PwrSmoke
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I have a Racor LSF RK873F engine oil bypass filter to try out on my 6.9L. Am pondering the best pressure and return line hookup points.
The Racor instructions are kinda generic and not well illustrated, but they seem to show hooking the pressure side to the same place on the block where the oil sender (and turbo feed) line goes. The return looks like it goes to the small 1/8-in plug in the lower part of the block, just above the pan rail and forward of where the oil filter/cooler bolts to the block. Questions:
1) Does that 1/8 inch plug in the block go straight through into the crankcase, or somewhere else?
2) There's a plug on the filter housing, just above the filter facing forward. Does that tap into the dirty side of the oil flow as it appears to?
3) Would teeing in a bypass filter (w/a .040 orifice to the oil pressure sender/turbo oil feed line down on the block near the bellhousing starve the turbo for oil?
Still researching these things in my manual, but I don's seem to see the direct answers there. Some of you guys that have had the lower ends apart on the IDIs might know the answer easily.
The Racor instructions are kinda generic and not well illustrated, but they seem to show hooking the pressure side to the same place on the block where the oil sender (and turbo feed) line goes. The return looks like it goes to the small 1/8-in plug in the lower part of the block, just above the pan rail and forward of where the oil filter/cooler bolts to the block. Questions:
1) Does that 1/8 inch plug in the block go straight through into the crankcase, or somewhere else?
2) There's a plug on the filter housing, just above the filter facing forward. Does that tap into the dirty side of the oil flow as it appears to?
3) Would teeing in a bypass filter (w/a .040 orifice to the oil pressure sender/turbo oil feed line down on the block near the bellhousing starve the turbo for oil?
Still researching these things in my manual, but I don's seem to see the direct answers there. Some of you guys that have had the lower ends apart on the IDIs might know the answer easily.