OilGuard bypass filters

[Big O]

Has anyone on the board tried these yet? Sounds like a good deal and fair price, if the claims are true. I did not see if it is mounted pre/post oem--anyone know? http://www.oilguard.com/index.php

[Hound]

I've got one sitting at the house. I've been waiting till it dries out a bit to put it on. If yours is a 4WD make SURE you state that when you order as there is a 90 degree fitting that is used on the 4WD kit. Otherwise the 90 degree fitting doesn't come with it.
It's not pre or post oem as the oil is circulated back through the system repeatedly. Not quite like the case of a fuel filter where the goal is a clean consumable. It is a bypass off of the OEM filter block that takes some oil and passes it through the bypass element. After a certain number of cycles all of the oil is eventually processed through the bypass element. Make any sense?

[jbplock]

I have an OilGuard Bypass filter installed on my truck (for about 4k miles). See the following link for a complete description of the installation.

http://forum.thedieselpage.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=005320

Also Click on “pictures” in my signature – included with the install pics is a shot of the oil on the dipstick after about 3.2kmiles … still looks very clean. I’ll be sending in a sample for analysis soon and will post results.
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[Big O]

Makes sense to me. Please post sample results later. Thanks,

[a bear]

Took a sample w/o the bypass and got the results posted here somewhere. Just sent in a sample with the same miles on the oil with the Oil Guard installed. Should see the results in a couple days. If the samples need improvement I'm sure the non Mega mouse pushers will chime in with a Racor recommendation. Could even cancel future sampling. RACORS filter data would tell me it's working. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: