Wisconsin Engine; Oil Filter; STICK!?

[Soldier Tom]

Got a nice NH Super 78 Baler with a Wisconsin Engine, went to change the oil and filter and the old filter had what looks like a corndog stick in the middle of it. The new one didn't. What's with the stick?! Am I missing something?
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Soldier Tom

 

[Brian Jasper co. Ia]

There's supposed to be a tube in the base of the filter housing that sticks up through the hole in the filter with the stick in it.

 

[Dave S.]

What model engine is it?

 

[Bob]

To carry this a little farther, the new filter comes with a stick inserted to keep the hole open for the tube coming up from the filter base.

 

[Anonymous-0]

perzackly. Wico's and AC's used cotton rag bypass filters, only filter a % of the oil, when the rag filter gets obstructed, you get no filtering. With no pipe to put the oil up into the filter, you get no filtering. Make a pipe out of some copper tubing, it needs only to be tall enough to not hit the top of the filter, if you want to get fancy, plug the upper end, and drill a hole straight through the sides of the tube so the oil goes up, and squirts out the sides.

 

[Soldier Tom]

It's a VH4D engine. The new filter did NOT have the stick, the old filter I took off had the stick in it. Sounds like a reasonable thing, make a tube, I didn't see a tube in any of the manuals or mechanical drawings for it, so it had me off balance a bit. Thanks all
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