oil filter grommets
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:27 pm
--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Bogdan Swider wrote:
IRT to examining used filters, Do you folks take a box cutter and cut the pleats out of the std. filter and examine what the filter has been catching? Take the box cutter/sharp knife and cut the paper filter element down to the internal screen, at the extreme ends of the paper element. It will peel off the internal screen like an accordian and you can look at the crap it is catching. Gear wiskers and piston parts, etc. Mostly it will look like aluminum dust, etc.-- you can rake your magnet across the metal shavings, particles and dust and see if how much of it will be iron shavings/gear wiskers, etc. A low profile magnetic drain plug is useful as well for catching ferous dust...and freaking broken dohickey parts left in the engine by the PO. revmaaatin.> > Of course their literature presented data that said it filters better than > paper. I don't notice any difference between it and paper as far as crud, > metal shavings etc. > > Bogdan