Thread: Prefill Oil filters?

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If easy, I would fill the filter (via the outer holes).

These are tiny engines with high oil pressure tho. Larger engines, we need to pre-fill them, prelube the motors, and blow down the cylinders before starting.

I do like the one system we have on cat gensets.... you can change the oil/fuel filter and fill it with filtered fuel while the engine is running.

A friend of mine way back in the 70's put a kill switch on his SBC Nova. He would crank the engine until the oil pressure gauge moved. Then he'd hit the kill switch which would energize the coil & electric fuel pump. I often wondered how many starters he went through?.....