Farmall M - I can't find a oil filter - HELP!

rlkend · Feb 21, 2015

I've searched the interwebs far and wide and about all i've been able to find are a couple pictures. I have a 1942 M, and apparently it has an aftermarket oil filter canister, stamped on the side is Model 200 S. [/img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd...._=1431107461_349006ade29d735e504e4c14300f1037

rustyfarmall · Feb 21, 2015

That filter might be one of those that uses a roll of toilet paper as the element. If that M were mine, I would be visiting a salvage yard or two to find an original style, and then you can find the filters almost anywhere.

Earl-IL · Feb 21, 2015

Looks like the old Fram unit. They made a long & short version. Did you see any orange paint on it? Do you have the old filter?

rlkend · Feb 21, 2015

The inside of the lid is orange, I wish the old filter was there, but the previous owner had some rather "creative" stuff going on in there. I can get an original filter housing pretty easy but if I can find a filter to fit this housing that would be pretty great.

Earl-IL · Feb 21, 2015

We sold Fram yrs ago . In the back of the book they had filter dimension. I will look and see if I have any info.

henryv11 · Feb 21, 2015

They just had a post the Ford barn about those TP
filters very interesting

BruceS · Feb 21, 2015

If you get the original style filter, (the tall one) the napa filter no. is 1125. Your case-ih dealer would have them also.

Bob · Feb 21, 2015

Major filter manufacturers (WIX as an example) have an extensive photo or drawing and dimensional section in their catalogs.

Shouldn't be at all tough to find a filter that will fit if you can grab one of those catalogs from a dealer.

Nebraska Cowman · Feb 22, 2015

Yes, It looks Fram to me too. Let me look through my old Tractor Supply catalogs and see what I can learn. Maybe they will have a replacement filter number.

farmeracb · Feb 22, 2015

I have the same thing on an F-20, it is a "luber-finer" Seems like the filter number I came up with was for an old mack truck with a gas engine. It should say on lid what the brand is. Have you pulled the element out to check for part numbers?

rlkend · Feb 23, 2015

The element that was in there was far from the right one, they had a filter that is for a factory housing with a stack of washers on top of it to hold it in place.

rustyfarmall · Feb 23, 2015

(quoted from post at 15:34:07 02/21/15) The inside of the lid is orange, I wish the old filter was there, but the previous owner had some rather "creative" stuff going on in there. I can get an original filter housing pretty easy but if I can find a filter to fit this housing that would be pretty great.

No better time than right now to install an original type.

That ol' girl came from the factory equipped with an oil filter that worked pretty darn good. I honestly do not understand why anyone would think some kind of aftermarket setup would be any better.

rlkend · Feb 23, 2015

I've already got one rounded up, I have no idea why they would have changed it over either, whoever changed it over did it way before my time lol.

mkirsch · Feb 23, 2015

Some enterprising individual with an idea and a good sales pitch probably made a lot of money on those aftermarket filter systems. Maybe it was better, maybe it wasn't, but someone managed to convince a lot of people that their system was worth the money. Capitalism is the name of the game.

Owen Aaland · Feb 23, 2015

when the M was first produced the oil filter consisted of a fine wire mesh screen. These were soon replaced with a paper element that could do a better job of filtering in a smaller size. The M filter base was made smaller when the paper filter became the standard and the smaller tractors continued to use the same diameter filter base but the canister was made shorter.

The serial number break when the filter size was changed was engine number 59393\59394 so your 42 M may have come with the larger base. In that case it may have been converted to the aftermarket filter to upgrade to a better filter than the tractor came with from the factory.

rustyfarmall · Feb 24, 2015

(quoted from post at 20:20:44 02/23/15) when the M was first produced the oil filter consisted of a fine wire mesh screen. These were soon replaced with a paper element that could do a better job of filtering in a smaller size. The M filter base was made smaller when the paper filter became the standard and the smaller tractors continued to use the same diameter filter base but the canister was made shorter.

The serial number break when the filter size was changed was engine number 5939359394 so your 42 M may have come with the larger base. In that case it may have been converted to the aftermarket filter to upgrade to a better filter than the tractor came with from the factory.

My 1940 M has the LARGE oil filter. It uses the same paper element as the W9, 600, and 650.

Owen Aaland · Feb 25, 2015

When the filter was changed from the screen to the paper element there was no need to change the filter housings since paper elements were made to fit where the original was metal. It is just that the tractors that were made after the change used a smaller filter housing. My W9 also uses the large filter like the one originally used on the M.

D beatty · Feb 25, 2015

From the picture that you showed it looks like the filter that was on my 1950 1 1/2 ton Chevy truck with 216 inline 6 and we had an old portable grinder that had a flat head 6 cylinder Chrysler and it had the same looking filter.

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