Jason,
There is a
supplier of a spin-on filter hidden in an original appearing housing. Expensive
I think. He advertises in WPC News.
Joeseph McGinnis, phone 706-745-3985,
callent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It would be difficult to create a
full-flow design oil filter for the flat 6, because the block is only designed
to by-pass a portion of the oil to the filter. It could probably be done if
somebody wanted to invest the engineering time. I have seen it done on flathead
Ford V8s and Model A engines.
Dave
Homstad
56 Dodge
D500
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From: Forward Look Mopar
Discussion List [mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jason Rogers
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
10:03 PM
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [FWDLK] Flathead 6 Oil
Filtration Improvement
My '55
Belvedere, with its run-laps-around-any-V8 flathead 6 (good-natured satire) has
the original-style bypass-flow oil filter, attached to the side of the
engine. Over the years I've used the sealed-canister replacements (e.g.
NAPA 1035), but those seem to be getting more rare. I see one vendor
peddling one such filter on eBay for $50 plus S&H.
So,
does anyone know of a conversion, private or commercially-available, to
full-flow engine oil filtration for this engine? It seems like it'd be
easy to install an adapter to the existing oil filter lines to utilize a
spin-on filter, but that would still be filtering only part of the engine oil.
Thanks,
Jason.
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