Posted By: Anonymous
Remote oil filter locating ??? - 13/10/2006 01:17
Right, just getting ready to soon have the coop in for some surgery & have just remembered the fcukkin mess that is ALWAYS created when carrying out an oil filter change, you know, it goes all over the place, drips for a day or so & usually requires about 30 kitchen wipes to clean up the undertray & the oil filter location housing near the block.
Having had a look at where the horns fit, I reckon ( there is enough room to vertically fit a remote filter & run either a set of pipes from a take off plate ( where the original filter lives )
OR, cut into one of the oil cooler pipes & simply fit 2 90 deg elbows such that the flow HAS to go to the filter
I've e-mailed think auto with a list of bits * want & asked for pirces, but 2 days later heard fcuk all, so I guess I'll have to call the knobs
question is, is this possible, as It just looks logical & will make life so easier to change the filter ( plus I can fit a larger one ! ).
Only question is which is the cooler side ( hose to cut on the cooler ? the most drivers side one ? or the left hand one, when looking at the engine ? ).
The only problem with the second idea is that I would have to totally blank off the OEM oil filter housing with a straight forward return, but nobody makes a thing like this, unless I but a take off plate & simply make a piece of pipe up as a loop return
opinions ?
PS : the actual cost doesn't look big.....maybe £100 ?
Taz
Having had a look at where the horns fit, I reckon ( there is enough room to vertically fit a remote filter & run either a set of pipes from a take off plate ( where the original filter lives )
OR, cut into one of the oil cooler pipes & simply fit 2 90 deg elbows such that the flow HAS to go to the filter
I've e-mailed think auto with a list of bits * want & asked for pirces, but 2 days later heard fcuk all, so I guess I'll have to call the knobs
question is, is this possible, as It just looks logical & will make life so easier to change the filter ( plus I can fit a larger one ! ).
Only question is which is the cooler side ( hose to cut on the cooler ? the most drivers side one ? or the left hand one, when looking at the engine ? ).
The only problem with the second idea is that I would have to totally blank off the OEM oil filter housing with a straight forward return, but nobody makes a thing like this, unless I but a take off plate & simply make a piece of pipe up as a loop return
opinions ?
PS : the actual cost doesn't look big.....maybe £100 ?
Taz