welders on trucks and oil changes

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I have been twisting my brain on mounting my sa-250 on my truck with minimal clearance and still being able to change and add oil. After a ton of good (few), bad ( many) and indifferent ideas I have decided the best way to tackle this is a remote oil filter. The filler tube is no sweat. My welder is has perkins d3.152 so the filter ends up on the cab side mounted sideways on my bed, controls facing driver side. Pulling my bottles, and being a three armed midget to change my filter doesn't excite me.Anybody built or bought a setup like this. I have a ford 350 PU with a 460 that I did this to but its under the hood, I looked and didn't find a setup for the Perkins.Basically Stainless steel braides hoses to a convienent location on the truck.Looking for any pieces parts as I would rather buy than machine it all, I could machine it but the time is just a pain, and I have a dozen other items I am sorting out right now. Hoses no sweat...House of Hose in spokane can make what I want.Pictures are good if you got them.Thanx
Reply:Most trucks around here have their machines mounted on a slide out to make for easy service. Here is a link to a place that builds skids with slides. www.sthwelding.comMark
Reply:I brazed a ball valve to oil pan and burnt a hole in floor of truck to drain oil in bucker. seeing it had to be changed every fifty hours. Good luck Jim
Reply:I have the oil drain already set up, I am just fussing on the filter. Pretty much think I got it figured out, pretty much same as on my cummins motor.
Reply:With some more thought on this I see one minor ( could be major ) fly in this ointment.If your having service work done and or moving the welder to another truck, its not self contained.
Reply:If all else fails how hard is to pull the truck under a hoist and pull the welder?Vantage 500's LN-25's, VI-400's, cobramatics, Miller migs, synch 350 LX, Powcon inverters, XMT's, 250 Ton Acurrpress 12' brake, 1/4" 10' Atlantic shear,Koikie plasma table W/ esab plasmas. marvel & hyd-mech saws, pirrana & metal muncher punches.
Reply:be easier to weld 4 small steel wheels like on a floor jack ( with small axle of course ) on the bottom of the welder frame. Then weld a fold down ring on the bed so you could use a come along to drag it back about 18 inches. Thinking about it, depends on reels and tool box locations.I thought about the hoist idea, but when your on the road thats not practical either. Got a month to sort it out welder is not ready to put on the truck yet.
Reply:For the oil drain on an old sa200 I had one time -  I found a fitting somewhere that would screw into the pan and with an adapter fitting I clamped on a 3/8 hose.  Put a 3/8 bolt in the end of the hose to seal it off, and secured it behind the starter wires with a loose fitting wire tie. (?).  When I changed the oil all I had to do was pull the bolt out of the hose and feed the hose down through a hole I had drilled in the bed of the truck then put a pan under the truck to catch the used oil.  My hose was about 16" long I guess.  I didn't have a valve because stored my hose higher than the pan and plugged it off with a bolt.As for your remote oil filter idea you could simply connect hoses or steel lines and put the filter wherever you needed it I guess.  I can't see how that would hurt.  Plumbing the lines so they would self drain might be a plus even if they drained toward the filter.  I'm not sure how that would be possible going under the oil pan then back up again. lol.  But I  don't think a remote oil filter would cause any problems.Good luck man