Thread: Prefill Oil filters?

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How many revolutions does your engine make before it has circulated oil thru it? Depending on where your sending unit is mounted and wether or not the engine is warm. If your idle is 750 and the engine is warm and there is a 2 second delay (12.5) revolutions.
Now I have a new question. Is the oil sending unit generally on the inlet or outlet side of the filter?

outlet side. SBC's have 2 places, one at the top and one by the filter. At the top is the truer reading.

Originally Posted by sfort

How many revolutions does your engine make before it has circulated oil thru it? Depending on where your sending unit is mounted and wether or not the engine is warm. If your idle is 750 and the engine is warm and there is a 2 second delay (12.5) revolutions.
Now I have a new question. Is the oil sending unit generally on the inlet or outlet side of the filter?

Ever since basic autoshop in High school, I have always put a little oil in there(about half full so it doesn't drip out when you tilt it to put it on!) Our shop teacher, Mr. Spellenburg, would always say, lube the rubber gasget with some fresh oil, and then pour some in there on the threads!. It helps getting them off a heck of a lot easier!

Originally Posted by stovens

Ever since basic autoshop in High school, I have always put a little oil in there(about half full so it doesn't drip out when you tilt it to put it on!) Our shop teacher, Mr. Spellenburg, would always say, lube the rubber gasget with some fresh oil, and then pour some in there on the threads!. It helps getting them off a heck of a lot easier!

when i was at the boat yard they had a run of oil filters that were put on dry and very tight you would crush the can and still not get them to move the next was drive a big screw drive thru the oil filter that would rip the tin can off and not get the filter off and have oil mess in the bilge some of the engines if filter were on the block could be a real deal as you could not get close to the filter to get at it .i had one that got me so mad i thru my oil filter wrench in the river . as all it did was slip i would wear out the band typ filter wrench on some of them boat filters some would come off but the last one had two sbc and had to move one engine over to get the other one out. as the hole in the deck was in the middle of the deck and only the size for one sbc this was covered by warranty to pull the engine to get the oil filters off i allways fill the filter and alway oil the o ring . but first check there is no old O ring stuck on the block still . even if there one on the old filter