The sheet recomends an 801 for our trucks, and all the others.

Does anyone think it will be a big deal if i use an 802 instead?
I want the extra oil capacity.

Does anyone know the Oil Guard numbers for these as well?

I was told the Oil guard is the same unit and you can use the racor filters?

 

The bigger one should be no problem since they both run a .040 restriction.

 

One of the major distributors for Racor is in California near Fresno - Modesto.

I have A Racor on a 92 F250 diesel and they were very helpful in providing filter references , and other issues.

I ended up with filters from them cause they sold me a case of filters very cheap.

 

well, the RACOR is expensive compared to its OilGuard duplicate.

Thanks for the info guys.

Anyone know the part number equiv, or where to find it?

 

What are the benefits of this system? Just better filtration or is there something else?

 

Bypass systems clean the soot and micro particals that your full flow 20micron filter miss.

the racor system here is the best one i've found, there filter is a staged filter, meaning it is bigger where the oil starts in, and gets down to 3 microns towards the middle where the oil goes back to the system.
Soot is one of the worse things for our engines, it stays small at first, but they eventually group up and start causing damage.
The say that particles from 3-10 microns are the worse on our trucks.

Bypass systems are supposed to help with better oil filtration of the system and they also help allow the additives to work better because they are not trying to break down things like soot all the time, cause thats now stuck in the filter.

Getting the additive package to last is the main goal in our trucks seeing as hard as the HPOP is on the system and the HEUI system.

So by that, i wanna run the 802 to get a higher capacity, more oil will take longer to break down, follow?

I'd like to hit at least 6-8k OCI's instead of 3-4k OCI's

I went to far on the last set of oil, but didn't have money to change it.
Shortly i'ma switch to schaefers as well and go full synthetic.
This should help in the long run on my truck, IMO.

any more info you looking for?

As far as I can tell from tim's setup, our trucks are already setup to run a bypass system.

 

That's what it sounded like but just wanted to make sure I wasn't thinking of somehting else. So basically its adding more oil to the system and adding an extra filter to the system so that the oil will in theory last longer and hense increase OCI's. Sounds like a good upgrade to me, what ball park are you looking at price wise?

 

The actual Racor filter is like 350-400 I think.
The oilguard version of the same thing is like 250 I believe.

See, it only filters 5-10% of the oil flow. The full flow filter is only 20 microns, so basically you take 5-10% of the oil per cycle and bypass it to the bypass filter where its filtered by a 3-5micron filter basically.

 

Oh ok, that was going to be my next question. So it wouldn't be any more taxing on the pump because of the added restriction. And that's not to bad of a price, it wouldn't take to long for it to start paying for itself just by extending oil service intervals.

 

yea, thats what i was asking about which tim answered.

To much flow is bad.
they say 5-10%

 

These filters mount to a filter head unit I'm assuming? As to what Talyn said, if so could you just get the OilGuard filter mount. etc and run the 802 filter on it?

 

Curious - where do these setup s connect into the oil system?

 

Right by the oil filter.

It's a bypass, so you just hook it up into the flow and It will take its % of the flow and dump back into the pan.

 

It takes oil off the filter head and puts it back in the plug in the block to the oil pan. I use the FS2500 and it filters 10% of the oil that goes thru the regular oil filter.

 

I have a Racor 801 and plan on putting it on my 97 F250 7.3L. Maybe the biggest issue I have "so Far" is Where can I put it? It is large and the bracket is on it but where do people put them. Oldbird1965 you hooked one line to the plug on the engine filter housing and the return to the plug in the block? What did you use for the oil line? Mine didn't come with fittings or line. I need to know what fittings to buy and what to use for the oil line. Is shut off valves needed?