Been lurking for awhile. Just brought home a 73 Scout, v8, auto. Needs work but the price was right. The story is better. Gonna be a slow project. Got it from my Dad, building it for my 10 year old son. Cleaned it up this evening and we were pleasantly surprised with the condition of most everything. Gonna need a few things before we try to fire it up and I'm thinking change the oil. Is there a remote filter adapter for IH v8's so I can go twin filter and get the filter(s) up where they are easier to deal with? Go easy on me gentlemen, I'm new to the IH world. Perhaps this has already been covered?-norcal911
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Scoutboy74
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Welcome. There's nothing IH specific that I know of in terms of a remote oil filter setup. Seems like fixing something that ain't broke, but if you had to have it, you could buy whatever one suited your fancy and plumb it in the most logical manner. Ive never found the stock filter all that difficult to access from underneath.
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Hey! Congratulations on getting a Scout! What part of nor-cal are you in? Pm me if you don't want to answer publicly. I saw a Scout go through live oak on a trailer a couple days ago, just wondering if that was you.
Just something I've always done on my project vehicles. More to add twin filters and capacity than really relocating it. May be totally worthless but I've mostly tinkered with fast cars and boats and I figured on my first 4x4 that more filter is more better with the dirt and all. Was it the blue one with the white top behind a white Chevy?? That was me. I'm in the sacramento area. It was a gift from my Dad to my son. Got it home and after getting the spiders and mice out of it, its actually in pretty good shape. Very little rust. Probably last ran a couple of years ago. I'm super stoked about it. Gonna be a slow project but hope to get it running soon. The little man is only 10 so I figure we have some time. I'm gonna have lots of dumb-new-to-IH-questions so bare with me. I've have been reading a lot of the posts so I hope to not sound too idiotic-norcal911
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It was a faded blue two tone Scout, didn't notice the tow vehicle
do you plan to attend the rally this year?
http://forums.IHPartsAmerica.com/IH-sierra-fall-rallye/11717-9th-annual-IH-sierra-fall-rallye.html
Have you thought about adding a bypass filter? It would be a lot easier to add because the lines are much smaller. Wix 24755 base and 51050 filter.
do you plan to attend the rally this year?
http://forums.IHPartsAmerica.com/IH-sierra-fall-rallye/11717-9th-annual-IH-sierra-fall-rallye.html
Have you thought about adding a bypass filter? It would be a lot easier to add because the lines are much smaller. Wix 24755 base and 51050 filter.
That was me. Can't even move a Scout around with out you crazies seeing it, it's like the Scout detection bureau or something. We'll see about the rally. Really want to go but got I have to make sure the boss doesn't already have plans for me that I don't know about yet.
I'm not familiar with the bypass filter?? I usually (dealing with sbc/bbc mostly) used a remote oil filter adapter than spun onto where the oil filter usually goes. Ran two lines from that up to a dual ph8a set up and mounted it someplace nice. It looked pretty cool, added an extra layer of filtration and some capacity. Not sure what the bypass accomplishes or how it works. Care to educaate me?
I'm not familiar with the bypass filter?? I usually (dealing with sbc/bbc mostly) used a remote oil filter adapter than spun onto where the oil filter usually goes. Ran two lines from that up to a dual ph8a set up and mounted it someplace nice. It looked pretty cool, added an extra layer of filtration and some capacity. Not sure what the bypass accomplishes or how it works. Care to educaate me?
Scout-It-Out
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The bypass filter can be hooked up to an 1/8npt port like where the oil pressure sensor is. The other line just dumps back into the oil pan. It basically filters a little bit of oil very thoroughly. On old cars it was the only method of filtering. Their theory was that sooner or later all the oil would get filtered!
My Scout usually gets less than 3000 miles a year. So I change the oil once a year or 3k which ever comes first. More often if I do any hard wheeling.
Imo, dual filters (bypass or full flow) would be best suited for an engine using synthetic oil and going longer drain intervals. Synthetic oil on a Scout just leaks out faster, lol
they do make coolant filters if you want more filters
My Scout usually gets less than 3000 miles a year. So I change the oil once a year or 3k which ever comes first. More often if I do any hard wheeling.
Imo, dual filters (bypass or full flow) would be best suited for an engine using synthetic oil and going longer drain intervals. Synthetic oil on a Scout just leaks out faster, lol
they do make coolant filters if you want more filters