This Tech Tip focuses on remote oil filter locations. It is one of a series of Tech Tips we publish to advance the knowledge base in the Industrial engine field. Tech Tips for other oil-related questions include:
Tech Tip #14: Using Oil Analysis to Avoid Downtime – Part 1,- Tech Tip #25: Break-In Oil: Why Old Is Better;
- Tech Tip #23: Oil Filters: Capacity Counts, and
- Tech Tip #71: How Often Should I Change My Lube Oil?
Tech Tip #14: As we noted in Tech Tip #33: Disposing of Used Lube Oil, a lot of the calls coming into our Tech Support people are about oil. This Foley Tech Tip suggests 6 different reasons why you should consider installing a remote oil filter location kit on your Perkins or Deutz engine. Our Foley remote mount kits come with all the hardware, color-coded Goodyear® hoses (red in, black out), filter base, etc.
The most common reasons to install a kit are to:
1. Facilitate oil changes
Moving the oil filter off the engine and onto a bulkhead should make future oil changes much easier. We suggest that you record the date and the oil weight in your cell phone, maybe even with a calendar reminder and/or write it with a permanent marker on the new filter to make sure you don’t miss the next oil change.
2. Increase oil capacity
If you install a remote oil filter system with a larger filter or even two filters you can increase the lube oil capacity by up to a half-gallon. Running a half-gallon more oil in your system helps with lubrication and distribution of contaminants, heat, etc….
3. Increase cooling
Lots of engines run borderline hot, e.g. the 4.108 Marine Perkins. Or they are air-cooled engines which in all reality are oil-cooled, e.g. the Deutz 912 series Wisconsin VH series. Increasing the lube oil capacity with a remote filter kit by up to a half-gallon means cooler oil as the oil is given a little longer to cool down/more oil to distribute the heat through. 
4. Cleaner Oil
If you increase the filtration levels by using larger than stock filters in your remote system you will have more square inches of filter media. (Cleaner oil is better oil). People running Perkins 4108 or Perkins 4236 marine engines, should consider installing a Perkins 6354 oil filter to get this benefit.
5. Run two oil filters
Install a remote filter and you now can run two separate oil filters, each as large as one quart. Two separate filters are better than one large filter because if one becomes plugged the other filter is still functional.
6. Can help when swapping in a replacement engine and the stock filter is in the way
The popular Perkins 4.236 and 1004 series engines are no longer in production. If you have bought a remanufactured one to replace your existing engine and the oil filter is on the wrong side you have two choices:
- You can drop the oil pan and switch the internal oil pick-up tube plumbing and pressure relief valve from one side to the other and then reinstall the oil pan and gasket.
- Or much more easily, just install a remote filter kit.
