Re: Poly oil filter location?

[Ray Bell <raybell46@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, in right hand drive markets that was the way the oil filter was
mounted...

The steering box was fitted to the chassis rail (not on the K-frame,
there was no way it would work there) and the oil filter on the block
was in the way, it had to be moved. The slant 6 and other V8s had the
same kind of treatment in Australia right through into the seventies
in our Valiants and the few larger cars assembled here.

The Hemi 6, being solely an Australian production engine, had the
filter located further forward on the block and so retained a regular
screw-on filter cartridge.

The mounting of the steering to the frame rail caused a couple of
problems. First, it put the Pitman arm arc into the opposite direction
to the arc of the steering arms at the wheels, creating a permanent
variation in steering geometry as you turned the steering. Second, in
Valiants, it led to a major problem with rusting at the steering box
mount in the rail.

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