I'm looking for a good remote oil filter kit - preferably one where I can swap the filter from inside the engine compartment and (if possible) avoid getting on my creeper to remove the drain plug to let the oil out. I know I saw one a long time ago (for a car, but I'm sure there's one for trucks) where you could slide a pan underneath the car, and pull/push/something a cable that would unstop the drain hole to let the oil out...make sense?

I'll settle for just the remote oil filter kit and deal with the creeper if I have to..any reccommendations?

-Al

 

Wow, I love this website - 29 reads and not one single response other than mine.

 

That's funny. But seriously, you should do a search. I didn't reply cause I haven't done it. But I do remember reading about a topic like that one started a while back. Have you done a search before? If you are reading this, go to the top of the page and click that search button. The rest is up to you. I think you will find what you are looking for. If you find, you don't have immediate responses in cases just like this, the search is your next best step. Hope this helps and good luck.

I make frequent trips to Houston. And hopefully soon, I'll be moving there. Hope to see you around.

-Joel

 

AMSOil makes a good kit for a dual remote bypass filter setup. THere is a part that screws into the spot where the filter goes normally and from there, hoses run up to the filter mount. The filters, both standard & bypass, attach vertically into the mount and there is a pet**** on the top should you want to do extended drain intervals determined by oil testing (they have kits for that too).

They're not cheap (I can find out the price if you like), but with the bypass filter and using the AMSOil filter & oil, you can go for a long time on a change. They recommend just having the oil analysis done every 25,000 miles (replacing the standard oil fitler at 12,500).

Chuck

 

Yes Amsoil makes a remote system. Here is pic of it

 

Many thanks for the responses! I've gotten some good information.

As far as the Amsoil goes - I poked around on their website a bit and it looks like they're recommending running synthetics...which I'm not really familiar with. Anyone care to fill me in?

 

Howdy Houston,




I use this to drain my oil, replaces the engine oil drain plug. I drain the oil back into the quart containers. I purchased the valve with the nipple an attach a short piece of hose to it.

 

Well with that filtration system, the full flow filter filters all the oil. The other filter--a by-pass only filters about 10% at any time, but what it does is super cleans the oil removing contaminants down to 1/10 of a micron. 60% of wear is caused between 5 and 20 microns.

When you use synthetics you have better high and low temperature protection. Better oxidation resistance, less chance of sludge build up. Also some synthetics like amsoil have extra addtives that can last longer than what they put in conventional oils. Actually Amsoil recommends a 25,000 mile drain interval without the use of the special filter. This is just using a standard ffull flow filter changed periodically.

With the use of the by-pass filter oil changes can be extended indefinately with the use of oil analysis. There are many customers that have surpassed 100,000 miles without draining the oil. Just changing filters and doing oil analysis.

With the by-pass filter removing virtually all of the wear causing contaminants, engines runn better and with less wear.

Also with the use of synthetics, because they have better lubricating properties, you can look to gain between 5-8% better gas milage. Over the life of your vehicle this can add up to substantial fuel milage savings.

 

Where did you get that spiget for the engine oil drain plug? Any auto parts store?

-Joel

 

http://www.fumotovalve.com/

Get the one with the hose fitting. HTH