Coolant Filter
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Coolant Filter
Anyone taken their bypass coolant filter and made it full time?
I was thinking about moving the lines on my sinister kit to do just that. My only concern is with plugging and restricting flow, so I'd do it on the heater hoses still like the IPR one.
Just curious if anyone else has done it and what results compared to just bypass filtering...
I was thinking about moving the lines on my sinister kit to do just that. My only concern is with plugging and restricting flow, so I'd do it on the heater hoses still like the IPR one.
Just curious if anyone else has done it and what results compared to just bypass filtering...
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I'll admit, I literally just installed mine and haven't even seen what the bypass will do, but flow restriction would be my biggest concern, as well.
Are you having sub-par results with the bypass right now? And by that I should clarify - Are you filtering out enough media to believe that the system is not being effective and that too much is essentially bypassing the bypass?
Are you having sub-par results with the bypass right now? And by that I should clarify - Are you filtering out enough media to believe that the system is not being effective and that too much is essentially bypassing the bypass?
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It would take over a pound of sediment to plug a coolant filter.
The only true way to go full flow is to plumb inline with the hot side heater hose and eliminate the heater valve so it runs full hot at all times.
Josh
The only true way to go full flow is to plumb inline with the hot side heater hose and eliminate the heater valve so it runs full hot at all times.
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Correct me if I'm wrong Josh but in essence that is still a bypass filter system. The only way too truely go full flow, 100%, is in the radiator return line. There use to be a filter designed for that explicit purpose, I forget the name now, but I would be leary of full flow filters with the amount of water the 6.0 moves. Those return filters, inlet and outlet, were actually the diameter of the return hose.
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True, not full flow like the radiator hose. But I wouldn't trust that.
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I'll admit, I literally just installed mine and haven't even seen what the bypass will do, but flow restriction would be my biggest concern, as well.
Are you having sub-par results with the bypass right now? And by that I should clarify - Are you filtering out enough media to believe that the system is not being effective and that too much is essentially bypassing the bypass?
Are you having sub-par results with the bypass right now? And by that I should clarify - Are you filtering out enough media to believe that the system is not being effective and that too much is essentially bypassing the bypass?
Not really sub-par, but with out heat on now, you get no real flow through there. So most of the summer is no filtration. It works as is, and gets sediment out, but if we can do better, why not??
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My XDP filter is prior to the heater valve and that sun-of-gun is hot as soon as the coolant is hot, no matter what I'm doing heater-wise...
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No, it's prior. But if the heater valve is closed, you just don't get much flow through the filter.
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I picked up one of those nifty non-contact thermometers. I think I'll play around with it some and let you know if there's any real difference, temperature-wise with the heater on or off...
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Correct me if I'm wrong Josh but in essence that is still a bypass filter system. The only way too truely go full flow, 100%, is in the radiator return line. There use to be a filter designed for that explicit purpose, I forget the name now, but I would be leary of full flow filters with the amount of water the 6.0 moves. Those return filters, inlet and outlet, were actually the diameter of the return hose.
The heater circuit is actually pretty good as it feeds right off the WP and being 5/8-3/4" has decent volume compared to using the EGR vent line or the small degas line.
Only issue with the heater circuit is having a hot heater core effecting. A/C output.
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Silly question but why would you need a full flow coolant filter? Once it's clean, it's clean.
Most that I have seen who ran a coolant filter plugged the first one in a month, then the second in about 2 months, then the third never really went anywhere.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Most that I have seen who ran a coolant filter plugged the first one in a month, then the second in about 2 months, then the third never really went anywhere.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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Silly question but why would you need a full flow coolant filter? Once it's clean, it's clean.
Most that I have seen who ran a coolant filter plugged the first one in a month, then the second in about 2 months, then the third never really went anywhere.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Most that I have seen who ran a coolant filter plugged the first one in a month, then the second in about 2 months, then the third never really went anywhere.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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I plugged two of them with either casting sand or some type of black grit. The first one in under 500 miles and the 2nd one in less than 1500 miles. Inlet hose hot and filter and outlet hose stone cold. I'd say that that was close enough to plugged.
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And what the heck happened to your sig line? Did it go wherever the smileys went for awhile???!
