After reading the responses to my posting on paper versus felt filters, I'm
thinking maybe the best solution is to replace the stock filter arrangement
with a spin-on filter. It occurs to me that the increased oil pressure
associated with felt filters might be due to oil passing by the filter without
actually going through it. In the case of the filter I recently removed, it
was
crammed so tightly up against the filter canister, that I could see no way
oil could have passed through the filter. Maybe with the paper filter, there
is an actual passage of oil through the filter element, and thus a lowering of
the oil pressure With a spin-on filter, there would certainly be a passage
of oil through the filtering element, as the internals are rigid. I would
think, too, that the modern materials in a spin-on filter would allow a
filtering action without reducing the oil pressure.
Any thoughts on this?
Bill Wilkman
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