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    Oil Filter Thread

    If I make the plate simple, I could always CAD it up and load the file up here for others to copy. Being RHD won't affect how it works and fits.
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    Oil Filter Thread

    What I'm thinking will work, is I buy the Trans-dapt kit like Wild One suggested. Get a local hydraulic hose mob to crimp me some 90deg or maybe 45deg swivel ends onto 5/8" hose, and screw some 5/8" M-M fittings into the Trans-dapt engine end piece for the swivel bends to bolt to. Then make up a...
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    Synthetic Oil

    One thing I have noticed with my Ram (5.7) is if I park it on an angle, that is when it'll tick. So when I do park it nose down, I give it full throttle and crank it, ECU stops it from starting. Crank it for about 3-5sec, and then stop cranking, then start it normally. No tick.
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    Oil Filter Thread

    We can for older stuff, but not new. I can import a '57 Chevy or a 1988 Chevy/GMC or similar as LHD. But newer stuff cannot be done. Holden had GMC Suburbans converted in Mexico from memory in the late 90's and sold as Holden Suburban as new vehicles. They also had GMC 2500 cab-chassis around...
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    Oil Filter Thread

    They are remanufactured. under licence and approval from Stellantis. They are sold as new vehicles. The process on the 1500 DS saw the steering rack flipped so the bulky section of it is directly under the oil filter. Makes it near impossible to get a bigger filter in there.
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    Oil Filter Thread

    I did put photos up here of it on post 984, page 50. 20-820 won't fit. Still running a 10-48. I re-read your posts from back then to jog my memory of that kit and the swivels would probably work. Will go and do some more wok on it.
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    Oil Filter Thread

    Most of the world is Metric today. Imperial stuff is still around and entrenched but lost more metric today than anything else. The imperial Z9 filter is a very common filter though, just about every old Ford in Australia used it.
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    Oil Filter Thread

    I get that and I appreciate the advice, but that does mean more work, more travel, more hassle hence more time I really do not have at the moment. I doubt there is a farm implement dealer within 100kM of me! And if they are the chances of them being open outside business hours is unlikely. I...
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    Oil Filter Thread

    Will have a look. I like the fact it uses the good old and cheaper filters but it looks like more work to make it fit. I don't want straight fittings either at the engine, won't work well with the RHD conversion and its flipped steering rack.
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    Oil Filter Thread

    Just a question. I'm going to order one of the Pacbrake filter relocation setups. They take filters with the standard M22 x 1.5 threads. What filter would I use with this? The 20-820 (I can buy these from Royal Purple Australia) or the 20-500 which I can buy through Amazon a little cheaper?
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    Synthetic Oil

    Agree. Decent battery tech for a city commuter is not too far away. For a Ram replacement, that is not coming soon.
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    Synthetic Oil

    Bingo. Before ICE's became mainstream we had external combustion engines (steam) and we had battery electric cars, I'm talking early 1900's. But the batteries were rubbish making the ICE's far more flexible. And big oil dominated for 100+ years. And batteries are still rubbish, at least compared...
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    Synthetic Oil

    Exactly! At one stage Mitsubishi in Australia were giving 10 year full warranty. You factor in the final runouts of a series/model and some of those cars would still be in warranty 11-12 years after they stopped building it. There would be no service engines or transmissions left by then...
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    Synthetic Oil

    Our local engines didn't as we didn't get ULP until late in 1987. The imported engines did. The L48 (350 4BBL) changed from the 1969-70 10.25:1 350hp version into the same 8.5:1 270hp version that appeared in 1971 model year in the USA (ie from September 1970). Pretty much all of the mainstream...
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    Synthetic Oil

    All I hear is AVOID.
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