Hello all:

With as difficult and messy as it is to do an oil change on the V-70 has anyone considered or actually accomplished the installation of a remote oil filter? It would be much nicer to change the filter from the engine compartment rather than a) scrape the air dam on Rhino Ramps b) remove the plastic shield and all its screws c) buy the special Volvo oil filter wrench d) make an oil mess on the driveway that my wife will never forgive. It is an easy thing to suction all the oil from the oilpan through the dipstick - changing the oil filter is an entirely different matter.

Someone did this in a Lexus here:

http://my.is/forums/f90/diy-tutorial...filter-332140/

Any thoughts?

 

Hello, While it's true the splash shield is unwieldy and the filter is encroached upon by the oil pan; it's not that difficult to get to. This remote adaptor appears to come with real cheap looking hose. You're adding 9 sources of leakage to the system (adapter, 2 crimps and 2 threaded fittings on each of 2 hoses). One man suggested having appropriate lengths of #10 hose and good quality 1/2" male fittings made up at a hose shop. Another man reoported, "My friend's engine made funny RPM related noises after installation". I assume one of his hoses collapsed. The photos of finished installations-one with the filter upsidedown and the other sideways-promised to be very messy. Making such an installation vibration free is a big job. There is an attractive side to this. If you do this, make sure you do it right. Scrap those 30" grey hoses. Kira

 

Kira -

You are right to be concerned about vibration and the fittings and line being done just right. Nothing could be more catastrophic than engine oil failure - and it would happen in the blink of an eye. Before you could react to the engine oil light it would be too late. All lines would be braided stainless by me, and Summit racing sells some nice lines with fittings that would fill the bill. I can guarantee that they would not vibrate loose - they are swedged on. Also note that the upside down filter in the photo montage would drain before you removed it, especially so if you had an impeller pump to remove the oil through the dipstick tube - not as silly as it would seem at first. The newest Volvos have the oil filteer mounted "upside down" on top of the engine.

One thing that frustrates me about Volvo's canister type filter is that there is no way of drainng it. Even Volkswagen has incorporated a petcock on their canister so you can drain the filter before unscrewing it. I guess this could be a retrofit. The big issue would be finding a bypass that would correctly adapt to the oil filter canister in the engine bloack. No one seems to carry it. Or do they? Has anyone looked for one? On the other end, mounting the remote oil filter and bracket - that's easy. It could be verysolidly mounted to the engine compartment in a number of locations. It's the part on the engine block that's the bugger.....

 

Hello, I went to the TransDapt company's website and saw that thier remote mounts will accept only spin-on filters. The threads for the plastic canisters for newer Volvos would require cutting threads in a much deeper casting. Kira

 

Kira - we would need an adapter before mounting a spin-on remote filter kit. Too bad no one seems to make a quality adapter like this one for Porsche...

http://www.lnengineering.com/spinonfilteradapter.html

Though I did e-mail them and ask if they had any leads.

 

I haven't paid much attention to my oil pan lately, so I may be off base with this, but out of curiosity I did a google search for "remote oil filter adapter volvo" and came up with this...

http://www.volvopentashop.com/Catalo...8040/12726.png

No measurements listed, but it makes sense to me that a marine application is where you would find something that already exists for a Volvo.

 

Sadly, the Volvo Penta models have spin-on filters already. This does not accomplish what we want - a converstion from Canister to spin-on and a remote mount. Also, the Volvo Penta remote mount for the filters are exquisitely expensive.....