Re: IML: 1960 torqueflite In Line Filters

[PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx>]

Phil may be correct on this. I don't remember ever seeing a tremendous 
amount of fluid drip from those lines while doing radiator work. It may 
only flow when the car is running and drain back after its shut down. I 
still think you should check it out, but there might not be anything 
wrong.

Paul W.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob van der Es <R.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:15 am
Subject: Re: IML: 1960 torqueflite In Line Filters


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> 
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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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