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Coolant Filter for 6.0

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#1 ·
Which coolant filter is most recommended? Looking at the Dieselite or Sinister design versus the IPR design. Looks like the IPR would be worth the extra money. Any other filters, links, out there that anyone recommends?

Any recommendations, advice or experiences are appreciated.
 
#2 ·
I personally like my Sinister one. I have installed a couple other brands on other trucks, and most of them are about the same, just depends on style and color you like.
 
#3 ·
This question is like asking which flavor ice cream people like; your gonna get a rainbow of answers. That being said, I have had the Dieselsite unit mounted to my frame rail for 6 years, I use NAPA 4070 filters.

.....oh, and just for the record, Mocha Almond Fudge:D
 
#4 ·
Well choosing between the sinister or the dieselite would be like the ice cream flavor. I'm thinking the design of the IPR puts it in a different food group.
 
#13 ·
I passed on the IPR system. It's still just a bypass system, even if you set it up to what they call the 'full flow' system. A bypass is all you really need anyway. I think it's false advertising to call the IPR a full flow system......it only 'fully filters' the coolant headed to the heater core, which is NOT all the coolant the system is pumping. The heater circuit is in effect simply another 'bypass' system in the cooling schematics, to provide heat. A 'true' full flow complete design that filters all your coolant all the time, would require a large filter at the water pump inlet or outlet....and do to space limitations, that isn't going to happen.

For your money, you're better off to get one of the better priced simple bypass kits, with the ball valves next to the filter housing to make filter changes cleaner. Once any contaminants are cleaned out, the bypass will keep it clean.....unless you one day blow out an oil cooler, then you have a real mess.
 
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#7 ·
Thanks, so much help. Gee I can't believe I didn't think of that before.
 
#8 ·
I went with the Performance Machine filter. Looks good taste great less filling and easy to install
 
#10 ·
Thanks, this looks like the same bypass design as the sinister or dieselite. Does come with ball valves included too. Did you consider the IPR design at all, looks as if the IPR is fairly new.

I'm in Colo too, but a couple hundred mile north of ya.
 
#9 ·
Anybody that actually went with the IPR want to give their opinon to as why you went with this. Also anybody pay the extra for the manifold. Does this manifold appears to hook up directly to the oil cooler?
 
#12 ·
There are also many threads on it, but the ipr coolant filter is the best on the market.
 
#21 ·
It sounds like you have made up your mind in getting the ipr filter, as I said it is the best coolant filter by far.
The manifold is mostly just for a cleaner easier install, I'll have to look at the flow path to see if it filters all of the coolant going into the egr cooler or not.
I can tell you no coolant filter filters the coolant before it goes into the oil cooler unless you are running one of ipr's remote oil cooler kits but that's a whole nother long story.

I had the ipr oil cooler kit, manifold and high flow coolant filter on my truck, I am now running the ipr coolant filter without the manifold and a oil cooler kit from bulletproof deisel, and this is the set up I recamend to everyone.

But I'll check the flow path of the manifold and get back to you.
 
#22 ·
Oh and btw it dosnt filter the coolant going into the heater core when installed te recamended way (if not using the manifold), it gets its coolant SUPLY from the heater hose but the filtered coolant is then directed to the hose under the degas bottle.
 
#24 ·
I was looking at their installation schematic.....they do say that if you set it up as a 'full flow filter', you will lose heat to the heater core if the filter gets plugged. I believe if you set it up the other way they suggest, as more of a typical bypass system, it won't affect the heat.
 
#23 ·
You know....if you spend the money on the Bullet Proof Diesel oil cooler kit, and you have an EGR delete......even a simple bypass coolant filter is overkill. There's no oil cooler to get plugged by coolant, and with the egr deleted it eliminates that issue there as well. Hell, you could even run Ford Gold without a problem.....but I'd still stick with an ELC. I'm looking at BPD's manifold.....trying to think of a cheaper way to do it. The money in their system is because of that manifold. A lot of work into that piece of art. I have a chunk of aluminum, a milling machine and a couple lathes; I might just make my own manifold. Note: With the EGR deleted, there is no need for coolant to pass through the manifold at all. Might be better to simply block off the coolant passage coming up from the block.
 
#25 ·
That's true for the most part but I still feel better getting that crap out of the engine, radiator and heater.....not to mention I don't care for the idea of sand going across my $320 bpd water pump.
 
#29 ·
Yes, overkill. The two fuel filters, filter at different levels. The factory oil filter is good for what, 20 microns? Most wear is from crap that is 5-10 microns I think. The bypass filters from Amsoil filter everything down to 2 microns, and that includes soot. So although these systems have 2 filters, they are filtering at 2 different levels. (Same for the transmission as well.) There's no need to filter the coolant down to 2 microns..... the passages in the oil cooler are much larger than that.
 
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