Add-on Oil Filter System

[Dennis Detweiler]

My 39 doesn't have an oil filter system on it. I'd like to add one. Bernbaum shows sealed can type and replacement element. I assume the element fits inside the can? Or, is there a spin-on conversion system? My first car was a 51 Studebaker and I remember it having a canister with drop in filter. Is it the same as sealed canister?

[desoto1939]

No the drop in is not the same as the sealed can type.  The sealed can type filter runs approx 50 - 75 dollar per filter and then you throw awy the metal can and then buy another for 50-75 dollars.  The drop in style that you mentioned has a metal  filter housing with a lid that bolts onto the metal body. you remove the lid and then drop in an oil filter element. These filter elements cost around 10 dollar.  The metal housing canbe found on ebay and at swap meets. This is the more economical way to go.  The old style metal cans have not been reproduced for several years and the cost is getting high every year becasue there are less around. either style is correct.

 

I have an AC dropin filter. I do not like the modern day spin on filter systems. They do not look correct and I do not think they work correctly.

Rich Hartung

Desoto1939@aol.com

[bob westphal]

You might be able to locate canister type on eBay that also has the mounting brackets and oil lines. NAPA carries the canister one (the last bone I bought ran abot $60) but it won't have the brackets.

[Andydodge]

Dennis..........if you really want to go fast and as my 41 Plymouth was burgundy which is almost red and it wanted to go fast......... so as it was a so called restoration but didn't have an oil filter at all I being a hotrodder installed a Bee Hive Oil filter........polished alloy, lots of fins, and shiney.......it was to match the 230 i was building but the Beehive filters take the same style of drop in filter canister and came with a list of the different brand of canisters that would fit..........wasn't cheap but speed never is.......lol...........andyd 

[Plymouthy Adams]

Andy...we all know the more chrome attached, the faster it will travel...I have however never seen a formula,/rule of thumb for the drag coefficient per square inch of chrome.  How do you boys down under ascertain your HP gains on chrome mods?  

Not picking on Andy by the way....just the aftermarket parts on show no go chrome..about like you could go through the JC Whitney catalog, buy all the fuel savings parts for your car but in the end all you got is a big hassle of pulling off the road every so many miles to drain the excess fuel out of your tank to prevent it hitting the cars behind you..

 

Edited October 22, 2017 by Plymouthy Adams

[Andydodge]

Mummy, Mummy.....o/k...Mommy, Mommy...........Plymouthys picking on me!...................Chrome, chrome, chrome.....I love chrome..........yum, chrome.............lol...............anyway, Dennis back to the original question...........any of the canister type filters will work with the sidevalve Plymouth engine, I would chase up a style that allows the replacement element rather than the throwaway canister as apart from anything else all you are doing is replacing the element rather than running the risk of not being able to find a new canister that has the screw fittings in the exact same place as the old canister...............regards from Oz......andyd  

[Dennis Detweiler]

Thanks!  I'm digging into ebay and looking at the screw on top canister models.