Amsoil Bypass Filter Installation

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As you know, when it comes to the motor we enjoy, I cannot leave well enough alone. It's funny, as I was typing that last sentence, it occured to me that the rest (the truck) is just a large engine holder (not really, indulge me). If the Cummins was only available in a Studebaker would you still purchase the Dodge? Your lucky your brain doesn't work as intermittently as mine!

I finished installing my Amsoil bypass filter system yesterday and I thought I would explain what I encountered for those of you considering this retrofit.

First problem...where do you mount the big %@&$ filter? Well, be happy you have some room under the hood, some truck owners don't!
I wanted it to be vertical like the oem filter mounted on the block, but I did not see any area on the fenderwell or elsewhere to allow vertical installation. So I fantasized up a sheetmetal surround for the passenger side battery, now I have a vertical surface to bolt the filter bracket to. I made the engine side triple thick to give an appropriate strength coeficient for the bypass filter to hang off of. This side of the engine has the greatest volume of free area and is convenient to the oem filter mounted on the engine. So now where do the lines hook up to the engine? Weeeeeelll I removed the 1/8" plug from the top of the oem filter bracket and installed the pipe x flare fitting and ran a line to the inlet of the Amsoil filter bracket which is now mounted on the battery "heat shield" (I made). We now need to install a return line to the engine from the bypass filter bracket. I purchased the swivel fitting from Amsoil, thinking I would drill the filler cap and install this part. Not!, it's to short for the filler cap! Now what? I decided to remove the valvecover and drill and tap a 1/8 pipe hole for the return line.

This system will filter a very small volume of oil, at a low pressure, through a humongous filter, in order to capture significanlty smaller particles than the oem system is capable of. From here one can theoretically leave the oil in the engine for extended periods while consistantly changing the filters. The synthetic oil holds up under extreme heat better than petroleum based oil. HEY!!!... that was to wake up those of you who I put to sleep while ramblin' on this topic.


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