Remote oil filters

[Chris.]

I'd very much like to reposition the oil filter on my Volvo D1-30. It's a spin-on cartridge and a real PITA as it's almost hard up against the side of the engine compartment, difficult to access and I spill oil every time I change the filter.
Googling around tells me that remote oil filter kits exist, which include adapaters, hose and a remote filter mount, but they seem to be mostly for the hotrod and 4WD community.
Anybody got any knowledge of marine suitable kits?
CM

[Ian McColgin]

All my boats have a remote filter that's just seperatly plumbed after the oil pump, which happened to be external with hoses in and out. Very easy to loop in a filter. I actually have two in series so that the second is considerably finer and I don't need to change the engin mounted filter - probably not at all but I get at it every third year or so on general principles.

[Bob Adams]

Go to a cross referance and see if any autos use that filter. Then do a search for a remote oil filter adapter for that car. What is the number of the filter?

[Canoeyawl]

There are lots of aftermarket remote filters out there. Both Donaldson and Wix offer a remote filter head, no problem.
Be advised that different engines use different filters, they may look similar but in fact there are probably fifty "will fit" filters for your application.
They have varying pressure for the internal bypass valve and may or may not use an anti-drainback valves. Do your homework and learn exactly which replacement filter will have the same specs as the OEM filter.
Then after the remote filter is mounted have steel braided hydraulic lines made up with crimped fittings to finish the plumbing. (Hose clamps and non-steel braided lines are just asking for failure sooner or later).

[Hunky Dory]

My 92 S-10 pickup has a factory remote filter and should be easy to adapt to a different application. All the v6 models had them as space was tight in the lower corner with the steering shaft.

[Chris.]

Thanks all. I'll do a bit more checking around when i have some time later this evening and pay attention to the filter specs. FYI, the filter number is 3840525.
My first call had been to Volvo here, but they knew nothing of any remote fitments either OEM or after-market. Any recommended cross-reference sites?
CM

[CalebD]

Might/could be adapted on your Volvo: http://www.atomic4.com/oilfilter.html

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

There's no reason not to use the hotrod remote filter set ups, and just change the filter to suit the kit. The high performance remote filter kits are better than a stock engine filter setup anyway.

[Soundman67]

http://www.livermoreperformance.com/..._adapters.html

just one place i found when i googled

[dpincus]

The remote kit is not what is critical. There are many sources for nice billet aluminum remote kits. The key is finding the right filters. Canoeyawl hit it right on the head in #4, follow his advice. I put a nice double remote filter kit on my westerbeke 40 and had a good 10 degree drop in operating temp (which was good) due to the much larger filters I was able to use (went from 1/2 pint to one quart per filter!) and the better air cooling around the filters. Being bulkhead mounted the filters are much easier to change, and I was able to find MUCH cheaper filters that still had the specs I wanted. The savings in filter costs offsets the cost of the remote kit. Consider using a double filter set, one with a very fine filter and the other with a coarse filter. The pair make a bypass unit that REALLY cleans up the oil nicely. To make a bypass unit they have to be run in "parallel". The downside of this type of setup is that you end up replacing the fine filter twice as often as the coarse, but filters are cheap in comparison to engines.


Dave

[Chris.]

Thanks again. I'm going to go with an after-market solution to this problem. Not sure whether I have the room for a dual filter setup, but will closely check specs of available filters which fit the remote mount.
CM