Oil Filters.. and stuff.

[M@H]

Hi All.

So I booked monday and tuesday off to give me a 4 day weekend to get the S from under the Tarpaulin and onto the road.. (it hasn't moved since 14th July last year )

Anyway.. Saturday morning.. Change Plugs (replacing a perfectly good set of NGK's with a set of Motorcrafts (which have a tapered seat to match the head unlike the NGK's) (Note to StevePub, points gaps in Metric would be nice )

Saturday lunchtime having drained the sump (and why is there a plastic sump washer?), get the old filter off the engine (chain extractor thingy was great) and get ordered filter our of box.. doesn't look right.

So I'm now in the land described in the bible of a Standard 2.9 cologne oil filter in one hand and the shorter old filter in the other D'oh. So into the puma and an eventful afternoons filter shopping ensued:

Results.. the filter required is from a Granada with power steering as it required a shorter filter to fit the PS in the engine bay, the same filter is also used on old 2.0l Renault Meganes.

The Parts available are:

Powertrain PMFL76
Coopers Z501
Champion C106
FRAM PH2854
Motorcraft EFL-38

I've fitted the Coopers Z501 which went in really easily (and is a nice shade of blue with silver writing) but the FRAM is exactly the same just with different words in the silver writing

So anyone thinking of an oil change, these are the current option on filters. I'm sure ther are others i.e bible says someting about a DAF but these are the ones cross matched to the Motorcraft Filter.

Cheers
Matt.

P.S. Turned key after replacing the oil (Millers Full synthetic) and she fired up first time, 9 month old petrol and no battery charge! what a car
MOT yesterday.. flying colours

Only needed a few hours of the 4 days so ended up gardening instead !


>>> Edited by M@H on Wednesday 10th April 10:46

[roulli]

quote:Hi All.

Change Plugs (replacing a perfectly good set of NGK's with a set of Motorcrafts (which have a tapered seat to match the head unlike the NGK's) (Note to StevePub, points gaps in Metric would be nice )

Matt,

thought that people on this forum would swear on NGK plugs.
What does the tapered seat bring sth. in practical life.
I have 4 electrode BERU's and planned to change to grooved NGK BPR6ES until I read your note.

Cheers Patrick

[M@H]

Don't worry about it.. the NGK's I took out were working fine and I compared the overall plug depth between the two and it seemed about right.. To my non-tech background I'm sure there are no concerns, its just that Ford would have parts made to suit their own engines and the NGK's will fit a variety of Vehicles.. bung them in Anyone else got a more tech. answer ??

Cheers
Matt.

[pwissel]

it´s the oil filter from the 2,9 24v scorpio.
i´ve still one in the garage from my old s series.
i think in germany it isn´t expencive...
is it difficult to become parts for the cologne engines?!

[pwissel]

a friend from ford told me also, that the engine runs better with the original plugs...
after changing the plugs and also cleaning and justifying the air intake flap my engine does not shut down anymore whe i stop the car on a traffic light.

[roulli]

quote:
a friend from ford told me also, that the engine runs better with the original plugs...
after changing the plugs and also cleaning and justifying the air intake flap my engine does not shut down anymore whe i stop the car on a traffic light.

Peter,
what do you mean with air intake flap?
Throttle potentiometers (Drosselklappen) or the Airflow-meters (Luftmengenmesser) next to the air filter?

cheers Patrick

[shpub]

quote:(Note to StevePub, points gaps in Metric would be nice

Well if it is any consolation you will find the gap is still the same whether you measure it using the number of sweet papers, the number of pages from the latest copy of Lax Bowels or what ever...

I'll make a note for the next reprint.

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[pwissel]

quote:

quote:
a friend from ford told me also, that the engine runs better with the original plugs...
after changing the plugs and also cleaning and justifying the air intake flap my engine does not shut down anymore whe i stop the car on a traffic light.

Peter,
what do you mean with air intake flap?
Throttle potentiometers (Drosselklappen) or the Airflow-meters (Luftmengenmesser) next to the air filter?

cheers Patrick

i mean the trottle potentiometers...sorry for my bad English...

[M@H]

quote:

quote:(Note to StevePub, points gaps in Metric would be nice

Well if it is any consolation you will find the gap is still the same whether you measure it using the number of sweet papers, the number of pages from the latest copy of Lax Bowels or what ever...

I'll make a note for the next reprint.

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

I know that it just took me 10 minutes to find a calculator to convert it for my metric feeler guages

Cheers
Matt.