Re: IML: 1960 torqueflite In Line Filters

["Rob van der Es" <R.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul and others that jumped in on this subject,

Thanks for the clear explanation, I definetely don't have an in-line filter 
as big as a soup can in my cooler lines :) A filter as big as that would be 
hard to overlook.

Right now, the driving season has ended for my car overhere in the cold and 
wet Netherlands. So I have all the time to think about what could be wrong, 
and the only thing I can think about are clugged cooler lines.

I hope that other torqueflite specialists (Dick B.? or Philippe) will jump 
in too, to shine a light on it.
I would like to know if a stucked regulator valve or a stucked coventor 
valve could cause the same sympthon (no fluid at the cooler lines).

But when I think about it, this might be a stupid question cause the tranny 
is shifting perfectly. I don't think it will shift correctly with one of 
those valves stucked, but since I am no expert when it comes to automatic 
transmissions I might be completely wrong here :)

I guess the oil pressure at the cooler lines is built up by either the front 
or rear pump in the tranny?
I am sure those two will be OK, since the tranny is working fine.

Anyway, I have enough time to find out before next spring arrives.

Thanks for all your help so far,

Robert

1960 Crown Southampton (in wintersleep mode)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PAUL WENTINK" <randalpark@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: IML: 1960 torqueflite In Line Filters


This filter is about the size of a soup can and should be easy to spot
in the line, about mid way between the transmission and cooler. I have
only seen this filter on 1962 and newer. The 1960 model that my parents
bought new, doesn't have one, and niether does my '60 LeBaron, or my
1956 with the same transmission. These cars may have not ever had one,
or they could have been removed at some point. If they didn't have it,
it would make sense that it began in 1962 coinciding with the redesign
of the Torqueflite.

On the car purchased new by my folks, there were things that my father,
the engineer, would change to make them the way that he thought best.
Over the last 25 years, I have been working on restoring all of his
modifcations back to the original factory spec's, and that is one I may
have missed. He had bypassed the original cooler and added an external
one, mounted under the car, not in front of the radiator, or A/C
condensor. He was convinced that nothing should ever be placed in front
of that unit, not even a bug screen. He may have been right, although
the A/C on our car stopped working in about 1964. Since I have had the
car, I have come to realize that the expansion valve failed. He
couldn't have done anything to prevent that. The external cooler was
finally removed and the original cooler reconnected after I had the
radiator rebuilt a few years back. If there had been an inline filter,
I'm sure that he would have removed it at the same time he installed
that cooler.

Any 1956 through 1961 Torqueflite owners find this filter installed in
their cooler lines?

Paul W.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob van der Es <R.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 1:01 am
Subject: Re: IML: 1960 torqueflite question



Thanks Roger!



I think you are right, I thought it was just a coupler to connect two
pieces of the cooler line.....

But this could well be an inline filter!

I will check it out as soon as the weather clears up a little, lots of
rain here at the moment you see :(



Thanks again,



Robert


----- Original Message -----

From: mopar37206@xxxxxxx

To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:48 AM

Subject: IML: 1960 torqueflite question




I believe you have an in-line filter located in the cooler lines about
halfway between the trans and the radiator. That's worth
checking/replacing.

Cheers,

Roger

Phoenix



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