Planned on spending about 2 hours doing the final hose routing/installing on the remote oil filter. The first hose went on easy, 50 minutes? Looking just like I’d hoped. The second hose, not so much. The hose I brought from home was 1-1/2” too short! So had to go to Orielly’s, Ace and NAPA, second trip today for NAPA, before I found hose the right size and strong enough to work.
Then discovered the bottom fittings coming out of the oil pump were clocked wrong and the mustache bar modification that was made to allow the bar to fit around the fittings needed work. And that meant the bar had to come down, tools found to allow the bar to be further modified, reclock the fittings, and then reinstalled. Took hours!
Had to refill with oil, spin the motor with the coil disconnected to get oil into the new filter and hoses so we wouldn’t starve the bearings of oil, and finally start the engine. So it’s done, looks as good as I hoped, no leaks and hopefully we won’t have to take the mustache bar down ever again.
The next step is to start driving the bus. A lot! Need 500 miles of break in before we can declare victory. And it’s now ready to go. Well, it’s still up on the Jack stands I had to put under it today to work on it and was just too tired to remove them when I was done about 3:30 this afternoon.
Maybe someone has a spare front driver seat we can temporarily use until our beautiful newly reupholstered seats are ready? Let me know and I’ll meet you at Russell’s and we can get it installed…. Thanks.
Author: John Manning
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