Oil Pressure Gauge and Engine death

"Steve" > wrote in message
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> Chas Hurst wrote:
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> > I don't eat Cornflakes, but you can put whatever you like on yours.
> > Jokes are universally recognized as humorous,

Gosh...is he dense?

Cutting open the old oil filter to look for metal is a great way to
check the engine internals. You need to buy a cutter with blade
wheels because a hacksaw or similar will obviously make so much metal
debris as to render the inspection useless.

Don

Don wrote:
> Cutting open the old oil filter to look for metal is a great way to
> check the engine internals. You need to buy a cutter with blade
> wheels because a hacksaw or similar will obviously make so much metal
> debris as to render the inspection useless.
>
> Don

Not really. I just hacksawed a filter open last weekend as I changed
the oil for the first time since I got my '55 coupe running. The metal
chips from the cutting operation were localized to the bottom of the
filter where I cut, so I just looked at the other end of the media.

That said, I am thinking of buying a cutter, just because it's a PITA to
hacksaw through an oily round metal thing. I have a
replaceable-cartridge type filter on my other older car so that one is
easy to inspect, I just cut the cartridge open with a knife.

nate

(didn't notice anything unusual, other than a mess of nasty black
sludginess, which I expected...)

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