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| | | | Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 201 | I will be having my '46 235 rebuilt in the near future. The truck it goes in still works for a living so I am thinking that an oil filter would be a good idea.
Now the question: can I set it up so it's a full flow filter instead of a bypass? If so, how much extra work is it?
It just seems to me that a full flow filter would be far more efficient at keeping the engine clean. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 |
If you are not going to put on many miles per year and you are going to annually change the oil in that newly rd built engine, you could safely get long service without an oil filter.
The by-pass oil filters are very efficient/effective.
A full-flow-conversion on a low-pressure engine seems like a lot of work/$$ for minimal benefit?
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 201 | That's what I was wondering. The truck sees a couple of thousand miles a year, but many of those miles are with a full load in the hills of western Mass. Plainly put, it will work HARD. I just want to be sure I don't have to pull the engine again any time soon.
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