Thread: spacer for oil filters

Put me down for one if there's any left thanks.

Whilst on topic is there any chance someone can post in detail about the hole that needs to be placed in the block along with a pic ?

Originally Posted by c.h.i.e.f

Whilst on topic is there any chance someone can post in detail about the hole that needs to be placed in the block along with a pic ?

You can get the idea from this pic. The flow through the bypass filter isn't high so the diameter of the drain hole isn't critical.

Thanks John I had my suspicion it was there that the hole needed to go just by inspecting the filter housing but just need to make 100% sure before I go drill a hole in the block...I was thinking about a 12mm hole ??

Originally Posted by the_grubb

I had to make up a few of the top oil spacers, so I made a batch. 60mm thick out of Aluminium.

Have a couple left if anyone is looking....

Just a heads up. On Offender90's and my blocks we found that the top spacer needed to be ~4 mm thinner than the bottom spacer.

You can see in Bojan's pics that the bottom spacer is 5x12 mm steel = 60 mm. The top spacer is 4x12 mm, and an outermost platen which has been filed down from 12 mm to about 8 mm = ~56 mm.

It was lots of hard work on Bojan's part as we found out the hard way! I instead used 4x12 mm and made some extra plates out of thin aluminium to get to 56 mm.








If you have a truck block then this likely won't be the case.