Re: Oil Filters

Posted by Tim Cole On 2012/2/28 20:18:33

I have seen bone stock original motors with the plumbing backwards.

It is absurd to have the inlet on the bottom because there are no settlement properties that way. Incidental dirt just falls back toward the lifters. The only reason to do so is to reduced bypass filtering for the sake of the lifters. However, the lack of a drain plug creates the need to plumb it backwards so that only clean oil sits inside the thing when the element is changed.

The filter itself is a joke. About the only thing it does is create headaches for people who don't know the secret to keep it from leaking.

It might be better to just plug the lines and send full bypass to the lifters.

Proper bypass filter systems pass oil through a triple stage system to super clean oil. This was the concept behind the original PureOilator. That is what is used on modern diesel bypass which supplements the full flow system.

The Packard bypass filter is pretty much useless.