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Well I have to post and say that this is a serious kit, and definitely THE way to do it for a 3rd gen. I got the bmk 15 dual bypass kit from Amsoil, and the billet filter mount and mounting kit from CPFF/John Strenkowski.



THE KIT IS 100% BOLT ON, repeat - no drilling, no tapping, no funny oil cap with a fitting in it.



Basically it's a bmk-15 kit, but John makes his own(stronger/better) billet oil filter mount adapter, which screws directly where your old stratapore was, onto the oil filter mounting threads. From this comes two fittings, which hoses run from, to the bypass filter head from Amsoil. The bypass filter head unit is bolted to the truck with one bolt and a custom plate John has. The location is totally protected, and the hose runs to the filter mount are as SHORT as possible. Both are just 13", and are in a relatively straight line. All of Amsoils hydraulic hose fittings are used, which once you set up right, should be pretty unflappable.



Whats best is that John's kit comes with about 13 pages of instructions, with PICTURES of each step of the install, to guide you thru. This is no half japanese half english tech babble instruction sheet Anyone ever put together a desk from office depot they bought in a box? :D



I will post pics a little later. I'm not sure if I can post his info or prices or what, but if I can let me know and if not PM me. I stand to make no money from this, but I wanted to recommend John and his kit because it's great, and he custom makes them just for Dodge Cummins! He also helped walk me thru the install yesterday(a sunday afternoon) and was totally patient and helpful. I guess he makes some kind of 'killer dowel pin' for 2nd gens, although I have no idea what that is. ;)
 
Though I am not familiar with the 3rd gen setup John "CPFF" has I am with his 2nd gen setup. He is one of the nicest guys I have ever dealt with. Not to mention that billet adapter is darn near a piece of art. Yes he was the one who originally created the dowel pin jig and provided several of them for free to the various regions of the US for us TDR users to use them. If I recall correctly he was also the first to source the vacumn pump to ps pump seal(I think if you could find the actual seal type you could only get them in lots of 25 but he would sell them individually), which would save you the expense of buying that big dollar vacumn pump when the seal went out. Huge KUDOS to John for his service and expertise to us TDR members.
 
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Lets see those pictures! Anyone running this setup with a road armor bumper? I'm just wondering if there will be clearance problems. Thx
 
Sshelly et all - I have updated my readers rigs with a section containing a few pictures of this install. Yes, the dynamat looks silly but its provided a nice little damper between the hoses and the frame =]
 
I ended up using ss braided line for my hoses and to prevent chafing (which they will chaf anything they come in contact with) I ran them through some pieces of heater hose or the like that was big enough to slide the oil lines through yet snug enough to stay in place. I just used the pieces of heater hose where the oil lines were going to rest or rub on something else.
 
Thats the reason I didn't use SS hoses, as they are not good when touching. These will be fine. I also didn't install the plastic hose covers that came with the kit, for the sake of the pics.
 
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