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When I bought my 51 last year, it came with a Fram oil filter in a box. It has the "U" clamps and the hoses attached. I would like to put it on but have absolutely no idea where the hoses attach to the engine. Anybody can help me? Some pictures would be great. Thanking all of you for your help.
Jeff

The main feed hose on the side of the filter goes into a tee that the oil pressure line location on the block. The tee should be with the filter. Tee goes into block, oil pressure line into side of Tee and filter line into end of Tee.
The return hose goes into the side of the block, lower center. There is a pipe plug there now. The filter clamps onto the manifold to the rear of the carburetor. Return hose goes to bottom of filter.

Thank you for the response. The filter was on the car at one time and I have a picture of it being there from some previous owner. I will check to see if there is a plugged T at the location and if there is a pipe plug there.
Jeff

I had a filter on my '51 when I got it. One line started leaking so I removed it and plugged the connections. Since I drive it about 1000 miles per year, change the oil yearly and changing the filter is one messy job removal was the smart thing to do.

I appreciate Chipper's insight and agree with his approach. Given the quality of today's oils, the frequency that it is replenished in our cars, and that the bypass filter design only processes about 10% of the oil I have minimal interest in adding one to my '37.

Thank you all for your advise. I did locate the plugged up fittings and the tee at the oil pressure line. I think the filter is going back in the box for the next "caretaker" to deal with. I just thought it looked cool.
Jeff

Chipper and Rusty have given you good advice.

The oil filter on the old 216s were merely sold to convince the gullible owner of the car that they had great engine oil filtering protection. Hardly.

Just change the oil using 10w-30 yearly or every 2-3K. That's good enough.

Best,

Charlie

Charlie,
Thanks for that. I will follow that advise.
Jeff

I respect the opinions but from experiance i have seen how effective the by-pass oil filters are. Back in the 1950's the owners generally followed the factory recomedations and changed oi every 1000 to 2000 miles and oil filter every 6000 miles. It was common to see at least an inch or more of "stuff" at the bottom of the filter canister as well as a coating on the filter material. Unless you are driving through a sand storm thereis not that must stuff that needs to be filtered out of the oil. The by-pass filter is rated at filtering 39 gallons of oil per hour.
I am not saying a filter is necessary or allows longer oil change intervals. On cars that sit with the engines not started for longer periods of time a lot of the "stuff" merely settles to the bottom of the oil pan.
There is no subitute for not changing oil and a filter will not remove water, acids or gasoline from the oil.

Which oil brand do you use? What would you suggest for a 235 engine? 5W-30 or 10W-30?

Any good brand, and it's 10/30.

Ok thank you. I read a lot of articles some folks go synthetic or even use oil made for Diesel engines.I would not go that extreme and will continue to use 10w-30.

Any brand of 10W-30 oil sold today is a hundred times better than the oils available in 1951.

Very true thank you.