AT] Tractor oil filters

Al Jones farmallsupera1 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 07:49:25 PDT 2016


Allis Chalmers B and similar had to be some of the first ones I would
think......that was 1938.

Al

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:
> My tractor has a spin on filter and it's a late 50s ford 861.   Does anyone know who was the first tractor manufacturer to use them?  Every antique tractor I have owned had the bypass canister type.
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> By the way; I say "late 50s" because my serial number is under the battery tray and over the years battery leakage has obscured it.  You can't read it but I believe there are enough "features" that a really clever way of bringing the numbers into relief would make it readable.   Anyone know of any such clever methods?
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> Spencer Yost
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> Spencer Yost
>>> On Oct 2, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Don Bowen <don.bowen at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>> On 10/1/2016 11:18 PM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
>>> My EcoDiesel has a filter like this also, except it has a manual drain valve that you activate by pushing down on the spring loaded valve with a screwdriver to drain the oil from the filter housing. Bit of a pain to feel around and try to punch the drain valve, but still better than dripping oil on everything.
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>> My Toyota Tundra has a similar arrangement.  You first remove a drain
>> plug under the filter then push a plastic tool in the drain plug opening
>> to drain the filter housing.  The tool is included with the filter along
>> with two O-rings.
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>> Don Bowen  --  AD0NB mobile
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