305 v6 oil filter

[neil305v6]

am building a 1963 1ton truck to haul my rat rod bike and car. The engine has no oil filter or canister i would like to put some type of filter on it but cant seem to find any info on it. if anybody has any ideas it would be a great help. motor is a 305e v6 engine. Thanks Paul

[TJ's GMC]

Might post a wtb ad in the classifieds. Lot's of members with v6 parts for sale, and I'm sure someone will have what you need.
Might look into converting to the new style spin on filter as well. :ok:

[BobBray]

On these engines, the oil filter attaches to a bolt-on housing at the left (driver's) side rear of the engine block. The early housings and those used on the large V-6's usually used the canister-type filter, many of the later ones used a spin-on type filter. However, some V-6's had no oil filter at all, and just had a plate bolted on the engine to block off the passages to the filter housing. Adding an oil filter is simply a matter of bolting on an oil filter housing as TJ pointed out.

Now time for some trivia- some late production spin-on oil filter housings were slightly larger in diameter and took a Chevy style filter (PF35) instead of the Buick/Pontiac/Olds (PF24) type. Extra points if you score one of those!