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Oil filter housing

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#1 ·
Good afternoon,

I have a 1937 ford rat rod truck with a 460 in it. It currently has an oil filter relocation kit on it because a long oil filter does not fit between the block and the frame. I believe a 45-degree housing would work. I have found several, but they are either no longer available or quite expensive. I can find 90-degree housings all day long. These are some that I have found. E7TE-6884-KA, D8UE-6884-AA, C8AE-6884-AA, C5TE-6884-BA. Does anyone have any insight on this issue? Does anyone have one of these adaptors for sale? I have also seen posts that mention using a short WIX oil filter, 51335 or 51331. I just bought this truck and I have not got any numbers off of the block to verify exactly what it is. I was just told by the previous owner it was a 460.
 

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#4 ·
Will a 90 degree adapter not work for you? Like you said lots of those in wrecking yards I've seen 80's-90's 460 trucks with towing packages that used an oil cooler that used them with hoses to the cooler and 460 and 351 powered trucks and vans that used a 90 adapter some of them were oil cooler adapters that either didn't have the passages drilled or were plugged off.You can rotate them to point in almost any direction you want.
 
#5 ·
Good afternoon, I have a 1937 ford rat rod truck with a 460 in it. It currently has an oil filter relocation kit on it because a long oil filter does not fit between the block and the frame. I believe a 45-degree housing would work. I have found several, but they are either no longer available or quite expensive. I can find 90-degree housings all day long. These are some that I have found. E7TE-6884-KA, D8UE-6884-AA, C8AE-6884-AA, C5TE-6884-BA. Does anyone have any insight on this issue? Does anyone have one of these adaptors for sale? I have also seen posts that mention using a short WIX oil filter, 51335 or 51331. I just bought this truck and I have not got any numbers off of the block to verify exactly what it is. I was just told by the previous owner it was a 460.
A Motorcraft FL-300 Oil filter is the short version of the longer FL-1 Motorcraft oil filter