4BE1 twin oil filter

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Originally Posted by rar110

I had a very quick look at Inside's Perentie on Sunday. I think it may have a 6x6 motor fitted with a twin filter setup. The twin filter and oil line had spacers fitted which looked like cast alloy. The bottom spacer had an AYG???? part no in raised lettering/numbering.

Anyone heard of this?

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Peter,
The turbo 6X6 motors had them from factory. The top spacer is AYG0474 and the bottom one is AYG473. BMI stocks the bottom one but I had trouble trying to source a top one.

Peter,

Here's a few photos of the setup isuzurover was talking about. The mounting surfaces on twin oil filter housings (both Ben's and mine) are offset by approx 4mm. So my bottom spacer is 60mm while the top spacer is 56mm. In the pic below, you can see the front plate is thinner than the rest. Might be worthwhile checking if yours is the same.

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Cheers

Bojan

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Originally Posted by rijidij

Does it look like the one in this pic ? I'm guessing it's likely to be the same housing, but not sure. If it is the same and it's in a County then you'll need spacer blocks.

Cheers, Murray

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...010/11/852.jpg

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is there a reason for so many holes...weight?

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Originally Posted by weeds

is there a reason for so many holes...weight?

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For the oil to flow through ;)

See the pic offender90 posted. That is how it would look ideally. I am surprised Rijidij's machinist didn't mill it out like that. I suspect there would be a slight decrease in flow.

Well looks like the bottom spacer is readily available. It is only the top spacer that is difficult to source. Has anyone considered extending the oil feed pipe horizontally instead of fabricating a spacer? Also my oil feed pipe has the same flange at each end as the top flange has no oil feed.

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

For the oil to flow through ;)

See the pic offender90 posted. That is how it would look ideally. I am surprised Rijidij's machinist didn't mill it out like that. I suspect there would be a slight decrease in flow.

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oops, just had a closer look at the one on my bench, there is a little hole right at the back of the large cavity.......

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Originally Posted by weeds

is there a reason for so many holes...weight?

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Yeah, drilling it was the easiest way for me to do it at the time, and it is a heavy chunk of steel. As you can see from the pic of the block below, you don't need a huge cavity for the oil flow.
As I regularly use a laser cutter now, I would probably go the 'sandwich' method next time, but I'll still keep an eye out for some aluminium billet.

Cheers, Murray

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...013/11/366.jpg

thanks murray.....

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Originally Posted by rar110

Well looks like the bottom spacer is readily available. It is only the top spacer that is difficult to source. Has anyone considered extending the oil feed pipe horizontally instead of fabricating a spacer? Also my oil feed pipe has the same flange at each end as the top flange has no oil feed.

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This may be the way to go do a cut and extend the top pipe and buy the bottom spacer the pipe wont be hard to cut and tig in an extension.

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Originally Posted by lokka

This may be the way to go do a cut and extend the top pipe and buy the bottom spacer the pipe wont be hard to cut and tig in an extension.

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Well after having an oil filter housing leak and loosing close to 10L of oil over the weekend ive decided that fitting the twin spin on set up is a must .
I have found that the bottom spacer is available at about $165 from BMI in western sydney tho im going to see if i can get some made up from billet alloy if anyone else is interested let me know .
As for the top im just going to cut and extend the pipe and i can do others if need be just PM me :)