Best oil for FJ20T

[Captiva Fan]

To simplify things & not over-explain, my engine came with your normal garden-variety remote oil-cooler, and a filter that mounts in the usual place at the block. So all I really added to mine was the remote filter; for the same reason as you say it'd be a good thing on your car.

Actually, if I could've done it, I would've fitted the oil-cooler sandwich adapter at the remote filter. I couldn't do that with my block though, 'cos the filter-mount is designed to have the sandwich-adapter under the filter, so the hollow threaded-rod the filter screws onto is too long for just the filter without the spacing of the adapter underneath.

Sounds like you may be able to run a sandwich-adapter at a remote oil-filter though? I presume it's no worse an idea than having TWO sets of pressurised oil-lines in the engine-bay. Problem then is you probably need custom lines made up, rather than being able to use standard bits from a wreck.

[Babalouie]

Originally posted by Stnzaboy
Yeah so what did u do?? Grind stuff off or get the compact sandwich plate??

Forg i read about that sandwich plate with coolant flowing through it and thought it wasn't a 1/2 bad idea...did ur car come with one at all?? The biggest problem with the FJ20 is the oil filter is right down under the inlet manifold and right next to the dizzy...U can only just get at it from the top and struggle to get at it from underneath...So a remote oil filter would be a good thing

My sandwich plate had a fair bit of metal ground off it. But then you also have to remember that the sandwich plate will have 90 degree oil fittings coming out of it, and it takes a hell of a lot of juggling to make sure the fittings and hose don't foul on the dizzy.

One thing that you really must look out for, is that the dizzy has some protrusions that may get snagged on an oil fitting. So when you tighten the sandwich plate, the oil fitting nicely rotates the dizzy that little bit. The next thing you know, the thing's pinging its nut off and a week later you're putting new pistons in it (not naming any names to which this happened!)

Of course, if those bloody jokers at Nissan hadn't hidden the whole bloody lot under the inlet manifold it prolly wouldn't have happened in the first place :D