Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) oil filter relocation kit

[Texas Diesel]

Any suggestions on where to get an oil filter relocation kit?



I want to move it down to behind the frame cross member for easier access and to stop it from draining back into the sump.



I tried Permacool but their adapter uses two PH8A size filters instead of the OEM filter, it is also fed by 1/2"ID oil lines. Not my first choice.

 

[McDowra]

I change my oil about ever 3 weeks due to the amount of miles I drive. To help save time we came up with this. http://www.citydiesel.net/catalog/dodge/remoteoil.htm



Tim

 

[Texas Diesel]

Tim, thanks for the info, I just emailed a couple of questions to you. This looks like what I want.

 

[GLASMITHS]

Mc:



How do you prefill the filter with it laying on it's side?

 

[Texas Diesel]

My generator and other truck have their oil filters laying on their sides. Prefilling is something I always do and the oil never runs out as long as you fill it and then quickly put it on and keep rotating it. Good news is that the oil fliter, when mounted below the sump, never drains overnight. So starting is always with a full filter. Being a victim of the "knife" ( so called back surgery ) I have a very difficult time wrestling the filter out where it is now.

 

[McDowra]

To be truthful GLASMITHS I never have. I will try next change to see what happens.



Tim

 

[GLASMITHS]

Pre-filling filter

MC: I gues that if you use STP or Motor Honey there is no problem with a dry filter start

 

[NVR FNSH]

Maybe I'm just blessed by the gene's god but at 6'4" but I have no problem accessing the oil filter. In fact, it's the easiest vehicle I've ever owned to change the filter. I remove the hose from the airbox to the compressor and have plenty of room to remove the filter through the top w/o spilling a drop. My Toyota 4wd P/U and my CJ-7 both have horizontal oil filters and those things are the biggest POS/PIA I've ever seen.



Also, if you're spilling oil while removing the filter from it's stock location wouldn't that mean that the oil is not draining back to the sump? The passages will drain but the filter won't.



A rock/stump is going to have to get pretty darn creative to access the filter in the stock location - behind the bumper seems much more vunerable to me.



Brian

 

[GLASMITHS]

BRIAN:



I agree. If you put it on by hand, it will come off that way. Put a 1 gallon zip-lock over it if you spill. I use a small step ladder, I am then 6'4''.