Thanks for this bypass filter info looks goodThe one thing mentioned in all this and I'm very much a believer in, is on all diesels, I highly recommend looking into a oil bypass filter. It takes roughly 10% of your oil from you stock oil filter head and puts it through another filter slower allowing it to filter the oil again alowing it to clean it better and collects alot of the soot that builds in the oil. Soot can be abrasive to the engine and all the moving parts. Then it put it back into the engine a bit cleaner than it normally woud be filtered. If this filter ever gets full and stops the flow, nothing will hapen to the engine, it just keeps filtering like normal until you change it out with a new filter. Normal oil filters will filters around 30 to 40 microns. This is good for normal filtering and flow, but leaves smaller micron material and soot. (I use the Amsoil bp100 bypass filter and it filters it to around 2 microns.)
There are bypass filter system out there that are bolt on and use, but you can actually make a home made filter system of your own. Usually you can get all the parts needed via most parts stores. Most diesel engines 'use to have this as standard' by manufacture, but yeras ago they stopped to reduce weight and cost leaving it up to the buyer to install if they want. I always thought the was stupid of them, but I'm not a manufacture.
If you never put one one, it won't hurt if you change oil and filters when needed, but if you do it will help. The choice is yours. Most people who do, using lab testing of the oil, can extend the miles between oil changes. But changing filters are still important on a constant mileage.
I bought from NUC Motorsports years ago, and attached is the installation paperwork for you. They are out of business now. You can get the idea of the parts needed and set up from it. We did this for my friends Ford 6.0 truck, and modified it to fit. All parts were bought from his local NAPA auo parts store.
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