Spin on filter cooler conversion build.

Cooler filter number 2. 

This is the second one of these I made, the first one worked fine, but I didn't like it, the spin on mount looked a bit 'slabish'; one of the mounting screws was a bit hard to get to and the hoses were a bit of a jumble 

This time around, I routed the inlet hose to the side of  the spin on mount, so the hose is out of site.  The engine mounts have a protusion at the front to take the cooler plate and the engine mounts protrude further back toward the engine..

A number of parts I made for the first iteration remain:  the original filter housing cover plate I spun up for the lright engine cover, the stainless barbs and the cooler itself.

I first spun up a new spin on filter base, rounding off the edges  and leaving a concol tower on tower on top in which to fix the outlet inlet barb.  The inlet barb is a pressd in brass fitting on the side of the spin on mount.

The engine mounts have a protusion at front on which to mount the cooler mounting plate.

The cooler mounting plate is now just a flat piece of 3mm plate into which I inserted four thicker gromets.  I also spun up four stainless T nuts to ensert into the gromets to prevent them from being squished too much.

The inlet plate on the right engine cover was a carry over from the first build.  Rather than just screw an angled barb into the original filter cover plate, I spun up a new plate with a raised centre into which I pressed an 11mm barb. 

Edited By Tony sacc on 19/08/2023 00:48:25

For this mod I had to modify the right side engine cover by removing a blanking plug at the front and drilling and tapping 40mm down the oil galley leading to the pump. A little problematic as the oil galley is at an odd angle to the engine cover on three axis.

The XS650 has two oil filters, one in the sump and one in the right side engine cover. Filters is a bit of a misnomer, rather than filters they are strainers, hence the conversion to a better filtering medium.

Well, no interest here in classic bikes so, I shall depart.

Edited By Tony sacc on 19/08/2023 23:21:08

Nice work. Prototyping and getting back in there to refine the job can be frustrating at times so well done for sticking at it.

No interest personally, but there are quite a few people on here who are. You might find it worthwhile to reflect upon why those people haven't replied to your posts.

Andrew