RE: oil color

From: STRICKLAND, Tate (tstricklan@shl.com)
Date: Fri Jul 24 1998 - 08:27:04 EDT


So THAT'S why the manual only recommends changing the filter at every
other oil change - I've always wondered about that. I think I might
actually start doing it now :-)

Tate

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Ludwick [SMTP:gludwick@csi.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 1998 4:23 PM
To: Dakota Newsgroup
Subject: DML: oil color

>>Hey Gary,
isn't that the job of the oil filter??? If the filter isn't doing
IT'S
job, then your oil should be black. But the oil is there for
lubrication, not cleaning the engine internals, that's only a
by-product
of the fluid movement. I say buy the best filter you can, and your
oil
should look as good coming out of the block as it did going in. IMHO
anyway. <<

Sounds logical but it ain't so. Combustion by-products - including
gases -
aren't caught by the oil filter...and will contaminate the
oil...turning it
dark brown or black.
BTW, once had an automotive engineer tell me that the oil filter is
the most
unnecessary part on a modern combustion engine....that most engines
would
run as well and last as long without one. Not an engineer myself, but
I
respect that person's knowledge.

Gary

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