Hello everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster.

I want to add a coolant bypass and an oil bypass to my 2005 6.0. Has anyone tried the combo kit from dieseloilbypasskits.com? It comes with a bracket to mount the oil bypass filter and the coolant filter from the alternator mount. It does make for a fairly crowded area under the hood, but I like that the runs for all of the lines are pretty short, and the kit comes with stainless braided lines for the oil bypass.

I wonder how much difference it makes having the oil filter under the hood, in the hot engine compartment? I know that only about 5% of the oil is being run through the bypass at a time, so it would seem that any cooling offered by mounting elsewhere would be minimal?

They also offer a frame mount kit that looks like it comes with a bracket and also includes stainless lines. I've thought about going that way and frame mounting the oil filter and going with something like a Sinister coolant kit.

Any thoughts or advice would be genuinely appreciated.

 

The frame mount would work, or I've seen guys mount the oil filter behind the grill in front of the radiator. It's almost the same location as the coolant filter, just on the other side.

 

I'm playing with the idea of adding a trans cooler inline with the bypass filter, pretty easy, they make Tcs with AN fittings, just go into a trans cooler the to the bypass, it would cool that part of oil pretty good.