http://www.minimania.com/web/Item/HPS5/ ... Detail.cfm

Has anyone had experience with one of these gadgets?. Better still, where is it fitted? Any advice appreeesiated

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

I believe that type of magnetic oil trap is fitted to the back of the gearbox on the drivers side where the oil pick up pipe bolts are. I've heard mixed reviews, if you don't clean it out often and let swarf build up, then it can all let go at once with obvious consequences! In my opinion it's probably more worthwhile doing frequent oil changes.

Add magnets to the oil filter

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Did someone on here find some curved 'rare earth' (neomobdynium that is BAAAAAD spelling) magnets at some stage?

Or was I dreaming that?

M

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68 Deluxe.... it's shiny..... I like shiny!!

Clever! Years spent fiddling with Minis & I never thought of that. Derrrrrrr!

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

Just get an old speaker magnet and sick it on the bottom of the filter or a couple of long strip magnets up the sides

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

I like the idea of these ones!!

http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=ZDX8C%2DN40

These are the ones to go to a higher temp though:
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=D82SH

I think I'll get me some!!

Opps, sorry for the thread hijack, to bring it back on topic, i think you'd be better off putting these magnets on the oil filter than putting the trap on the oil pickup.

Cheers

matt

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68 Deluxe.... it's shiny..... I like shiny!!

Pull Force: 135.0 lbs You would have to be careful about getting too close to the car in front

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Pull force of 277lbs:

http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=DY0X0%2DN50



Not for the kiddies.....

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68 Deluxe.... it's shiny..... I like shiny!!

Excellent! Thanks, I'm ordering 4. It will be interesting to see how they fare thru' customs etc!

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

Bloody oath. Don't leave tools lying around on the garage floor when parking the car

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

if you have an old broken hard disc drive, you will find some pretty strong magnets inside

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Rover 214 atm ....

I've run rare earth magnets on the spin-on filter for years. I get nothing on the magnetic sump plug- and when I cut a filter up once, you should have seen all the fine stuff! Most oil filters would be lucky to filter at 50 micron size, anything smaller just goes round.. and round.. and round.
The magnets trap all this muck.

<edit> I also run a centre oil pickup, and the Minispares extended sump plug/magnet.

I put one of those magnetic trap things on back of my S gearbox once, in 100 miles it was starting to restrict the intake to the pump so I took it off.
And wasn't that a bitch of a job, with the motor in the car and an LCB...
I'll never ever use one again. Anybody wants it, give me $50 it's yours.
Brand new, used once....

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

I have a number of the rare earth Magnets about 4 months ago and will be selling them off shortly after my sons birthday
just got to work out how to package for posting them

just a warning..if you have two seperated and they smake togther they can smash...and trust me they are stroong and will pull from a distance

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

What about this style ?

http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx?pid=42212

Any experience/comments ? (good, bad and...)
Do they fit Aussie filter heads ?