2.3L right angle oil filter adapter

[Captain Ledd]

I've read through the thing in the tech library but still had an issue.

The adapter pictured looks EXACTLY like the one I pulled off my 2.8L, except that the hollow bolt is too short to fit in the existing threaded hole in the block. the bolt looks the same length in the picture too. is there a longer bolt I need or some other piece? I never actually unscrewed the original hollow rod, but held it up right next to it and I doubt it would reach at all. I even poked around in the blocks opening and the hollow threaded rod indeed goes back a ways. anything I can do or am I doomed to have a sideways filter?

The patient is a '97 2.3L 2wd manual, std. cab short bed.

 

[Dave R]

The Ford Motorsport kit comes with a hollow bolt with a female thread on the end, you do not have to remove the pipe nipple from the block to use it. You can also get the same thing, adapter and bolt, out of a Merkur XR4Ti. I don't think Ford offers the bolt as a seperate piece anymore. Even if they did, it would probably be cheaper to buy the FMS kit anyway.

 

[Captain Ledd]

ohh, ok. I thought where it said "Hollow bolt" on there it just referred to a new bolt all the way through, not hollow-screws-over-the-top-of-the-old-one.

Thanks for clearing that up

 

[Bill]

Hollow bolt, or threaded pipe?

I'm not familiar with your application, but I but a 2.8L V6 in place of a 2.6L V6 in a Capri years ago. The 2.8L had the 90º adapter, but there was a clearance problem using it, so I had to mount the filter on the threaded pipe, but I couldn't get the threaded pipe out of the old block, and the one in the 90º adapter was too short. One I realised it was a pipe thread, I went to the hardware store and bought one. Problem resolved.

That was on early 70's engines. If they haven't went to metric threads to mount the oil filter, a trip to the hardware store may work out for you.

Take an oil filter to the hardware store to see if the thread matches.

 

[Dave R]

Hollow bolt, or threaded pipe?

Hollow bolt.

 

[Captain Ledd]

I thought when it said "hollow bolt" it was a hollow bolt with a male thread that threaded into the block, not a female threaded bolt that screws on over the existing stud.