D2 Oil filter

[Packrat]

Good Morning;
I'm doing my first oil filter change on D25U4467 ("Irma" as in Irma La Duce) and I went to my Wix dealer and they gave me their no. 51161 as a replacement part. When I removed the original I see that it has a rather intricate outer filter that is washable and a throw away inner filter. The Wix 51161 replaces both of them. Does anyone feel that this is an unacceptable move? Thanks.
Packrat

[SJ]

It appears your tractor still has the old original by-pass setup in it yet & no you don,t just put the one filter in it as there is some parts that has to be changed over to be able to use the full flow element. I don,t just have a listing of the parts needed but Old Magnet should have a listing of them. At the shop I changed dozens of them over and at that time Cat had a kit to do it but I believe only separate parts is only available anymore from Cat unless you,d be lucky that a dealer would still have a kit.

[Old Magnet]

The full flow conversion filter is a Wix # 51161.
The standard replacement for the early by-pass filter is a Wix # 51165.
To convert takes the attached parts.

[Packrat]

SJ and Old Magnet;
Thank you. I was hoping you two would reply.
Packrat

[Jack]

Search back a few pages in this forum. We discussed all this not all that long ago. There was some good info but I didn't ear tag it because all my filters are the full flow already, except the wrecking yard engine I'm working on now and I got a complete filter housing assembly from the yard to change it over. that's something you might consider if there's a Cat wrecker near by.

Jack