i have been looking for a way to get rid of the remote oil fitler/cooler lines on my 4.3. i swapped it into a toyota tube buggy and i would rather just use a spin on oil filter for the engine. i have searched and searched the web and pirate. i know that it cannot be that hard, but i was wondering if there is an easy solution. i know that other SB's use a spin on filter on the lower rear of the drivers side of the block, so i would imagine that i need to duplicate this. i removed the remote housing form the block and i noticed the area for some sort of short peice of threaded pipe??? i know that this is where the filter should screw onto, but is there a company that sells what i am looking for? or should i just get a sandwich adapter plate and just cap the ports for the lines? another thing i have heard is that i can probably get this peice i am looking for from a 2WD S-10. is this true?

You need a 2wd oil filter adapter and the correct bolts. I think a full-size c-10 uses what you need. It has the oil filter high-pressure bypass valve built into it. take all your stuff off and it should bolt directly to the block and accept a spin-on filter.

go to your chevy dealer. tell them you have a 97 c1500 4.3 auto,no oil cooler and you need the oil filter threaded nipple. costs about $3,thread it in and you're done. napa 1036 filter. ignore the other guy^^^. there was a recent thread with the part # for the nipple,but i can't find it.

The threaded nipple IS the oilfilter adapter I am talking about. It comes as part of the base with pressure relief valve.

thanks guys, sounds like it should be real easy now.

NAPA, Part number, FIL4037, cost $3.29 you can buy it locally or at

www.napaonline.com

The threaded nipple IS the oilfilter adapter I am talking about. It comes as part of the base with pressure relief valve.

no it doesn't.we are getting rid of the bolt on adapter. the threaded nipple threads directly into the block.

I have never seen a block that didn't have a filter base bolted to the block with two bolts. It has a pipe thread nipple screwed into it in turn. maybe the later 4.3s are different but small blocks have been this way since late '68. Learn something new every day.

i was looking for the thread adapter. but now that i think about it, when i took off the remote one, i did have to remove the two bolts, and there was a gasket that went around the whole outer diameter of the remote block. i know that on my cherokee, the oil filter has a gasket that is smaller than the outer diameter of the filter. with the filter i will be putting on, will the gasket be nearly as big as the outer diameter of the filter?

yes ...by the nipple,and the correct filter and your set.The filter will seal to the housing off the block,I was in the same boat and did the same thing

BTW, the 2 threaded bolt that you are reffering to,are only there to hold the remote in place. screw the threaded nipple in place and add the filter and your done.

alright, i have got the threaded nipple in my hands, along with a napa filter. i couldnt get the threaded nipple from napa, but i had o'reillys cross reference it and they got it from WIX #24037. the filter i have is napa #91036. the problem is this. the threaded nipple will thread directly into the block. perfect. the filter wont thread onto the nipple. f*ck. i went back to o'reillys and went through every single oil filter, regardless if it was for my application. not a single one would fit the threads on the nipple. the oil filter side of the nipple is too small in diameter. it slides right into the hole on all the filters. i dont have a way to post pictures, but the site for the nipple is http://wixfilters.com/filterlookup/ResultsPart.asp?PartNo=24037
the site for the filter is
http://www.napaonline.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/NAPAonline/search_results_product_detail.d2w/report?prrfnbr=28511145&prmenbr=5806

did i screw up? i dont get it. i also went down to the chevy dealer and had the parts guy look it up on the computer. the schematic did not show the nipple on the block. it only showed one on the actual remote mount. unfourtunately, i have already tossed this part. that guy was a clueless dumb f*ck anyway. so, there was no help from this guy.

any advise would be great.

and one last thing. i was on the WIX site and they list the "principal application" for the nipple. it says "Adapter Stud For British Leyland Cars"?? i thought this was for cheverolet?? so i went to the napa site and searched for FIL4037 and the same little application popped up. British Leyland.

did i get the wrong thng, or is the WIX 24037 not the correct part?

I used the one from napa with no problem...you might want to give it a try

Try this thread. You take off all the remote stuff, screw this little threaded pipe into the block, and screw on your filter. Done.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199016&highlight=filter

Try this thread. You take off all the remote stuff, screw this little threaded pipe into the block, and screw on your filter. Done.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199016&highlight=filter

ditto,Thats what I have been trying to say for the last week