Heres a Gulf Coast TP Bypass filter installed on my 97 Dodge 2500 Ram Cummins. I change it every 1000 miles. It takes less than 3 mins. and NO MESS... cost 50 cents + a QT of oil

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Has anyone actually ever had a MB transmission power flushed on their car? I was told never to have this done since it may cause damage. I was always told to drain the torque converter and the trannny and put in a new filter and let it go at that.

I know a local mechanic who has a power flush machine. He says the put the car on the rack and then put it in drive and run the new fluid through the valve body and tranny. I think they put the new fluid in the machine and there is a resevoir for the old fluid.

How does the flush machine keep the old and new fluid from mixing?
And how does it keep the tranny from running dry if they are pumping fluid out before pumping new fluid in? It would seem the two fluids would mix while running a flush cycle?

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2002 Honda Accord SE
1974 Toro Wheel Horse Tractor
2000 Toyota Tundra Pickup

I want to see some pictures of a FRANZ install on a Benz diesel if anyone has any to see where the hoses are mounted and where the filter mounts.

PLEASE!!!!

I had a great conversation with the owner of the FRANZ company today. Her dad brought it back to the market and then he died. She is keeping the filter going. It does use toilet paper. It is a tight roll like Scott Tissue to keep the oil from finding the path of least resistance. She has paper inserts specially made with a thicker core center and tight rolled. The filter comes with nine rolls. One in the filter plus 8 more.

We are thinking of T ing off the upper oil canister oil cooler line. We need a fitting to go from that metric to a 1/8NPT fitting. And then it needs another end for the upper oil cooler line. You drill a hole in your oil filler cap and then put a return fitting there. There is a reducer in the line so it does not take all your oil, only a small amount so oil pressure is not affected. The filter would sit between the upper pressure fed line and the return thru the oil filler cap. That dumps it into the timing chain and cam shaft area.

You change the filter every 3000 miles. A trucker has three of these in parallel and does analysis on his oil. He has gone over 200,000 miles without a change because the oil is like new. He just changes the paper rolls and adds some new oil.

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1982 300SD Light Blue
2002 Honda Accord SE
1974 Toro Wheel Horse Tractor
2000 Toyota Tundra Pickup

Does anyone know the size of the oil cooler line fittings and the thread pitch? I want to see if we can make this franz installation easier.

I want to buy or make a T fitting to go between the upper cooler line at the oil filter canister and the oil cooler line.

Thanks.

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1982 300SD Light Blue
2002 Honda Accord SE
1974 Toro Wheel Horse Tractor
2000 Toyota Tundra Pickup

Seconded! Need some pics please!

Willrev- the oil cooler thermostat is only open under certain temperature conditions... additionally if you examine the oil flow diagram, the oil going to the cooler is direct from the engine (unfiltered) In a perfect world, I'd rather have oil flow thru the main filter then thru the aux filter.

The hard part is where to drill and tap on the 617 oil filter housing to get this main 'filtered' oil. For the return line I'd drill and tap a spot on the headcover approximately over the timing chain sprocket so that the nice clean bypass filtered oil goes directly on the timing chain. (as somone else here wisely suggested.)

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