Re: IML: 1960 torqueflite In Line Filters

[PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx>]

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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