Oil Bypass & Coolant Filter Installation

[JayB]

I'm ready to start bombing the new 05 and need some advice. I'm very familiar with the Ford 7. 3 but this is my first Cummins. Where is the best place to tie into oil pressure for the bypass filter and the best return location? I'm also going to add a coolant filter, does the Cummins require anti-cavitation additives? When I finish installing all the extra filters I'll move on to gages and exhaust and etc, etc. Thanks for your help. Jeff

 

[amsoilman]

I'm ready to start bombing the new 05 and need some advice. I'm very familiar with the Ford 7. 3 but this is my first Cummins. Where is the best place to tie into oil pressure for the bypass filter and the best return location? I'm also going to add a coolant filter, does the Cummins require anti-cavitation additives? When I finish installing all the extra filters I'll move on to gages and exhaust and etc, etc. Thanks for your help. Jeff

Pressure Source to By-Pass:

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Return from By-Pass:



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Wayne

amsoilman

 

[p-Bar]

John S makes a nice mount for the Amsoil bypass with a billet oil filter adapter. This mount on the engine block to eliminate the noise from the bypass unit . E mail me and I can send you Pics.

 

[rbattelle]

This mount on the engine block to eliminate the noise from the bypass unit.

Where on the block?



-Ryan

 

[p-Bar]

First time sending pics. Hope resolution is ok. I plan on making heat shield to deflect heat from exhaust manifold. Mounts to unused tapped holes in the head.

 

[mberry]

I'm ready to start bombing the new 05 and need some advice. I'm very familiar with the Ford 7. 3 but this is my first Cummins. Where is the best place to tie into oil pressure for the bypass filter and the best return location? I'm also going to add a coolant filter, does the Cummins require anti-cavitation additives? When I finish installing all the extra filters I'll move on to gages and exhaust and etc, etc. Thanks for your help. Jeff

Jeff,



The previous post is good for the oil bypass. The Cummins does not require any coolant additives. I think a coolant filter is not required either. I don't recall any posts about coolant related failures but it certainly couldn't hurt and I'm not trying to talk you out of it.



Change your oil and filters regularly and you will get a very long life out of your Cummins engine.

 

[p-Bar]

I like the idea of coolant filters. There is sand in the water jacket from the casting that will leach out. Racor makes a unit that alot of the big rigs use.

 

[mberry]

I know they couldn't hurt. Just seems TO ME that money for that filter could be spent elsewhere TO ME. My opinion only.

 

[TCDiesel]

Try This, (Plate and Fin only). Also look at the first picture the positive cable wore through the loom covering.

 

[JayB]

I'd like to thank everyone for their replys. I'm going to install Baldwin bypass and coolant filters as I did on my ford. The oil samples have always come back from Blackstone indicating half the universal average for wear metals using the Amsoil 5W30HDD. I'm going to use the 5W40 Mobil 1 (Delvac 1) in the dodge and see how that works out now that its available at Walmart. I also run Evans coolant and a zero pressure system on my 7. 3 and may eventually do the same with the new truck. I cut open the first coolant filter I installed when it stopped flowing and found alot of sand and other debris, that can't be good for any engine. Is the fuel filter sufficient on these trucks, or should I install another one up stream? Also, whats the exhaust system of choice, I'm setting this truck up for towing, not racing. Thanks again, Jeff