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Re: 1500? engine question -- oil filter.

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Subject: Re: 1500? engine question -- oil filter.
From: Tom Shirley <tshirley@VoyagerOnline.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:28:10 -0400
Gregory W. Smith wrote:

> However, the car has a "Crosslands 595" oil filter (which I was forced to
> remove with the screwdriver trick), held to the block with a hollow threaded
> rod with a hex cast into the center. The rod screws into threads cast into
> the block! To me, this has the earmarks of a "spin on" conversion kit for an
> early engine. The 1980 "by the book" AC Delco filter (and others I looked
> up) have significantly larger threads than the rod, and I have as yet been
> unable to locate a filter that will fit the threads. I'm hoping to find some
> sort of adapter that will fit the block's threads on one end, and the
> "proper" oil filter's threads on the other sometime during tomorrow's
> travels.
> 

My car had the same filter on it when I got it. Check out the Spitfire
tips page for the number of the adaptor you need.
-- 

Tom Shirley  Sale Creek, TN (just north of Chattanooga)
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