Re: IML: Torqueflite In Line Filters

[PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx>]

There is one in my '62, '63, & '65. I haven't looked at the '68, so I 
can say one way of the other on it.

Paul W.


-----Original Message-----
From: john sadowski <jsadowski@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:05 pm
Subject: Re: IML: 1960 torqueflite In Line Filters


That type of filter is used on the 63, I've never seen one on any other 
year Imperial. 
 
John 
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob van der Es" 
<R.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:15 PM 
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> 
> 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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