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Message: <blockquote data-quote="peebeeaitch" data-source="post: 64734" data-attributes="member: 8318">30 March 2013Spent the day shopping for parts for the remote oil filter manifolds. Managed to get the stuff to make one from two shops. Also managed to find the filter Fleetguard LF726, Fram C164 filter.Off I went to manufacture the remote manifolds and this is what I came up with:<img src="http://bobcat.thesouthpole.co.za/BloodSweatAndTears/2013-03-30_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />31 March 2013Started with the wiring in anticipation of the still un-arrived external voltage regulator/rectifier. BTW, the engine grime is almost impossible to remove with a cold water washer. I have sprayer, resprayed, de-greased, washed and tried to clean this so many times. Combined with the freezing weather,  I've just given up.Here are the connections to the original equipment:<img src="http://bobcat.thesouthpole.co.za/BloodSweatAndTears/2013-03-31_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The motor went back in. I tried to re-use the bolts that had come out, but they were too short. The new, longer ones I bought were also too short, so I came up with this plan to compress the new rubber bushes a little, enough to get the nut on and tighten up:<img src="http://bobcat.thesouthpole.co.za/BloodSweatAndTears/2013-03-31_03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Notice the new looped line for the remote oil filter mounting, ready to be cut to length.<img src="http://bobcat.thesouthpole.co.za/BloodSweatAndTears/2013-03-31_04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Pretty nifty if you ask me.So here is the motor back home:<img src="http://bobcat.thesouthpole.co.za/BloodSweatAndTears/2013-03-31_05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I think I am fairly mechanical. One of the ways to send me off the deep end is for me to ask a highly non-mechanical person to help, and then to be offered all sorts of alternative ways of doing a job that I have planned meticulously in my mind. You know the "can I make a suggestion" type of suggestions that take hours for the non-mechanical person to explain, and hours to explain why it will not work. Which then leads to 2 minutes of progress followed by another "Can I make a suggestion?" For this reason, I put the motor in myself. Luckily it is possible to get one's hand around the left side of the motor to align the coupling:<img src="http://bobcat.thesouthpole.co.za/BloodSweatAndTears/2013-03-31_06.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I had been contemplating a location for the remote oil filter. While aligning the coupling, I found an easy to get to location that seemed ideal:<img src="http://bobcat.thesouthpole.co.za/BloodSweatAndTears/2013-03-31_07.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Notice the lack of anything remote about my oil filter. Seems like it's an easy job to change the oil filter if one removes the battery.I emptied the oil reservoir and I think this will become some of the chain case oil. It looks really clean and I can't imagine that the requirements of the chain case oil are that onerous.<img src="http://bobcat.thesouthpole.co.za/BloodSweatAndTears/2013-03-31_08.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Next weekend I hope to have the electrical stuff sorted enough to be able to fire her back up. Plus of course getting hold of the lines to the control valve that I couldn't get to. Then we have the testing of the pumps (which is why this story started in the first place!)Larger projects are setting the idle position of the yank-ems, a new fuel tank, and the rest of the electrical system.</blockquote>

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