Coolant filter install
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From: memphis
Originally posted by fast freddie
Horsecop, I took a look at the NAPA set up today and I thought it was ok. What do you like better about the other one? I can get the one at Napa for $29. How much is the other one?
Horsecop, I took a look at the NAPA set up today and I thought it was ok. What do you like better about the other one? I can get the one at Napa for $29. How much is the other one?
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From: East Hampton, NY
So Cookie, how is this thing plumbed?
From your pics, it looks like your "in" line into the filter is coming from the water pump, and its getting returned into the degas bottle. I guess the water pump is pre plumbed with a pressure output port that you can use (like the one for an oil bypass filter)?
I'm curious, cause I've seen another coolant filter setup that tapped into the heater core lines but this seems neater. Do you size NPT fitting you used to take-off from the water pump(if its NPT)?
Thanks very much.
-Shawn
From your pics, it looks like your "in" line into the filter is coming from the water pump, and its getting returned into the degas bottle. I guess the water pump is pre plumbed with a pressure output port that you can use (like the one for an oil bypass filter)?
I'm curious, cause I've seen another coolant filter setup that tapped into the heater core lines but this seems neater. Do you size NPT fitting you used to take-off from the water pump(if its NPT)?
Thanks very much.
-Shawn
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From: Phoenix, AZ
SMB,
You are right. Cookie and I have the same set up from dieselsitetoo.com.
There is a port just below the thermostat housing that is plugged.
The kit comes comes complete with the NPT connectors, hose and clamps. I purchased and installed the optional valves for my install.
The coolant exits the filter head and taps into the degas bottle line.
You will have to fabricate some kind of bracket if you don't have, or don't want to bolt into your filter intake horn.
You are right. Cookie and I have the same set up from dieselsitetoo.com.
There is a port just below the thermostat housing that is plugged.
The kit comes comes complete with the NPT connectors, hose and clamps. I purchased and installed the optional valves for my install.
The coolant exits the filter head and taps into the degas bottle line.
You will have to fabricate some kind of bracket if you don't have, or don't want to bolt into your filter intake horn.
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Hey cookie88 have a quick question if you see this. I bought the filter kit from napa, I was wondering do you have to run it from that plug on the side of the water pump or can I fun th filter in line with the heater element or is that to much pressure for the filter.Is the way you installed it the only correct way to do it?
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Is the way you installed it the only correct way to do it?
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Good question. I don't know the flow rates for the filter. In that set up I would be worried about backpressure in the heater core in the event that the filter couldn't support the flow rates.
Do you already have something plugged into the side of the pump, or you just don't want to use it?
Do you already have something plugged into the side of the pump, or you just don't want to use it?
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From: East Hampton, NY
I would guess you could go to NAPA or the like. If a filter # is 4070 then they could look up the filter base for you. Then its just a matter of some hose and the fittings. I wouldn't put the filter in-line. I don't think it flows like the rest of the system. Kinda like an oil bypass I suspect. From what cookie was saying about the pressure, and what I saw at another site, with two tee's you can tap into the heater core in and out lines and put the filter there.
-Shawn
-Shawn
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Unlucky,
Why don't you just buy the complete kit from Dieselsitetoo or another vendor that has everything you need and be done with it?
Really, how much money can you possibly save by running all over town and piecing it together yourself? $20 -$30?
Why don't you just buy the complete kit from Dieselsitetoo or another vendor that has everything you need and be done with it?
Really, how much money can you possibly save by running all over town and piecing it together yourself? $20 -$30?
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Maybe so, maybe not. I put together an oil bypass with napa stuff for $73 with a big filter. Unless the coolant filter head is less than the oil filter head, it will probably cost close to the same. I know with me its not so much the money, but the sense of satisfaction that goes along with doing it yourself.
Not to be confused with the sense of satisfaction that goes along with doing it to yourself
Yeah buddy!
How sophmoric. Sorry.
-Shawn
Not to be confused with the sense of satisfaction that goes along with doing it to yourself
Yeah buddy!How sophmoric. Sorry.
-Shawn
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Here is a little infomation for the do-it-your-selfer, like me.
If you go to NAPA you want to get the filter base #4763. It will fit the #4070 filter and the #4074 filter w/ SCA conditioner. For the hoses you want to get one that has a 250 deg temp rating, most of the hoses that auto parts stores have will not work. Go to a performance shop and get some of the aeroquip hose. The fitting in the housing hear the water pump is a 3/8 NPT. Any questions let me know.
If you go to NAPA you want to get the filter base #4763. It will fit the #4070 filter and the #4074 filter w/ SCA conditioner. For the hoses you want to get one that has a 250 deg temp rating, most of the hoses that auto parts stores have will not work. Go to a performance shop and get some of the aeroquip hose. The fitting in the housing hear the water pump is a 3/8 NPT. Any questions let me know.
