Taller oil filter!!!

bertsmobile1 said:
I think your memory is failing as the hole has nothing inside for the spiggot to bottom out on.
However a lot of automotive ones do have a plate just inside the hole so sounds like you were using a wrong filter.
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I've been using these 2.14" high filters on both my 21HP Intek and my Dad's John Deere twin cylinder (26 HP ?) with no problems of bottoming out.

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I seem to think the Kohler 14HP engine that was on my Snapper had a longer stem and when I tried using the 2.14" filter the stem bottomed out against the top of the filter. Or felt like it.

I can't recall if the 2.14" filter is the "taller" one or the "shorter" one of the two.

So in other words I've got it in my mind you can use a filter from a Kohler engine on a Briggs but not necessarily a Briggs filter on a Kohler.

That's my recollection and I'm sticking too it!
 
The Briggs tall, medium & short, & the 3 Kohler filters are all the same specifications wise they are just different sizes to fit in different locations.
Ditto for Kawakasi & Honda filters although they do have a few different spigot thread sizes.

I am yet to see a mower engine suffer any ill effect from dirty oil.
However I do see a lot suffering from too little oil or oil contaminated with water or fuel.
Now I will not argue the case that no filter is just as good as having a filter but I will argue that changing the oil is far more important than the filter the oil flows through.
I see many identical engine fitted to almost identical mowers ( different brands from the same factory ) both with & without filters and am yet to see any attributal differences in the wear between the two.
I have a motorcycle that is 100 years old in a couple of years.
I ride it more hours per year than most mowers run, it has no filter and still on std bore and original bearings & bushes ( mind you some of them are a little past due for replacement ).
Most motorcycles of the 50's & 60's had next to no external filters, ran around 10:1 compression, did 6,000 to 10,000 rpm and ran quite fine, provided you change the oil.
 
bertsmobile1 said:
I have a motorcycle that is 100 years old in a couple of years.
I ride it more hours per year than most mowers run, it has no filter and still on std bore and original bearings & bushes ( mind you some of them are a little past due for replacement ).
Most motorcycles of the 50's & 60's had next to no external filters, ran around 10:1 compression, did 6,000 to 10,000 rpm and ran quite fine, provided you change the oil.
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Bert- Very Cool about your antique cycle, what brand or model is it ?

Harleys are my thing, I know you are not referring To Harleys of the 50's & 60's, that would be the Panheads & starting in 1966 the Shovelhead. They both ran much lower C/R & could never rev to over 6K.
 
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