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Old 06-15-2011, 01:27 PM   #28
Bruce Lancaster
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Default Re: The Flathead oil modification thread...

No...I've got nothing but various incomplete fragments of pictorial coverage. I think the wartime stuff is extremely rare, and the postwar was optional and not a common choice by the customers. I think same general setup was used on Bren carriers, hooked to a cooling coil instead of a filter...flatheads in armored tracked vehicles had HARD lives!
Note in the picture above there is some sort of valve across the lines, presumably a bypass in case a blocked filter produced backpressure above the valves tolerance...this would be functionally equivalent to the little bypass valve in the filter mount on a SBC.
If you try to emulate this, I think a number of early fifties OHV V8's used cannister type full flows.
Surely someone on here remembers the Canadian who reproduced the special fitting...
Maybe you could use the V8 club membership book or website to locate Canadian chapters of the club and possible owners of one of these rigs.
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