Technical Another what is that question.

I’m having one of those days in the shop. Everything I touch turns to sh!t. But rather than going in the house, getting a cup of coffee and watching TV, I’m trying to clean up my workbench. Just a little, somewhat, you know, put some stuff back where it goes.
So I ran across this oil filter “thing”. A bracket, an adapter, a base, I don’t know what you call it and I tried them all looking for it on the internet. It does have an AC part number: AC 5575950.
Apparently it’s not a Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac or Olds Rocket. It looks like it’s from the ‘60s.
Ok, now I AM going in the house… it just took me four tries to get the pictures properly loaded. Arghhhh

 

nailhead? unless the guy listing this is wrong, also.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333894636380

 

Thanks Jim. I looked at my Buick, but from the angle I was looking, it didn’t look anything like that fitting. Well thanks again, I guess it’s going in the Buick parts box.

 

it looks pretty close to this one?

 

Yep.

 

The HAMB strikes again!

 

It will bolt on the early engines and allow you to use a spin on filter.

 

Good question with photos and a HAMB answer within 10 minutes, nicely done.

 

Yeah, gotta love this place.
I do have a ‘56 322, maybe I got it for that engine and just lost track of it til now. It happens….even more now that I’m old.

 

it looks like there were several varieties over the years, and the 322 version doesn't look anything like that.

 

That is the early 364 version, which changed in 59 I think. I know my 61 364 has the later version.

 

I guess it must have come with the pile of parts that was the 322 when I got it. I do have the big canister style filter ***embly that the 322 came from the factory with. I didn’t know Buick made changes to the block over the years that required different adapters. Learn something new every day, especially around here.
The 322 was supposed to go into my Dad’s (R.I.P) Model A along with a Mustang C4 automatic, replacing the worn out four banger. But he got sick and when he recovered he didn’t feel up to working on or driving an old car. The guy we bought the car from wanted to buy it back, so we sold it back to him. The 322 is all I have left of our last father/son project. Funny, I hadn’t thought about that.

 

Buick vs Buick…. Strange that they felt the need to change this when most of the rest of the engine design stayed pretty much the same over the years.

 

Buick was continually making changes over the years on this engine. The block changed in 57 when the 364 came out, oil pump changes, filter adapter changes, crankshaft pilot hole changes, timing cover changes, and rocker changes to name a few.

Heads pretty much were consistent throughout, other than the holy grail "D" casting heads.

 

A buddy of mine made a living selling parts like I do, and he loved dealing in nailhead parts, because the little brackets and manifolds and stuff changed so often, the pieces for every year's engine were "rare".

 

Gee, I thought only Ford did that.

 

the only nailhead I ever worked on was a 1953 322, almost all the engine parts were one year only.

 

I worked on a couple over the years but we weren’t looking for parts, just take apart - put back together type stuff. As a header builder it was just Early= round exhaust ports, Later= rectangular. I knew the bellhousing bolt pattern changed around ‘57 and deck height changes meant three different intake manifolds sizes. But Olds did similar things.

 

And then there was the one year only aluminum head for the 300 buick. At least it fits the '61-'64 215 blocks.