Ferrari Mailing List: Re: UFI Oil Filters - no watch or gun content

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

Uhh, for the timeframe they were bad, this was far from an urban legend!

-matt
'85 308

On 3/27/08, red5hilser [at] aol.com <red5hilser [at] aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Paul: I've had my gt4 since June, 1999, and changed filters every 4K, 
> using only UFIs. I've put 50K on it with NO oil baths. But then, it's only a 
> Shitbox, right cLyDe?
>
> Sounds like a 99% urban legend to me. Think of all the UFIs used all over the 
> world, and how many actually burst. Sounds like it's a toss-up on whether you 
> get hit by a?piece of space junk?or have a UFI malfunction first.
>
> Juan Manuel Fangio? probably owes his life to, when jumping into his Mercedes 
> 300SLR at the start of the 1955 LeMans du?24, having the gearshift lever run 
> up inside his pants leg, delaying his start by some 20 seconds. Fangio was 
> some?50 meters behind Mike Hawthorn and Pierre Leveigh when they came 
> together on the pit straight, killing Levegh and some 80 odd spectators. In 
> all the thousands of LeMans type starts that have taken place over the years, 
> That's the only one that I've ever heard of that a driver, whe jumping into 
> his car, stuffed the gearshift knob up his pants-leg. I guess it happens 
> about as often as a UFI bursts, or you get hit on the head by the frozern 
> contents of an airliner toilet.
> ?
>
> Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul
> Subject: [Ferrari] UFI Oil Filters - no watch or gun content
>
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> Anyone remember back some 8-10 years ago, a few stories about UFI filters
> for the 308 bursting, spraying oil throughout the engine compartment?
>
> I have 2 such UFI oil filters in Ferrari factory boxes dated 24-04-98,  which 
> I
> should sell but don't want to pass risk of the problem to an unsuspecting
> buyer, if in fact it is a potential problem.
>
> The information I seek is whether this was a genuine widespread problem
> or a localized fluke.  And whether it can be identified by datecode to a
> specific
> lot of filters.  So far I've searched the FerrariChat 2003 archives, Google,
> Dogpile
> & Yahoo and found only 1 personal bursting story by Bill Badurski FCA chairman
> - he claims sealing gasket let go due to a production problem since corrected.
>
> tks
> p
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