What oil filter?

[Blue95]

You can easily run a bigger filter, like I said the Wix 51069 is taller than that and still clears the drive shaft. I am not sure what the RP equivalent is but it will cross.

 

[89-Z71]

Yeah, I looked for that one, but Pep Boys doesn't have WIX. After seeing all that room, I'm going to find that one next time. I'd feel better between oil changes with a longer filter.

 

[Blue95]

Oreilys has them for sure, just looked and the height is 4.338" tall. Yes the more filter media the better, don't want to risk your new swapped engine

 

[bluex]

I did this today/yesterday. Here are some pices of the 51069 clearance. Its tight, but I can get my hand between the filter and driveshaft where it is right now. It will be much closer when the shaft turns 90* though. This also gave me higher oil pressure? I didnt use the mr. gasket adapter, but a GM one I had on another small block...

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[JonZ71]

the only way it would give more pressure would be from the old filter being extremely clogged i would think.

 

[bluex]

Nah pressure has been the same since I bought it until this. I did all this about 250 miles early from the scheduled change so the old filter should have been fine.

 

[DAGEN]

Was there an oil cooler hooked up before this? Would explain the pressure increase. I was going to do this mod but instead just replaced my oil cooler lines.

 

[Enginebuilder]

My truck originally came with an oil cooler, and oil pressure was ~60psi at cold idle. I replaced the oil filter adapter with the parts shown in the OP, and now my cold idle pressure is up quite a bit from there.

 

[bluex]

Was there an oil cooler hooked up before this? Would explain the pressure increase. I was going to do this mod but instead just replaced my oil cooler lines.

Yes my lines were leaking an I had the adapter on hand so I just deleted the lines instead of replacing

 

[Blue95]

That is why psi I went up, mine did the same when I deleted my oil cooler lines.