Probably like a lot of BITOG members, I too used to own an air cooled VW bug.
After all I've learned about oil, filters, etc., from this group, I remembered that unless you added an aftermarket oil filter, your air cooled VW only had a screen at the bottom of the oil pan and that's all the filtration the motor had!
I'm curious - does anyone know what the life expectancy was for these motors? With no real form of oil filtration and how wimpy the oil was in the 60's, I can't imagine it would have been realistic to expect the motor to last for more than 50K miles, was it? For those people today who run an air cooled VW without filtration (although I'll bet that's rare), I'm sure today's oil would make some difference in motor longevity but I've got to think that no filtration makes a huge difference in motor life???
Ed
After all I've learned about oil, filters, etc., from this group, I remembered that unless you added an aftermarket oil filter, your air cooled VW only had a screen at the bottom of the oil pan and that's all the filtration the motor had!
I'm curious - does anyone know what the life expectancy was for these motors? With no real form of oil filtration and how wimpy the oil was in the 60's, I can't imagine it would have been realistic to expect the motor to last for more than 50K miles, was it? For those people today who run an air cooled VW without filtration (although I'll bet that's rare), I'm sure today's oil would make some difference in motor longevity but I've got to think that no filtration makes a huge difference in motor life???
Ed