F134 Oil Filter

I had my engine rebuild several years ago by Northstar Willys in MN (formerly Willys Minneapolis) where it was when I purchased by Jeep many years ago.

Anyway - I'm almost done with my restoration and getting ready to put oil in and run the engine. They told me not to run an oil filter and to just change the oil more frequently. The reason for not running a filter was because the filter is a passive system that tended to starve a couple of the main bearings. I have no problem changing the oil every thousand miles if that's what it takes. I wanted to hear what you all have to say about this.

Can of worms maybe... Thoughts?

 

Horse Feathers.

x2 what Howard says.

 

x3.

If you do run it without a filter, plug the port in the block where the filter line connects. Don't run an empty filter housing.

 

Howard - is this true for F-heads before the CJ5 era?
I seem to recall my 1950 truck (f-head) needing the small-orifice upgrade when I rebuilt it.

 

For clarification, my oils supply and return lines are plugged. So I plan to run no filter, no oil through the filter housing either unless it's a bad idea. I like the idea of more oil to the bearings.

 

Based on the amount of sludge I have removed from F-head filter cannisters, I would hate to not have one.

 

I would think that is one of the more important times to have a filter. They were invented for a purpose and serve it well.

 

Didn't some of the canister filters have a drain?

 

Not sure. I've seen that on other vehicles, even other jeeps, but not on my Cj5s.

 

F-heads from beginning of M38A1 era. Flathead before that.

 

My '51 pickup had the F-head. Don't know on the orifice in the timing cover or where ever it was mounted. And don't remember what the pressure was on the oil gauge.

 

The cover for the over head valves? Had a vent connection to the air-cleaner element. Don't all or most of the CJ's use a tube from the dip-stick tube to the air-cleaner?
When did the road-tube go away? That changed things also.
And some of the Pickups and Wagons had F-head six cylinders. When did the F-head replace the Flathead in the pickups and wagons? The '50 or '51 Willys Overland wagon I drove while in the Navy came to me with a 283 SBC in it. Didn't have a real impressive top speed (I remember it being 50 or 55 mph), but it would pull stumps when you wanted to.

 

Did this to my new motor.