countryguy53
Daily Driver
i just got my engine out and found the hole in the oil filter screen was blocked with gunk that came off the pan because i changed the oil on a regular basis. I picked up this car with 65k on it and now its got 80k i changed the oil regularly but didn't drop the pan when i first got it, as a result the sludge in the bottom of the pan up about 4in was clean as a whistle. and now i get to go completely thru it, fortunately i have two x's so spare parts aren't a problem but i get to drop two engines instead of one. I did order a new oil pump before i got to the old one and the new pump is a duplicate of the old one (same 1in hold in the cover) This doesn't seem to me to be a very good idea to have the restriction in the housing. Any others ran into the same problem? BTW are there any good machine shops in the seattle area who know x engines its a 85 FI 1500 thanks Gene