Re: TOILET PAPER OIL FILTER

From: Thomas M McHugh (tmmchugh@msn.com)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 03:53:55 PDT

JT,

I bought my In-A-Crate Jeep for $50. Then they added on the WOOD SURCHARGE
& the Jeep cost me $6000. I guess you forgot the surcharge price.

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "JTravis" <dagobert@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] TOILET PAPER OIL FILTER

> Why, Tom, don'tcya know- that's what you're supposed to use to filter the
> oil in your brand-new-in-a-crate-for-fifty-dollars surplus Army jeep!!!
> (Sorry, y'all, I just couldn't resist that one!)
> JTravis
>
> Thomas M McHugh wrote:
>
>> I would think it might be a way to make a OJT repair in an emergency. I
>> would not do it in my M38A1, even though it would fit. A filter would
>> be much cheaper than replacing the engine after it fails.
>>
>> I have never heard of such a homemade idea. That does not mean someone
>> has not tried it.
>>
>> Tom McHugh, NJ
>> 1952 M38A1
>> M-416 Trailer
>>
>> VOTE NOW FOR MVPA DIRECTORS:
>> Sven Johnson, Greg Wolanin, Al Nicholson, Jim Diaz
>> MVPA, MTA, Red Ball
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <bolton8@juno.com>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:20 PM
>> Subject: [MV] TOILET PAPER OIL FILTER
>>
>>
>>> I have been told that you can insert a complete roll of toilet paper
>>> into a jeep's oil filter assembly in place of the standard oil filter
>>> element. The cardboard roller allows the oil to pass thru while the
>>> s*it paper removes impurities.
>>>
>>> Is this for real or a Motor Pool hoax? If it is real, just how
>>> effective does it work, and in what mil-vehs would said unit work?
>>> Seems for the price of one NOS oil filter you can get two dozen rolls of
>>> toilet paper.
>>>
>>> LANCE
>>>
>>>
>>>
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