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Hi Renate,
Are you getting genuine toy filters from the reputable off-road shop or
something else. If you cut reputable pattern part filters apart you will
find (well I have yet to see otherwise) a 2 micron pleated paper bypass
stage which will rapidly blind with soot, then you just have a smallish
full flow filter on the engine, the toy filter has a stacked disc media
bypass stage. It looks a bit like layers of good quality cartrdge paper
2mm thick stacked up into a pile 20mm or so tall and compressed heavily
together, to get through the media the the oil must ooze it's way
through a large volume of filter media, this gives it much greater soot
capacity before blinding. They also arrange the paper pleats in the full
flow stage in a strange way to increase the surface area. If you cut one
open and have a look you will see the diffrence is very obvious when
compared to aftermarket filters. The other filters on my truck I use
fram filters but not the oil filter that will only ever be OEM. At
10,000km my oil analysis only showd 0.2% soot (less than 2% is normal)
so the filter is doing it's job and the engine is running pretty clean.
Cheers,
Craig.
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Are you getting genuine toy filters from the reputable off-road shop or
something else. If you cut reputable pattern part filters apart you will
find (well I have yet to see otherwise) a 2 micron pleated paper bypass
stage which will rapidly blind with soot, then you just have a smallish
full flow filter on the engine, the toy filter has a stacked disc media
bypass stage. It looks a bit like layers of good quality cartrdge paper
2mm thick stacked up into a pile 20mm or so tall and compressed heavily
together, to get through the media the the oil must ooze it's way
through a large volume of filter media, this gives it much greater soot
capacity before blinding. They also arrange the paper pleats in the full
flow stage in a strange way to increase the surface area. If you cut one
open and have a look you will see the diffrence is very obvious when
compared to aftermarket filters. The other filters on my truck I use
fram filters but not the oil filter that will only ever be OEM. At
10,000km my oil analysis only showd 0.2% soot (less than 2% is normal)
so the filter is doing it's job and the engine is running pretty clean.
Cheers,
Craig.
[Email address removed] wrote:
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