Thread: 2.25 oil filter upgrade to spin on filter

Originally Posted by S3ute

To be honest - until I spoke to Paxton I thought the adaptor ETC 5347 only came on the 2.5 litre diesels and petrols in the early 90/110s . Apparently, the same part is fitted to the 200TDI motors - his advice, I caution to add, not mine.

When I asked for the correct filter number for ETC 5347 it was given as ERR 3340, which I had also seen once before in a UK parts listing. My hesitation over the numbers in a previous post was because there were various a,b, c etc suffixes with the ERR 3340 filter.

Anyway, I am happy to go with my adaptor, because the fellow I bought it from in Harare said "Yaas baas, dat de one fo de 2.25 mota" and he was a pretty good with his Land Rovers. The advice on the filter came in plainer English, but I have to take it on faith with similar veracity.

Cheers,

ERR3340 cross references to Z89A
Filter Cross Reference : Air Filters, Oil Filters and Fuel Filters :: Ryco Filters :: Automotive Filters Australia

The suffix is probably just the length. e.g. a Z89A is basically a shorter version of a Z9.

A Z9-type filter fits easily on my RM adaptor, and is probably the lowest cost oil filter type on the market.

Wash my mouth out with a brick, but if a z9 fits then consider a pre 96 filter for a 1FZ-FE engine for an 80 series Toyota
Their OEM filters are some of the best around.
Just buy a texta to blank out the branding

Off topic slightly......
I picked up a couple of the standard filters today that were NOS but missing the O-ring seal.
They have a magnet in the centre to 'catch' any metal particles. Called a Magna Filter they appear to originate from SA.

Colin

a bit of an update,
got the replacement oil filter adaptor after a small Christmas postage blockage and after some interference from work, I got to remove the old adaptor and tried to fit the new adaptor.
after cleaning the old gasket off I found that the screw which holds the oil pump and distributor drive gear had loosened and was sitting proud on the mounting face.
so after consulting the Haynes book that came with the car [must get a real manual] I elected to remove the sump.
with the sump off I then needed to remove the oil pump to see what was happening with this problem and some research here discovered that the screw located a bush on the gear which holds the drive gear in place.
so a bit of fiddling, well really ages of fiddling , I managed to get the bush in the right place and the screw back in.


more fiddling and I have modified the top plug on the housing to fit an oil pressure hose and am ready to fit the adaptor then the oil pump and finally the sump, after a trip out to buy some material to make a new sump gasket from.




all this was made easier by not having any of the front axle in the car, but that is another story...

ok, step back a bit again.
I sorted the loose bush and refitted the sump and filled it.
lets start it up.....nup!


after some research I found the dissy was not keeping up with the engine when cranking...


also remembered that I forgot to bend the tabs on the oil pump.


oil out, sump off, distributor out.


after some measuring and re reading the previous owners notes, I have come to the conclusion that dodgy motors fitted a distributor that is too short, so to get the thing to drive they lifted the drive gear by loosening the drive gear securing screw and lifted the gear about half an inch and then jammed the bush with the screw.
this way the drive gear was still being driven by the camshaft on the lower part of the gear, when I refitted the drive gear screw correctly the dissy doesn't get driven......
now I have a major hiccup..
I could cheat and redrill the drive gear bush to locate it higher like they just jammed it, but would prefer to do it correctly, so if someone has a standard distributor, I would like to take some measurements to confirm my suspicions.




toddles off to console oneself after a whole days seemingly useless crawling under and over a little land rover, is there anymore of that chinese whiskey in the cellar?

Any more to the story?

Originally Posted by Carzee

Any more to the story?

yes, there is, but as I thought this was going away from the original thread title, I started a new thread.
's2a oil pump/distributor drive problem' in this section.


basically , dodgy motors lost a part and jammed the drive gear higher.
see the other thread.

fitted mine (off a 200TDi) up to madge this afternoon..

down to one type of oil filter to keep in the landy cupboard..

was a pita to fit but replacing a filter is going to be so much quicker cleaner and simply easier overall...

and i can easily fit an oil cooler later if i want