oil filters

[Rawze]

here we go...

here is some reality check...

Rawze Wrote:Anything but a genuine fleetguard oil filter could eventually cost you your engine!. - Shocking as that sounds, I have seen it a dozen times already!.

The O-ring in most secondary brands of oil filters is prone to getting sucked into the engine block where it sits for a year or so, starts to crumble, then almost always ends up clogging one of the piston cooling jets, taking out a piston.

Baldwin filters have been particularly notorious for this.

Fleetguard had this problem too, but have since fixed it in the LF14000NN and newer model filters. There is a reason that the o-ring has long rubber flappers/retainers on it when looking down into the newer style filters.

I am not sure if these companies designs have changed since this started happening, but I have not particularly trusted any aftermarket brand of oil filters since.