Re: Oil Filter Identification
Posted by HH56 On 2023/11/9 20:25:25
I think it is going to be hard to specify what you have without a lot more info and even then I think it would be a guess. Add to that, if a dealer had last years filter style in stock and it would fit it would most likely be sold and installed on this years car.
Here are some of the basic shapes Packard offered and I believe they mostly used Purolator with hex head lid bolts. These photos are from acc folders and fact books. As to what could have been on a car, in addition to what a dealer might have sold remember in that time frame aftermarket oil filters were common and were sold by just about every garage, parts store and half the filling stations.
In these Packard photos, prewar 40-42 style has a fairly pointed canister bottom end with the inlet on the bottom.
All postwars filters reversed the inlet and outlet so inlet is now on the side and bottom of canister exit end is fairly flat. Some of the 48-52 canisters had a drain plug.
54 and probably 53 has a fairly pointed cap but flat bottom. Inlet on the side. Believe those got rid of the drain plug and I am also not sure when the orifice started to be drilled in the postwar center tube of filter rather than being in the brass 4 port block fitting.
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Here are some of the basic shapes Packard offered and I believe they mostly used Purolator with hex head lid bolts. These photos are from acc folders and fact books. As to what could have been on a car, in addition to what a dealer might have sold remember in that time frame aftermarket oil filters were common and were sold by just about every garage, parts store and half the filling stations.
In these Packard photos, prewar 40-42 style has a fairly pointed canister bottom end with the inlet on the bottom.
All postwars filters reversed the inlet and outlet so inlet is now on the side and bottom of canister exit end is fairly flat. Some of the 48-52 canisters had a drain plug.
54 and probably 53 has a fairly pointed cap but flat bottom. Inlet on the side. Believe those got rid of the drain plug and I am also not sure when the orifice started to be drilled in the postwar center tube of filter rather than being in the brass 4 port block fitting.
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40.jpg (94.38 KB) 48-52.jpg (337.66 KB)
54.jpg (179.17 KB)
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