watch carefully, take notes, and changing your oil filter and oil regardless of brand about every 8-11K miles
max is a good idea(ideally change oil and filter a bit more frequently, but yeah reality tends to put off oil changes )
longer oil filters with synthetic filter medium, and much larger surface areas internally tend to work better and LONGER
as the medium slowly gets partially clogged with micro debris, thus frequent oil filter changes to replace partially clogged oil filters and replacing oil that's been repeatedly subjected to heat/cool cycles and contamination from combustion cycles helps engine durability as does frequent oil changes and replacing oil filters
If you gain anything from these tests at least learn two things,
the filter brand and model and QUALITY, of construction and materials used, DOE'S MATTER,
and changing your oil and filter more frequently is generally a very good idea!
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yes the oil filter you sellect does make a differance
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magnets
heres an old post "Any source for the magnets Grumpy? what do you use? " http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.a ... SH&cat=167 magnets are ceramic and glass hard, don,t try to drill or grind them, as they can shatter or http://www.magnet4sale.com/samarium-cobalt-discs/ proper magnets trap...
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placing a large ring magnet on the base of the oil filter ,while in use, can at least in theory, help trap fine metallic debris in the filter
BUYING A TOOL and DOING SOME PERSONAL LOOKING AT THE INTERNAL PARTS HELPS
you might be amazed at what youll see with a tool that allows a close visual inspection of a filters internal components rather than makes un-informed random guesses.
actually knowing what your dealing with is helpful,reading some links and doing research is also much more likely to produce informed answers than engaging in a (IS TOO! VS IS NOT! ) style discussion with someone else whos equally un-informed
its basically a heavy duty can opener , or an oil filter cutter , is designed to make it easy to internally inspect oil filters, by allowing you to remove the filter element , from inside the surrounding (CAN) for close visual inspection.
have you seen this
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