The bypass spring in my oil filter mount is bad. Can I do away with the bypass hole tig welding it shut or try to find a new spring and rebuild it?
I'm sure they put the spring in there for a reason, every time that I've left something out figuring that's not necessary it came back to bite me.
Holy crap!! Dude, springs are cheap and easy to find, put a new spring in it. The bypass is there for a reason, if the filter gets plugged and the pressure differential across the inlet and outlet gets too great the bypass opens up to allow oil around the element, so that your bearings don't starve!!! Don't tig weld it closed! Put a new spring in it, (you have to match it up so the pressure is the same) or replace the entire assembly if you can't find a correct spring, but don't weld it closed.
Not sure on the Milodon and its application but most oil filters have the bypass and none of my remotes have anything but the 2 holes. You should look up the AC PF-7 filter and see what it is or was. Good luck.
Probably the safest thing to do is get a new filter mount unless I can a find a filter with a bypass. I would replace the spring but it would just a guess on what pressure the new spring would open. I was just hoping someone had a miracle cure.
Why not contact Milodon? http://www.milodon.com/company/contact.asp Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I've always plugged them for oval track builds yet, I do run them on my drivers. I presume somehow before the days of oil filters, ex. like a babbit 235 six I'd rebuilt, stuff lasted for a while back then, with all the dirt road dust & metallic particulates scratching the bearing shells & cylinder bores. That being said, I believe above something like 5 psi, in many oil filter systems the bypass opens & lets the "dirty stuff" bypass the filter & sends some of it through the whole shabang. Flux.
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