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#80239 07/21/2007 12:15 AM | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 12 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 12 | I bought an oil filter canister for my Canadian 261. The seller said it was taken off of a Chevy inline six.
I'm just wondering why the inlet is on the left side of the canister. Shouldn't it be on the right side? This is if I'm looking at the canister on its place on the intake manifold and I'm stading next to the car.
1960 Pontiac Strato-Chief 4d Sedan with 261 inline six and three on tree.
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#80240 07/21/2007 1:00 AM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 223 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 223 | I am making the assumption that this is a full flow oil filter system with the big lines. The US Chevrolet 261 was used in big trucks and buses. The oil filter mounted on the right side of the intake manifold looking from where you are standing, (i.e. on the cab side half of the manifold.) As you can see it won't fit there in a car or pickup due to the steering column and shifters. I moved mine forward to the front side of the manifold and piped it from there.
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#80241 07/21/2007 3:22 AM | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | 1960 Pontiac Strato-Chief 4d Sedan with 261 inline six and three on tree I think all 261s from Canadian Pontiacs (all years) have a by-pass oil filtration system. What is the size of the holes in the block for the oil lines? | | |
#80242 07/21/2007 10:17 AM | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 12 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 12 | tclederman is right. My 261 have smaller holes. But why my canister inlet is sort of on wrong side of it?
1960 Pontiac Strato-Chief 4d Sedan with 261 inline six and three on tree.
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#80243 07/21/2007 11:25 AM | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | I'd have to go along with Nifty's take on the situation. I taint no expert here Strato but the thought just crossed my mind that this problem is similar to the one that I just had. I picked up a filter at a swap meet that had the inlet in the front (left) of the canister and found that these were mounted to the rear of the carburator on the later engines to give clearance to the low mounting of the Air Cleaners. On the earlier or Advance Design trucks the steering gear is in the way but the Air Cleaners are mounted atop the carb. Here they have to mount the filter in front of the carb. This requires that the inlet must be in the rear of the canister to put it closer to the tapped outlet in the block.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
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