Need advice: '55 Chevy oil filter

[50Fraud]

I have a '55 265 in my truck. Those first-year SBC's didn't have a full flow oil filter, but there was an accessory filter available that mounted on the intake manifold.

I need advice from somebody who is familiar with that particular kind of remote filter, its plumbing and flow. Anybody here who can help?

[50Fraud]

I know I'm not the oldest guy on this board. Am I the only one to use a '55 engine?

[porknbeaner]

probably not the only one to ever use a '55 265.
The remote filter worked fine, but you could use a newer remote oil filter and accomplish the same purpose with a spin on, instead of a cartrige.
If your going for the look than your'e stuck with finding the old stuff but otherwise if it were me I'd go with the later stuff, and just hide it somewhere.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Tony, my dad has one on his Nomad. You know where to find him and he'd be glad to let you check it out. I see them at swap meets still quite often- NOS ones are not even impossible to find- That's what my dad's was when he bolted it on to his 265.

[Andy]

I had one. I think it picked up oil from the fitting on the block above the timing cover. I think in drained back into the engine thru a fitting in the intake manifold. I think it was near or in front of the carb on the pass. side?

[50Fraud]

Thanks, guys. Jim, I'll call Pat and go take a look.

Andy, what I have looks exactly like what you've described. The mystery is that there is no flow. I had thought that it was perhaps plumbed incorrectly, but now I'm thinking that something is blocking the oil gallery.