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MG MGB Technical - What Oil Fliter ??

Getting old can't remember have '77 MGB 1.8 presently has top access Hasting LF142 oil filter, Havew a agargae full of filters for life of me can't remember which are which. Anyone have a list of FRAM, Purolater etc appropriate filters. In the past have tried filters that look like, sometimes works, sometimes leak sometimes strip threads any help appreciated
Jon Levine

Jon. This is covered, in great depth, in the archives. One of the best oil filters is the Mann W917 which many of us have used for a number of years. The K&N oil filter is also good and has a projection on the top of the filter allowing a standard wrench, rather than an oil filter wrench, to be used to remove it.

Les
Les Bengtson

The NAPA filter, made by Wix, is #1068. RAY
rjm RAY

Jon-
Mann (Part # W917)
Purolator Pure One (Part # PL20081)
AC Delco (Part # PF13C)
Motorcraft (Part # FL300)
Volvo (Part # 3517857)
Wix (Part # 51362)
NAPA (Part # 1068)

But the most effective is also the easiest to install: the K&N Performance Gold Oil Filter (K&N Part # HP2004). It filters down to 2 microns!
Stephen Strange

PL20081 has been superseded by PL14670
Rob Edwards

Rob-
Thanks for the updated info! I stopped using the Purolator filters and switched the the K&N filters a few years back, and so I was unaware of the change.
Stephen Strange

Happy to help! :-)
Rob Edwards

This thread was discussed between 02/07/2012 and 07/07/2012

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