Ok….Td42’s….fantatistic engine…as my first diesel engine…I love it, after tuning its got decent power, good economy, and as we all know will last until we all use flying cars to get around in.

Saying this….servicing…every 5000kays!!, NOT COOL!…  2 Filters and 8 litres of oil every 5000km really starts to add up!  After thinking about it, I couldnt see how the big rigs would put up with dropping oil so often.  So i did a bit of research and found a thing called a bypass oil filter.   The idea being that it doesnt force all the oil through the filters before getting to the gallerys like the standard stuff, but steals a tiny flow and ’scrubs’ the oil a bit at a time.

There seems to be some really good benefits in this.

1.  Seeing that the bypass filter doesnt imped oil flow,  it can clean the oil sooo much better (something like less than 1 micron filtration)

2.  Can increase oil life substantially, like 2 - 4 times. So 20,000 kays between changes for a Td42…MUCH BETTER!

3.  On the Frantz kit the filters are really only dunny rolls!! So very cheap to replace.

Anyways, ive just emailed Frantz for some pricing and details.  But so far its looking very promising.

Will post again when I get more details.