What is inside a Td5 centrifugal oil filter? 

Never heard of a centrifugal oil filter before so there you go. Learn summit new everyday, and also learned not to bother trying to get into one! Quite effective certainly.

That reminds me i have to order a new one for my next service. As it takes a while here in australia. Love all your vids, you have been a big help with holding my landys together 👍

Hi Mike that type of filter has been used by Scania trucks since the early 70s as a teenager when we helped my father and uncle to service our scania 110 model and 140 v8 we would take out the centrifugal filter and dismantle it as it was made to disassemble and use a knife to lose that black stuff 😂😂, as that is the carbon to keep the engine oil at its best, love watching you Chanel as I have a 110 defender and have learnt a few things from you. All the best from Ireland

That reminded me of me poking around with a screwdriver. "Oh look, a hole. Oh another one, and another. Oh, were is that red liquid coming from. Oh b*ll*cks, where are the plasters.

ive had a td5 defender for five year and not done any work on it yet everytime i put a battery on it it just starts and it sounds lovely i have a couple of 300 tdis which i love but i am deffo gonna put a td5 i have laying around into my daughters motor i am gonna build for her on a range rover classic chassis

I'm a agricultural engineer in the UK some Massey Ferguson tractors have them for the gearbox filter and there designed to come apart just unscrew the head of the filter do a good job never had to replace one just give them a good clean also run a disco 2 td5 as my workhorse change oil and both filters every 5 thousand miles and use 5w40 not 30 better oil pressure keep up the good work

Made by the Glacier Filter company in Ilminister, Somerset. I used to be the Quality Manager at the launch of this filter, known as GF016. Glacier made a series of Bypass centrifugal filters in various sizes for Massey Fergusson, Scania , Renault trucks, Wartsila marine engines. Filter was invented by Glacier, working in bypass taking approx 10% of the oil, spinning in excess of 6000 rpm, the soot particles in the oil , less than 1 micron in size, are spun out into a cake, which on most variants can be removed and burnt.

One of my first vehicles was a Honda K4 250cc bile , sorry bike ! Anyway it had a centrifuge oil filter that was spun on a shaft not conveniently mounted behind the clutch body . There was no other oil filter if I remember rightly , senile old git that I am ! You just changed the oil regularly and sang happy birthday . The filter I assume was a main dealer handled issue , but me and my mates did not trust , in other words could not afford , bike dealers so we learnt things ourselves . My oh my did that filter work , it needed a special tool to grip the castellated nut ( or a sawed up socket ) to remove , but you needed a stiff drink to get over what had been 'filtered ' out ! I reckon it would not take much effort to copy this idea as a modification . Another , much easier , quicker and less risky mod is to use magnets attached to your renewable oil filter . The downside is that magnets only attract ferrous particles , so no carbon chunks get caught . I remember a mate , who was very , very clever , not being able to replace his Triumph Midget oil filter . For ages he lay in the street in the rain cussing whilst failing to wind the new filter on . Yes , he had the old rubber seal left on the filter mounting ! Bloody hell John could drive that Midget though !

Blimey, I would never have thought just how effective they are. Be interesting to know how long it had been in. When I replace my filters I use a tin opener to check regular filter but never even thought about opening up the centrifugal one. Looks like I’ve been looking in the wrong place to judge how worn my engine is!

Hi Mike, FYI on the Discovery TD5 they fit flat side down and the service intervals are every 12k miles/ 36k for the canister filter. Most owners do them more frequently. Always wondered what's inside. Regards from Shropsire UK

My head just got onto a crazy idea of retro fitting an oil filter to an LT77, I know there was a version with an oil cooler, so it could be fitted onto the ports for that? Would be interesting to see how much that would pic up.

The biggest issue is replacing the cap over the filter. The threads are notorious for stripping. I think the torque settings are c. 23nm. My TD5 has a M5x100 bolt and nut holding the cap in place as the threads were stripped by the previous owner (the RAF) and stuffed with Plumbers tape 😅

TD5 in Canada? 🤩 Happy Friday Mike 😀

If you cant hear them spinning down, time to change. Usually every second oil and filter change.

by removing the soot particles, which cannot be removed by normal oil filters, the life of the engine oil is greatly increased.

And this shit is more expensive then the other filters which is using on TD5.!

And they ,ake a cool noise when you turn the engine off, and they spin down.

Any idea on how fast it spins ?

Looks like it does nothing. Never changed it on my Defender because I didn't know about it 😂 my engine ran flawlessly like a Rolex until I swapped it with a 440 HP LS engine and 6 speed. The guy who bought the engine told me about it so he bought it cheap 😅 he still has the engine and very happy with it in fact 😶

This production is WAY, WAY, WAY over do! Centrifuges have been around for many many decades and yet we, the consumer, get very little information and essentially no marketing of the product. I'm looking for one for my 2015 Duramax, today I stopped by a performance diesel shop and he had never heard of one. but locating the right spot is a challenge. None the less, it's going to happen. The Chinese system is around $200 USD's, The German and USA versions run about $500 and that's if you can find one for your vehicle. I'm looking at Diesel Craft, they utilize a small air pump to push the oil back into the case. Most use gravity flow and I'm a fan of this however, some vehicles don't allow for this because of the under hood congestion.

scania do one on trucks which has a strip of paper which catches all crap there great

I have replaced some of these and some have been really noisy.

We have a td5, 230k on it…..sweet as a nut