Re: Oil Filter Lines

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/8/13 15:19:30

Just after I was so sure I knew this cold, I'm a bit confused after just looking at a 356 motor in a 1941 LeBaron sport brougham on which the filter was standard equipment. But the galley outlet on the block has only the oil pressure gauge sender and a line to the filter. The filter returns to the upper cross galley to the lifters and there is no pigtail from the lower to the upper as Kevin's engine correctly shows for that vintage. Whether this is right or not I don't know, the engine has a 1946 casting date so has obviously been changed (though still a 356) and perhaps the installation is incorrect. But I don't see another place for the filter to return to. Hopefully the filter doesn't have a restrictor because that would mean the hydraulic lifters would only run on the bypassed stream from the filter, and if the filter were to plug.....?

I think this is the first 1938 and newer L8 I've seen without the little pigtail from the lower to upper galley, again as in Kev's picture.