I follow this guy pretty often. He cut open a lot of the big name filters to compare their designs. Flow rates were not included. 18 minute video but worth watching.
All his video's are interesting. Mostly all new car stuff but he gets into tools. Some of the tool to find a short or battery drain they make today are interesting.
If you did that comparison on the filters for your particular car and cut up 3 or 4 different make filters, it would take a long time to pay for all the ones cut up with the savings buying the cheaper one.
Not useful information without flow testing them and seeing the particulate p***-through...what about FRAM, Quaker State, Valvoline, etc?
I dont suffer from oil filter OCD. Especially when the car you drive didn't have one in the first place.
My daily has 460,000 miles on it running mostly Fram filters and conventional Valvoline 10W-30 or 10W-40 without issues. Just recently one valve cover gasket was replaced but other than that the engine has never been opened up. Now that Fram is likely gone forever I'll just buy the lowest price filter that's available locally. Lynn
Amen to that Il keep my thoughts to myself on the usual outcomes of this topic, but folks don't half get hung up on what's written on a box lol!
Your engine needs oil and an oil filter. The best thing you can do is to change both regularly, no matter the brand. Here's a question to play with the heads of those that stress so much over which oil filter to use. If you use a good filter that can remove the smallest particulates, will it filter out the all-important zinc additive...??? Bet you won't be able to sleep now.
He wears his hair like my great grandma did. I hate man buns! It’s always been my understanding that there are only about 4 or 5 filter manufacturers in the world. If you cut them open after they have been in service for 3000 miles I’ll bet they look much different.
I doubt when you see two to four filters all built in the same country, and all look identical, that you're going to see zero flow differences. Might see differences in completely different designs, but not when you cut them open and they're identical.
> He wears his hair like my great grandma did. I hate man buns!> Yeah. Old fashioned too. These days manly geezers gotta sport pony tails to pretend they're hip & know where it's at.
I don't think he was saying not to run a filter. He was making the point that some here obsess too much. Just put a filter on it, change it and the oil regularly, and call it good.......
I'm not being critical, just making a point. One moment in my life I will always remember is when my dad took me along to "Lawrence's Garage" in Plymouth, Minnesota to see about having the engine in my mom's '51 Ford overhauled. I remember vividly a poster in the office with a slogan like "Need an Engine Overhaul?", along with a stylized picture of a '40's era car and a depiction of an odometer showing 45,000 miles. I'll admit it was probably an old poster; Lawrence, the owner, was like that. As a result, my dad did have the typical "ring 'n valve" done (to the tune of $187). It turned out well (for me anyway), because when I inherited the car a couple of years later, the "engine rebuild" was still fresh enough that I had the fastest "shoebox" in school.
No. The additive is normally zinc dialkyldithiophosphate (ZDDP). Its a liquid itself, and is soluble in oil. No particles of zinc floating around to get filtered out. Of course, if you own an EK Holden, you could leak all that ZDDP out over time. If there ain't no oil under it, there ain't no oil in it. Cheers, Harv
I could not have delivered my comments with my tongue pushed any more forcefully into my cheek..........
Sorry mate... I missed the irony. I live in the hills and don't get into town real often. Use small words with me, and speak slowly. Sometimes people need to draw me pictures Cheers, Harv
But I think if you tried running the words "zinc dialkyldithiophosphate (ZDDP)" through your oil filter, you'd plug it up!
Hey @Harv , are you a member of the FB-EK Holden Car Club of NSW? If so, where are you at the moment?
Sadly, I'm not a member of the club. I work away from home a lot, so don't get the chance for some stuff, including clubs. Been 20 years since I could have a dog . I'm away for work at the moment, so no chance of going to the FB/EK Nationals in Stanthorpe. The photos posted on the FB/EK Forum look good though. Cheers, Harv
I just use manufacturer recommended filters. Mopar brand on mine and my dad's Dodge vans, motorcraft on the wife's ot Ford, AC Delco on the 53 Chevy, and AC Delco on my ot Chevy lol
Some of us old geezers have been sporting long hair in a pony tail for over five decades because we're that committed. Or is is should be committed? Never been hip and don't know where whatever is at but hey, at least I'm still breathing so I'll keep that pony tail a bit longer (no matter how thin it is...lol). No pretense at all, it's just me. Got a lot of **** for wearing it over the years, mostly from people who believe in freedom.
That video was poorly done. Sort of a lazy attempt to get his view count up. There’s really no information like actual filter area, media efficiency, drainback valve material, can burst strength, etc that would be in a legitimate oil filter comparison. This one is strictly clickbait. The only “revealing” data is that oil filter manufacturers sell their wares through multiple outlets with different labeling and graphics, but we already knew that, didn’t we?
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