Re: Trasko Oil Filter - 1/10th of Micron cleaning

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 18:47:49 EST


Terrible Tom <SilverEightynine@earthlink.net> wrote:
[...]
: If these things are as good as they claim to be - 10K without an oil
: change, why have I not heard about them until just now? I am very
: tempted to invest in one. I would love to do a comparison between a
: filter such as the Napa Gold after 3K miles and their filter after their
: 10K interval... send them off to a lab for analasys. Before I would
: dare run my engine 10K without an oil change, I would want to make
: damned sure their filter can do what they say it can.

   I would be wary about going 10K without an oil change, except
maybe with a good quality synthetic and with very easy driving
conditions. Even if the filter is 100% effective at filtering out
the dirt, the additives and such in the oil get "used up". Dirt in
the oil is not the only reason for changing it.

-- 

-Jon-

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